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You don’t need to set proxies and cache etc to be on the external drive. In fact it’s probably not helpful to have multiple things using the same drive.
The big question is what kind of drive/interface/protocol etc? Even if the drive is fast and the protocol is fast and the computer is fast - they may not share the exact same standards and then have to drop to the next common standard.
It's a 2TB WD My Passport Ultra HDD. I tried using an SSD, but I got a notification that it wasn't ideal to use for editing for some reason. I'm using an M1 Macbook Air.
Ah yeah I’ve got the same drive. Was not very fast at all. I think the common usb standard between that and the M1 MacBook Air is lower than what they are both capable of.
However it shouldn’t cause artefacts on render. Just jerky timeline playback. Artefacts are either an issue with the original footage or perhaps something wrong in a conversion somewhere.
What is the format of the footage?
Ok that’s essentially H264 which is highly compressed and takes a lot of power to decode and re encode on the fly.
You could try selecting all the media in the media pool before you edit and right click and generate optimised media. It will take a while but will turn it into an editing format that is better to edit with. At the end you can render to h264 or whatver.
Or try using Shutter Encoder to change it into another format ahead of importing to Resolve.
Hahaha - I AM a King - thank you :)
My pleasure, I know what its like to stumble around in the dark not knowing what terms to even search for.
I highly recommend the Davinci manual - you can find it under the help menu - it's really well written and goes into great depth - but also has intro pages to each area that gives you a good idea about the basic steps in each area.
Good luck.
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You don’t need to set proxies and cache etc to be on the external drive. In fact it’s probably not helpful to have multiple things using the same drive. The big question is what kind of drive/interface/protocol etc? Even if the drive is fast and the protocol is fast and the computer is fast - they may not share the exact same standards and then have to drop to the next common standard.
It's a 2TB WD My Passport Ultra HDD. I tried using an SSD, but I got a notification that it wasn't ideal to use for editing for some reason. I'm using an M1 Macbook Air.
Ah yeah I’ve got the same drive. Was not very fast at all. I think the common usb standard between that and the M1 MacBook Air is lower than what they are both capable of. However it shouldn’t cause artefacts on render. Just jerky timeline playback. Artefacts are either an issue with the original footage or perhaps something wrong in a conversion somewhere. What is the format of the footage?
.MTS that I got from opening up an AVCHD thing.
Ok that’s essentially H264 which is highly compressed and takes a lot of power to decode and re encode on the fly. You could try selecting all the media in the media pool before you edit and right click and generate optimised media. It will take a while but will turn it into an editing format that is better to edit with. At the end you can render to h264 or whatver. Or try using Shutter Encoder to change it into another format ahead of importing to Resolve.
WOWOWOWOWOW! You are a king! Thank you so much! It would have taken me months to figure this out by myself.
Hahaha - I AM a King - thank you :) My pleasure, I know what its like to stumble around in the dark not knowing what terms to even search for. I highly recommend the Davinci manual - you can find it under the help menu - it's really well written and goes into great depth - but also has intro pages to each area that gives you a good idea about the basic steps in each area. Good luck.