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Good morning.

I have recently started using DaVinci Resolve 16 (free) on my Lenovo Thinkpad P1. Here are the specs:

- i7 processor
- 64GB RAM
- 1TB SSD
- NVIDIA Quadro T1000


When playing back clips with effects or transitions I am finding that the performance is ... awful. The playback is very choppy, skips frames and is generally unpleasant to use.

Wondering if anyone can help me figure out what the issue is ... Is my graphics card not appropriate for video editing?

I would prefer to not have to switch to Final Cut Pro if I can avoid it.

Sid

I was able to do some research and found the following link that recommended reducing the playback resolution to 1/2 or 1/4 ...

https://blog.frame.io/2020/02/24/davinc ... rformance/

This doesn't affect the final render and certainly does seem to make playback much smoother ... though the video quality is worse.

I suppose that will have to do for now ... but could still use some help understanding if my graphics card is simply not any good.

While Quadro GPU sounds great, this is a consumer model with less power than a GTX 1650. Even that one is not really great for demanding work in DR.
You don't need to switch to FCP-X, but you may want to switch to an Apple M1 laptop or spend serious money for a strong gaming laptop under Windows, which will be loud and eat batteries for breakfast.