DaVinci Resolve for Beginners
Course 1: Preparing Your Project: Playback Speed and Creating Caches
By Alex Berry , Colorist
About the video: Playback Speed and Creating Caches
Overview
“Sometimes you will be working with processor-intensive media which may test the limit of your computer’s ability. In this lesson, we learn how to make difficult formats play back smoothly. ”
In this video lesson Alex Berry addresses the topic: Playback Speed and Creating Caches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 1: Preparing Your Project. Learn about color grading and explore the DaVinci Resolve interface.
Partial transcription of the video
“Not everybody has the newest, fastest computer or the fastest hard drive to work from. In this lesson, I'll show you how to let Resolve make low res versions of your footage in order to play it back smoothly. Let's have a look. This is a great tip. This is really going to help you. So here we have my online 4k. Footage. You can see down here in the metadata, I can see it's 380 by 2160 UHD 4K, and it's ProRes 4 by 4. It's a pretty beefy codec. Now what I'm doing is streaming it off of a little flash drive. So if I hit play, is barely playing at all. If you look up in the top left of this vie...”
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Course summary for: Course 1: Preparing Your Project
Alex Berry
By Alex Berry
Alex Berry is a professional colorist from the UK. He began his audiovisual journey working as a runner for a post-production house as a teenager and began teaching himself skills like editing, VFX, cinematography, and color grading.
His work in color grading promos for a British TV station helped him gain the skills and experience necessary to co-found his own creative studio in East London in 2010. Over the last twenty years, he has collaborated on projects for brands like McLaren, Nintendo, Puma, Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, Airbnb, Clarks, the NHS, FIFA, and more.
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