[Terence Christopher]

Thanks Ole

[Terence Christopher]

Thanks Pat, I will follow up your link to the training video. I am concerned that I have not set up Da Vinci properly as I notice that the video seems to be slow and jerky when it is not like that when I play the video in any of the players I have tried and the video seems to play correctly in Vegas and Corel (but I would have to learn these editors )I have tried to make certain that the settings in Da Vinci match those in Vegas but that doesn’t seem to help.
I guess Da Vinci is a demanding environment for these old videos, and a good learning experience for me.

[Terence Christopher]

I can send the specs on the original but I have no output as yet from DaVinci. I am still processing the file. I just have stuff on the timeline. How would I run media info on it? Perhaps I could copy the timeline and save it somewhere?
Thanks
Terence
p.s. It is good to hear from you. You were very helpful way back when I was getting started with Da Vinci and overwhelmed by the size of the decompressed files. Thanks for all that help too.

[Terence Christopher]

Thanks I will try it. By the way the software is running really well now on old videos that I have to edit.

[Terence Christopher]

Michael The hard drive question is difficult to answer as I have a complex system.
To play back 4K mp4 final video I have this stored on a QNAP NAS which is running 10 Tb 7200 rpm disks in a RAID 5 configuration with a solid state ? 10 Gigabyte buffer. However for editing I have an external much slower 8 TB external hard drive and the video is decompressed to Pro Res.. In addition I have a 2 TB 7200 hard drive installed by Dell who removed my new 7200 rpm /Seagate hybrid drive when I sent the machine back under warranty. I think for play back over the network the QNAP is fine though it is incapable of supporting a video player. However I am not sure about the files loaded into Davinci Reserve I assume that they are on my Dell drive. It seems to have supported videos without a problem and is an all in one configuration. I don’t know how to test the set up nor to evaluate the possible problem with the handling of the codecs. It will play Netflix movies without a problem and has a screen resolution of approx 1900 X1080 though it came out before 4K, but that probably doesn’t signify much of anything. I have played my 4k Clips which come out of my camera as MP4. They run without a hitch.

[Terence Christopher]

Addendum Michael,
I have just gone back to the( preferences which I had confused with the Settings.) Setting the Graphics processor to being able to be used in the computation made a big difference. Using a prores 4K input I was able to load media into Da Vinci reserve and run through each clip and add it to the timeline. This is much better than anything I had achieved previously. However it was impossible to play the video on the timeline it moved in a staggered almost as a series of stills. However I have not yet changed the resolution or speed. Thanks for this great help. Perhaps I might be able to get something going!!
Thanks
Terence

[Terence Christopher]

I have been trying to optimize the preferences and media as recommend by previous posts, however that did not help much. Which is why I raised the present question. However I will look at this again. I have been on hold for a few weeks waiting until I can get a new machine. With the free version I found that when I went into the colour panel, the sound became very poor but I ignored it. However with the paid version the video just refused to play. Anyway I will go back and look around again. There are many controls in preferences, and playing around ends up causing havoc. That is why I have tried resetting the preferences to the initial settings. I will try reinstalling the programme as a start.
Thanks for your comment.

[Terence Christopher]

I was guided to Media Spot by other contributors to this web site. It has been very stable and reliable. I have also had a great deal of help as I was wrestling with video problems from a camera that was causing problems. So I have nothing but praise for them. I was working principally with ProRes as it seemed to be the most stable and reliable way to go.
https://audiospot.audio/audiospot-creativetools
Terence

[Terence Christopher]

Ray
Thanks for that advice. I will play around with it. My problem is that I am sending a video of a violinist playing back to him in France. I can see that I probably will never win this one. However it will be a great “learning experience”!
Thanks for your help I really appreciate it.
Terence

[Terence Christopher]

I am working at NTSC 29.67 fps but need to send an MP4 video to someone with a PAL 25 fps. I would like to preserve the musical pitch in spite of this. I do have the original encoded in Pro Res. Could I successfully change the frame rate and the sound output. Using Da Vinci?
Thanks
Terence