

The companies who develop all this editing platforms want to convince us we can work right away with any format, without any kind of conversion or processing, and this is true to a point, but, specially when editing, proper smooth playback is easily the most important need for any serious editor, who spends eight or more hours a day scrubbing and playing video. Some might behave better than others under some circumstances, but in general, working natively (this is, with the original camera files) is not ideal.
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It happens also in Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, and Final Cut Pro X, the other major editing programs.

Now, this is not just a DaVinci Resolve thing.

Probably not from the start, and probably not in very small projects, but here’s the thing: as we continue editing, as the project grows and the length of our timelines grows, as we start adding effects and complexity, the capacity of real time playback will suffer. Of course, how good playback can be depends also on the characteristics of our computers: graphics card, hard-drive speed, RAM memory, processor… All this elements influence real time playback.īut I can tell you: even extremely powerful computers (Mac or PC) might lag quite a bit with certain formats. Some digital video formats are simply difficult to work with, specially in not so powerful computers.Īnything 4K and higher resolutions, some very demanding RAW formats… With files like that, playback won’t very smooth in many systems.
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