What's going on everyone! Just recently started getting back into video editing and specifically color grading log footage. I decided to dive into DaVinci after having edited in FCPX and Premiere for several years. 

Over the last several weeks, I've noticed that DaVinci runs super slow on my computer, even with just basic edits applied (simple cuts, CST in and out). It's gotten to the point where I have to wait two minutes between every edit just to wait for the render cache to keep up so I can actually watch the playback and that's not even including a color grade applied. All original media has been 10-bit 4K footage from my Sony A7IV. My proxies are currently at 720p Apple ProRes and I've even gone as far as lowering my play back to 720p at quarter of the resolution. Render cache is also set to “smart”.

Any suggestions? Or is my computer the bottleneck here?

Attached are my computer specs and the current settings I have. TIA!

DaVinci Resolve is a borderline-perfect piece of software, but setting an out point should not be this difficult.

I am working on a project that requires me to create textures in GIMP, export them as PNGS, and map them onto moving objects via the Surface Tracking feature in DaVinci. However, I have found that mapping the PNGs onto DaVinci's Surface Tracking feature distorts the texture, turning the soft lines of the original file into thick, hard ones. I’m looking for help on how to get the original line thickness to show up on the model. Thank you very much!

I've attached screenshots of what it looks like. There is a thin colored band showing up on the top of the monitor. The weird thing is that it’s showing up in the scopes like when I go framed by frame I see the scope change when that band shows up. 

It’s always in the same place it’s the top of the screen It’s thin but noticeable and goes the entire stretch of the top of the screen whether I’m in portrait or landscape. Sometimes it’s gray sometimes it blue sometimes it’s green. 

It almost behaves like a virus if it shows up on one clip and I apply the grade from that one clip onto something else it’ll also appear. Something really strange that I was looking at an old project that had it in an attempt to fix it and then I closed that project and opened a new project which had had no problems up until this point And now the Banding has migrated. I’m on the most recent resolve Update and I’ve already tried deleting my render cash and closing resolve restarting my computer. 

How do I get this rich cinematic look on my grades, because I can just never seem to quite get it.

Above is just an example, but I could provide so many that just have that look. How do I achieve that on resolve? Is it the 10 bit video (I only use 8bit because I am on resolve free) or something else with the colours?

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to recreate image glitch and distortion effects in Fusion.

I've tried using my limited knowledge, but I can't figure out which node to use as a starting point.

Is a Transform node enough? Do I need a Fast Noise node? I feel a bit lost and don't know where to begin.

I've looked for tutorials to help me understand, but none of the ones I've found so far quite fit what I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance for your help, and have a great day!

Okay guys, I must be doing something stupid. I set my project settings for a 2160 x 3840 vertical timeline and I get a 1920 x 1080 horizontal timeline. If I tweak some things I can get a 3840 x 2160 horizontal TL, but can't seem to get a vertical timeline. Studio 21.0.4

Here is a very short video of the steps I've tried. https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZ3goVJZ8zpli50kYfLMjQetqchW4XjXFIf7

Thanks for any hints

I was just watching this YouTube tutorial for motion graphics and I stumbled across this issue. I can't save the project to my device. I want it so I can open it as a video but it doesn't workkkkk. Its my first project and it turned out pretty cool and im proud of my first "edit" what do I do for this to work this is a headache dude maybe I messed around cus I copy pasted the BSplines and then removed them lines and added them back in? idk what do I do this is so complicated

Hi everyone, I’d be glad to get any help. I need to create the same smoke effect on the text as in this segment; the effect itself lasts until the first second of the video. I thought I needed to use fast noise and, using a displacement node, modify the text based on the fast noise, but the main problem is that I don’t know how to create something roughly similar, and judging by the video, the fast noise won’t look right at all. I remembered that there’s a volumetric fog node, but I don’t understand how to use this node so that the yellow flame seems to be shining from under the dense fog. But I also don’t understand how to make the fog move and look roughly the same as in the video; unfortunately, the tutorials on using this node explain other use cases.

Easy installation via DaVinci box

Its not a edit, its literally my camera recording at a screen. And I just use this as example, cause I wanna recreate on a clip that Wave thing that happen when you record a Led screen, You see the purple waves? (but maybe is different for your monitor)

It dont need to be perfect, just similar. I'm new in Davinci Resolve so I will appreciate this :3:3

I'm using the power window in my edit, and for some reason, it will not apply on the edit window no matter what I try, and every tip I've gotten so far from online is, "Have you done what you've already done? Yes? Do that then."

Like, quick side tangent, I cannot express how annoying it is to look something up, and realise literally no one has asked the question before. Or at least, I can't find the answer. It's not even once or twice, it is literally every fucking question I have. Something as simple as moving an object via fusion is impossible to answer because my image is flickering for some reason. I'll ask and NO ONE has encountered the problem and I feel like I'm going crazy half the time.