[Karl Buhl]

Thank you. That seems to be the consensus with most of the YouTube comparisons I have viewed (although, not with your technical detail).

Cheers.

[Karl Buhl]

Great tips. Thank you.

[Karl Buhl]

Your method does work to solve my problem. (I have never used ‘conform lock’ previously.) My only regret here is that it appears I can’t select and conform-lock multiple clips simultaneously … I need to work through the timeline clip-by-clip.

Fantastic, however, that you have provided a solution.

Thank you,
Karl Buhl

[Karl Buhl]

Tod, thank you for the info about Brightsign.

For anyone who has a similar problem—trying to play your own edited 4K or HD MP4 videos through an A/V receiver for improved audio (vs. playing through a TV), I ended up purchasing the Dune-HD Magic 4K Plus. I’m very happy with this unit.

I connected the Dune-HD via HDMI out to the Marantz ‘media player’ HDMI in. The Dune Magic 4K instantly finds and plays the attached USB SSD drive. 4K playback is … 4K playback, and the audio through the Marantz is obviously better than connecting through the TV.

I did have one issue initially: when playing a video there was a 2-second video and audio blackout about 1-second into the video. Dune suggested resetting the video mode from ‘Auto’ to 4K 2160p 29Hz in setup. That change solved the initial black-screen blink. Videos now play immediately.

The Magic 4K Plus was less than $140 on Amazon.

[Karl Buhl]

Tim: To ensure you’re not overlooking the obvious: make sure DaVinci is using your graphics card as the primary processor (not your cpu). This can be configured in settings.

[Karl Buhl]

Hi Riccardo. Ideally, yes, I was looking for an XBOX app that would play 4K MP4 videos connected via an SSD USB. However, there are no apps that play 4K video (I have tried them all).

I am therefore researching hardware devices that will allow me to connect an SSD into my Marantz AV receiver via HDMI. (None of the Marantz units will directly play video.) Don’t need to stream anything from the media player; only need to access my personal MP4 videos.

Have decided to try this:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09J1CP529/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[Karl Buhl]

On the VHS side, several years ago I transferred decades of 8mm video cassettes to digital files. That was a head-scratcher to figure out how to capture all that old technology. Fortunately, I several old 8mm video cameras—but one of them had an obsolete firewire output. I ended up purchasing a FireWire card for my PC from Amazon. I had an old FireWire cable. The problem was finding a current driver, because the last time Windows included a FireWire driver was Windows 7. Eventually I found a FireWire driver on the net: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2970191

It was another challenge to find software that would drive the Sony camera for capture. These are the combinations that worked for me:

Older Sony 8mm video cameras: RGB out > Roxio RGB to USB adapter > Cyberlink software.

Sony 8mm video cameras with iLink: iLink out > FireWare card (see above) > Sony Vegas 14.

For what it’s worth.

Cheers.

[Karl Buhl]

OK, yes you did indicate a Mac. So much for my speed reading class. Have you tried decreasing the timeline playback resolution?

Edit Tab > Playback > Timeline Proxy Resolution > (Try “Half” or “Quarter”). This only affects timeline playback resolution, nothing else.

[Karl Buhl]

Also, are you using a graphics card, and have you updated your driver recently?

If you’re using a graphics card, have you pointed Davinci Resolve to the card as your primary GPU in Preferences? From the menu system:

> DaVinci Resolve > Preferences > System (at the top of the pop-up window) > Memory and GPU > Then point to your graphics card in the ‘GPU Configuration.’

[Karl Buhl]

When you’re in the color tab:

1. Select the clip that you want to copy the colors to.

2. Right-click on the clip from which you want to apply the colors, and click ‘Apply Grade.’

OR, check out “Power Grade” in various YouTube videos.