You can change the file type and resolution for optimized media in your project settings under the Master Settings > Optimized Media.

DaVinci Resolve will now generate optimized media for the files you selected in the format specified in your project settings.

In the Media page, Edit page or on your timeline select the clips you want to create optimized media for, right-click and select Generate Optimized Media.

The downside is you can’t share these files with other editors or to another computer. The benefit of using optimized media over proxies is that resolve dynamically creates and switches between these files and the originals when needed. You can also lower the resolution of the files to speed up performance even more. DaVinci lets you create files in a format that is better suited to editing, normally Prores 422 on a Mac and DnXHQ on a PC. Even high end systems eventually reach a limit with high resolution files and visual effects so don’t be surprised if your system bogs down with a 4K H.265 GoPro file.ĭaVinci Resolve has a built in solution that helps you overcome this while you are editing. Your computer may really struggle with these files, especially in higher resolutions.

Some cameras record in formats like H.264 or H.265 which are compressed and not really designed for editing but rather for delivery. Learn 5 Ways to Easily Fix DaVinci Playback Issues 1.

Thankfully the process to getting smooth playback in this kind of situation is simple and we’re going to be walking you through that step by step. We can see that it’s choppy, and our number of frames being displayed is less than our playback frame rate of 24 frames per second. So on the timeline we have a template with our own footage placed down, but it’s not playing back at full speed.

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