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- Real Name: Miguel Noboa
Burning Ice wrote:because my hard drive cant take anymore torture
Your overall system configuration might help a bit with gathering advice. When you say "your hard drive"... are you saying that you are trying to use your boot drive for all your applications? This is highly ill-advised,
In general practice, you should probably have at least 3 drives for working with Resolve and its current system demands. One boot drive for the operating system and application software, one main media source drive and one more "scratch" drive where all the temporary renders, stills, and "smart" caches are accessed.
The last two need to be the largest and fastest you can afford. A few Terabytes (for HD production), several TB (12 or so for UHD production) and preferably RAIDed for minimum read/write access time.
Specific to your case, it sounds as if you may inadvertently have an "Uncompressed" codec selected as your smart cache or proxy/optimized format - or some other similar error - where your original media gets multiplied by x10 for storage requirement. That is, 30 GB of ProRes or DnX will turn into 300 GB of 10-bit Uncompressed.
jPo, CSI