Tue Apr 10, 2018 11:54 pm
I have also been seeing occasional red frames saying 'Media Offline'.
However I found they were NOT a rendering issue, but originated in a different way.
Let me explain, it may help someone.
It was not the fault of DaVinci Resolve, but the cheap Chinese 4K cameras I bought.
The cameras were from Ebay and described as '2'' Ultra HD 4K Wifi 1080P Sports Action Camera Video Camcorder DV DVR Cam CO' and 'Night View Camera(Black)'. They work okay for the price, but don't expect too much. Anyway they split the file containing video and audio into 15 minute chunks before writing to microSD card.
However the video is one frame short compared to the length of the corresponding audio track.
I've checked this for both 24 frames per second and 30fps videos and they both do the same thing.
So when I stitched them all back together (back to back) into one big file the audio was continuous but the video has missing frames.
When DaVinci sees that frames are missing it outputs 'media offline' instead.
I'm trying to find a workaround for this, something along the lines of 'if Media Offline then repeat last good frame'. Anyone know how to do that?