Paul Rosen
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I’ve been running the Ultra and am very impressed with the performance compared to the 2013 Trash Can it is replacing. It mostly eats through noise reduction effects like they are not in the timeline. I don’t think the Ultra is completely necessary for only doing HD work, but in my experience, it’s always good to buy the best you can afford at the time of your purchase. Maybe you’ll start to do more 4K work in the future? You’ll be prepared. Yes, there will always be something new coming down the road – new chips, new connectors, new software. Buying the most you can afford will get you through a lot of that.
Regarding obsolescence, I have multiple 2011 MacPro towers with upgraded graphics cards, SSDs and maxed out RAM still running Mojave great. But I can’t run Resolve 17 and some other software anymore, and playing back 4K video on those machines is not ideal. I more than got my dollars back on those boxes and as a testament to their usefulness, I bought what I could afford then and was rewarded for it for many years.
That’s my take. Never buy the base model and get as much RAM as you can. You won’t be sorry with that strategy. If you can wait for the M2, sure wait. if not, you’ll be fine with the M1 Max or Ultra. The performance is ridiculous.
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We have a proper NAS attached to our Resolve system (v16) and with some projects, the media just goes offline for no reason during a session. I’ve seen this in the Resolve forums. The storage never gets disconnected or sleeps, and the media is in the media pool. We just get the red Offline indicator in the timeline. Sometimes selecting some media in the Media Pool fixes it, other times restarting the application is necessary. It’s very time consuming and frustrating. It can happen 2-10 times a day.
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Hi Alex,
The function is called Scene Detect. When you go to add the clip to the project, instead of importing it directly, look for the scene detect menu choice first in the same area. It will open in a window where the system will automatically go through and guess where the scenes change. There you can adjust the sensitivity and add any edits it misses. Then press the add clips to media pool button. You can then create a sequence with those clips which will automatically reassemble in order.
Another great feature is to go to the help menu and open the manual from there. It’s searchable and has many step by step instructions for various functions.
Good luck!