Why I NEVER Edit in 4k - My Davinci Resolve Workflow
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Why I never edit in 4k if I can help it! It just doesn't make any sense especially if you're running Davinci Resolve on a laptop. 4k will make everything slower to run and use more battery with little to no real benefits when actually editing/cutting your timeline together.
In this video I explain why I don't think 4k makes sense for most people and talk about the alternatives like using Proxies, Timeline Proxy Mode or settings your timeline to be a lower resolution such as 1080p. Enjoy!
00:00 - Intro
00:12 - Breakfast
00:29 - Why?!
00:46 - What is Resolution
01:22 - 4k vs 1080p
02:11 - Whats actually happening?
04:23 - Battery Life
05:21 - Your options
05:38 - Proxies
06:11 - Timeline Proxy Mode
06:43 - Timeline Resolution
07:10 - What do you lose?
08:14 - When 4k makes sense
09:30 - Killer Workflow tip
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This was brilliant. Great job as always bro.
Heeyyy. Thanks Casey dude ☺️☺️
Casey has helped me a lot. Bumped into his vids in 2021 and finally I can do smething in resolve.
I kinda felt sorry of the portrayel of the low end computer. Poor old dude looked so cutsie and nice.
@@The_Idea_of_Dream_Vision Yeaah Casey is a hero 🙂 He should be immortalised as an action figure or something.
@@Leprutz 😆 Don't worry, he'll soon be retired and allowed to put his feet up!
Thinking outside the box and evolving my game! First 5 mins are great, i feel the video ran out of steam a little towards the end so i'll adapt my scripts in the future. The goal is super tight, funny but informative vids.
I'm still planning to do my No-BS vids as well, these are just fun to make and hopefully good for the TH-cam Gods 😆 Hope you enjoy it!
Love them! Please do keep doing them, as they are not only entertaining but informative as well.
Had a great Matthew Holness vibe to some of the lines.
"I've got an absolute beast of a PC which eats 4K for breakfast."
You heard of Mercian Studios? Well I went down there the first day it opened, right, and I edited a couple of clips. I full-screen previewed. The bloke that runs the thing came over and said, "Oi, no professionals."
I took my glasses off and said, "I'm not a professional."
He said, "You're not a professional?"
I said, "No."
He said, "Well you should be. If I was you I'd enter the Academy Awards. And if you edit like that you'd probably be the best in the country."
I said, "I'm not interested. I'm getting loads of positive comments on TH-cam."
I can definitely feel all the effort in the first editing part and then the "pain" in the second part.
Still, great job! Focusing on entertaining in the first part is definitely the best choice
Yeah in hindsight, two separate super tight 5 min vids would probably have worked better.
What's the saying, mistakes are just little learning experiences?! 😁
@@MrAlexTech you're just A/B testing, right? ;) don't feel the need to please people, sure fire way to turn it into a chore. You got your audience from doing what you're doing, so you're doing something right.
NOTE: The template file is just a template. When you click it, it creates a new project with that timeline within. You can just hit save to save the project. The template file WILL NOT be overwritten. Meaning the template file is always there, ready to be clicked when you want to start a new project and it can be located anywhere on your PC 🙂
I was wondering about this thanks .
How to create one?
If i edit off of a external SSD, can i or will the program save hte project on the external ssd?
Cool ! That was my question ! Thanks😊
100% This guys. I always import my 4k into a 1080p timeline and then once I'm done editing bump it to 4k before rendering it out. Great Info for folks that didn't know !!!
This is by far my favorite "MrAlexTeck" video ever.
You've outdone yourself my friend.
This is far and away the best visual example and metaphor for the differences between 1080p and 4K resolution ever created. Excellent job, very creative. Needs more views.
This was really helpful thanks!
You just keep getting better, love the creative teaching style you have
Happy to add to the accolades. I like and learn from all your tutorials but this one is the best so far. Thanks for your continued sharing of knowledge and inspiration.
That was an astounding video, Alex! I learned a bunch and think your frame sipping section was quite clever! Thanks!
9:44 That template tip is a game changer for me, I have a standard start and effects I use on each video. Being able to start with them in place is amazing. Thanks Alex
What a great video! The FX, b roll, special bits [I love the new vs old computer one]. Also, very informative - I quickly figured out that even my gaming laptop wasn't happy with multicam 4k clips, so I converted the timeline to 1080, did my editing, and then set it back to 4k for export. Very easy on the computer and me.
Settling down to watch this with my carpet slippers and a nice blanket to keep me warm I realised that it wasn't just me running slowly but for some reason my laptop was playing back at only 480p. Time for a nice cup of cocoa and an early night I think. Thanks for the video. Some useful stuff in this - especially as the latest upgrade to Davinci Resolve has decided that it doesn't like my laptop's built in Intel graphics any more.
Holy Cow Alex, Lots of great information there. One of your best!
One of the best explanations ever. Really creative and informative. Great, great job, Alex 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇧
You just keep getting better at this!
I literally was wondering about this yesterday, as I’ve just upgraded to a camera that can film in 4K, and my timelines were automatically starting at 1080p. And that whole template project thing was a bit mind blowing. Love it.
Extremely informative.
One of your best vlogs !
I already knew most of this info but the cool and entertaining way you explained it made me totally enjoy watching this. Great video 👍👍👍
Fun start, awesome vid! 🤜🏼🤛🏼😮💨
This was such a great video! Love the timeline template too! Thanks so much :)
I am just starting with Davinci a week ago, tired of the bugs and slow editing methods in my previous software... Davinci Resolve is an amazing piece of software and your vids provide for so many great tips to get to know the program and already reducing workflow with great instructions like this video. Thx so much!! keep up the great work please
Very helpful tips, thx for video
Life saver tips! Thank you!
Amazing tutorial! Thank you!!
Your killer workflow tip is exactly how I've been editing in FCP on my old MBP. I have a Mac Studio on the way and I've been bingeing your videos, because I'm VERY tempted to switch to Resolve. The more I learn the more I want to try it.
Absolute gold yet again - thank you 🙏
Brilliant video, loved it.
Great that Trick with the timline tamplate, thanks mate 👍👏
That pre made timeliness is genius and will save me hours over multiple projects, thank you Alex🙏👍.
+1 on this. Need to check out the full video on it, this seems to have loads of potential!
This is an amazing video man, awesome job!!!
Keep up the good work!
Great stuff. Thanks. Provides a no-nonsense approach to dealing with 4k footage, editing it in a 1080p timeline, then exporting it as 4k, while retaining effects, transition etc.
Fantastic demonstrations, nice work!
Love it... you are just as informative as you are entertaining.. thank you
This explanation was masterful. Describing the difference between your computer having to edit 4k as opposed to 1080p as having to color in different sizes of paper was so easy for me to understand. Then, your narration had such helpful footage and editing. You shot your computer having to consume 4k. You showed your footage stuttering when you talked about missed frames. I am impressed by the work you put in to bolster the explanations you gave. I would be interested in seeing a tutorial/video on your process. What steps do you go through when creating such a story? Do you first make an outline with supporting points (or supporting visuals)? Do you make storyboards and revise them as you go? Do you write out your script, use bullet points, or just wing it the first time through? Anyway. Good video.
Lots of great tips
brilliant video! Loved the extra effort you put in !
This is sooooo helpful! Thank you! :)
These are the best Davinci Resolve videos on this platform. Thankyou.
Absolutely. Great tip. Cheers
Alex great work as always and many thanks for sharing!
Just brilliant. I think one of the things that have become dreadful in my TH-cam Video creation process is how much time the editing process can take. Will definitely go back and prep my workflow. Create a Timeline preset, get a LUT and speed things up.
Excellent, thank you. Great content as always.
great tips thankyou
This video has everything: great tips, awesome editing and really well executed humour.
That’s was brilliant to watch 👍
Your tutorials rock! Thanks for sharing.
It was done so well!
Hey Alex. I'm new to your channel & have to say that your guides are just brilliant. Entertaining yet so informative. Instructions are given in a clear yet simple way making it easy even for an oldie like me to follow. Resolve is brilliant, but there is just so much to learn, & the older I get, I just don't take it in when reading the guides alone. I have a MacBook Pro and when I bought it, paid to upgrade to
Very good, well explained! Something I will start using right away especially the setting up of the desktop shortcut…
Awesome !!! Thank you Billy!
Lol. I confused you with another guy, billy rybka. I follow him too.
The appreciation comment was for you though♥️
Very useful, thanks!
Like your explanations and examples and the topic. Came handy. Thanx.
Really loved the visualization of the frame drawing and dropped frames. This seems so accurate and funny if you think about it. Less funny for the overall workflow though of course, when you're working on an old machine. Thank you so much, I really enjoyed watching this!
So timeline or project resolution has some major downsides beyond what you explained. I used to edit in 1080p and change to 4k for export. However, if you want for example to smart mask an object/person and you do it in 1080, as soon as you switch to 4k the mask tracking gets cancelled and you have to do it again. The render in place also for mp4 takes the timeline resolution so you’d have rendered 1080p footage inside your timeline when exporting 4k.
My solution: run Optimize Media for the footage in the media pool that will make it play back real time.
This is the way
If you proxy to a low 4k bitrate, you can get multicamera editing on an intel or apple igpu, in other words fast decoding, but you get 4k calculations beyond that. Some apps optimize some functions to save some of that processing. If you do the editing in lower resolution, you save processing, but decoding is at full resoaultion. You can do both but all processing must be scalable to the final revolution. Some processing gets better results when it has higher resolution and higher bitrate input. If you do drama that only needs cuts, you can proxy and work at lower resolution without a problem. You can edit film in dv format as was standard in the past. Fast performance is critical for real editing, with rhythm and actors performing. Effects can wait. If you do advanced processing you can optimize nothing. In some cases you need to go lossless or uncompressed to achieve a complex workflow. Low bitrate 4k proxy is easy on hardware acceleration and perfectly compatible but not ideal for processing. If you replace it, some things should be recalculated. There is no perfect solution. It depends on what one wants to achievw. The latest hardware is certainly not enough, even for simple full resolution workflows.
Fantastic Alex such a huge time saver - many thanks indeed for posting this great info 👍 👍 👍
Awesome Stuff! Just what I needed to hear as I'm kinda new to Davinci!
Great explanation. This makes the difference very clear. I am just getting started in this end of information technology. So this was very helpful.
I've been bumping into this, trying to decide what works best -- thanks for getting it straight in my head
Love this explanation! Thank you! This was awesome!
Fantastic - this was so helpful. Cheers as always Alex 🙏🏻
Thanks Gary 😁
Very creative, well done brother, you are onto something here
Brilliant !!! Explained Well :)
Thanx, man!! Great tip.
I love the template idea!!
This is awesome! Thank you
i love your way for explain, congrats
Very helpful. Thank you.
Fantastic! Thank you.
YOU'RE a GENIUS!!!! I've always had issues with 4K playback, This helped me immensely Whoot Whoot
Very helpful, and with great analogies. Thank you!
MrAlexTech, keep doing you man. I found you through Casey's channel, same way I found Patrick Stirling and others, you all have something unique to offer. I find your videos very helpful, coming from Premiere I'm still not that comfortable in the nodes page and your easy workflow tips and just amazing stuff I can do in the edit page, along with everything else teaches me so much. So please know you are helping a lot of people and your way of teaching is brilliant and much appreciated. One thing I love about all you guys is collaboration not competition, between all of you, you guys make a complete Resolve full teaching team on every aspect I could think of and even stuff I couldn't imagine. Can't wait for Resolvecon 2022. This video really helped me out, even though I don't have a 4k camera, it helped me to learn how to make templates and pros and cons of various proxy options and to better understand how my system works on resolution, very good analogy used. I always watch one of your videos, one of Casey's and one of Patrick's everyday, although after Resolvecon I'll probably have a lot of tutorials to learn. I am learning something new every day, don't ever change friend, your videos are perfect, enjoyable and very helpful for me to understand! Thank you very much!!!!
You guys are the Fellowship of Resolve, One NLE to Rule Them All!
lovely comment.. (:
This was both very useful and very funny! Thanks for an awesome tip!
I like learning things while being entertained. Round of applause MrAlex! You've got a new sub and a like! Keep up the good work
And again a great tut. I use the same timeline flow just as you showed. Great to know that I'm on the right track 👍🏻
Brilliant, as always
Great workflow to follow, Alex. Thank you for tip👍
Oh boy, I love this video! It's funny and I learned a lot!! Thanks 👍
Incredible video tutorial. Next level. I'm fairly new and still learning resolve.
Cool timeline template tip, thanks.
Every video of your makes it easier and easier. Thank you MUCH!
Even I could understand this concept from the creative way you explained it. Thank you.
Timeline template is exactly what I was looking for earlier. Thanks for covering this in the video... Cheers!
i already did this but the examples made me understand everything more, amazing job great vid
Awesome tip! never knew about templates!
simply amazing. thanks so much for sharing this. i just dont have enough space to work with proxies and this will help me a lot.
Excellent. Thanks for making that.
Very good Video! Thank you!
There is lot of valuable information to digest here. Thanks.
Loved the b roll on this one, nice work.
Thanks Kyle 👍🙂
Hi Alex, just getting into Resolve and many thanks for your timeline advice. Great video.
This is exactly what I needed to make my playback better! Thank you!!!
Simply outstanding man !!!
Awesome!
You make the absolutely best tutorials on Resolve. Thank you
Amazing video Alex. As I said before I learnt so much from you. I hope one day you will do a tutorial on how you get 2 of yourself in one scene. In other words a duplicate version of yourself in one scene as you did. Its amazing
You earned yourself a sub. Love the .DRT thing. Keep at it!
👍 Thank you
Brilliant, all set to go on my next video with my end slot already on the timeline.
EXACTLY I WAS LOOKING FOR AND SOMETHING I DIDNT EVEN KNOW I NEEDED. AMAZING
That preset workflow makes a huge difference- Thank you!
Sweet, amazing and brilliant . 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾