Cannot render a video despite many attempts at troubleshooting
Hello, hoping that someone is able to figure out what I'm doing wrong or what I can change. (Despite making videos for about 2 years I've had no formal training on how to use Resolve so there may be bad habits I've got while editing that I'm not realising, therefore the error may be in the editing rather than rendering.)
I'm trying to render a video, it is 2 hours long and the size total of the videos in the project is 259 GB. Most video files are .mp4, but some are .mkv, along with many images and other various files. There are a very large number of transitions as well, and thousands of voice clips.
The entire video is contained within one timeline. Originally I had 16GB of RAM and so it kept running out of RAM and crashing at about 35% in. So I have gone and upgraded and now have 32 GB of RAM, but instead after about 4 hours it still crashes, but not due to lack of RAM, no error, just completely stops. In the Windows Event Viewer it just tells me that the program crashed.
My PC specs are: RAM: 32 GB (26 GB usable) GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti CPU: Intel i7-8700K Motherboard: MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Pro Carbon AC OS: Windows 11
I'm using the latest version of Resolve (20.3.2) and I am rendering using the H.265 codec, and as an .mov file.
I've tried the following troubleshooting options:
-Cleared render cache -Increased the amount of RAM and VRAM that the program can use -Reducing the render speed -Turned off "Updates during renders" -Deleted 100s of GB worth of files from my computer (currently 533GB of free space on my hard drive where the file will be rendered to) -Uninstalled and reinstalled the program
Thanks!