efficiency and old cache files ?
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:05 pmI'm about to finally start editing a 6 camera multicam shoot using Optimized media in Resolve 16. 5 cameras are UHD and one is 1080 HD . Editing in a 1080 timeline. I expect to be doing a pretty fair amount of color correction , push ins, some masking and double exposures, so I'm concerned about it not getting bogged down.
Have a few different questions re workflow;
1. While figuring out how to do this , I've had to learn Resolve, experiment a great deal both with color and a variety of processor intensive effects from resolve & neat video, Dub my project numerous times so I have maybe 8 versions of it, and I made Proxy files in 1080 and 720 before i settled on using optimized media . Along the way I've experimented with noise reduction and had to make full dubs of some of the cameras to clean up noise so that I could edit without getting bogged down by the effects.
I'm concerned now that the Resolve database in general and all these project versions are littered with no longer needed cache files and god knows what else that will slow down the the whole program.
- Should I be concerned about this and if so how can I clean everything up so its not a mess in there?
I was thinking as a first step I could dub the most recent project to a new one and delete all the extra timelines and source files I no longer need. Secondly I could delete all the no longer needed earlier Project versions. But will that clean things up ? Is it even necessary to do that at all?
2. A related general question is how or whether I should in some way separate individual cache files and indeed old projects altogether from the Resolve database as time goes along and i do more and Resolve Projects. I knew how to do this back with FCP 7 but i don't understand Resolve project management that well.
3. This is a more minor question : I made most of my UHD optimized media at half resolution and ProRes Lite because that gave me an acceptable balance of image quality and playback smoothness. I need to make a new optimized version of the 1080 camera and didn't like how it looked at half res. I could make it at full res or Auto .Is Auto harder on the system ? Its OK to mix optimized at half and full right?
Thanks a great deal. I do consult the manual often and tons of tutorials but sometimes its hard to find this info. This Forum is a great resource.
Have a few different questions re workflow;
1. While figuring out how to do this , I've had to learn Resolve, experiment a great deal both with color and a variety of processor intensive effects from resolve & neat video, Dub my project numerous times so I have maybe 8 versions of it, and I made Proxy files in 1080 and 720 before i settled on using optimized media . Along the way I've experimented with noise reduction and had to make full dubs of some of the cameras to clean up noise so that I could edit without getting bogged down by the effects.
I'm concerned now that the Resolve database in general and all these project versions are littered with no longer needed cache files and god knows what else that will slow down the the whole program.
- Should I be concerned about this and if so how can I clean everything up so its not a mess in there?
I was thinking as a first step I could dub the most recent project to a new one and delete all the extra timelines and source files I no longer need. Secondly I could delete all the no longer needed earlier Project versions. But will that clean things up ? Is it even necessary to do that at all?
2. A related general question is how or whether I should in some way separate individual cache files and indeed old projects altogether from the Resolve database as time goes along and i do more and Resolve Projects. I knew how to do this back with FCP 7 but i don't understand Resolve project management that well.
3. This is a more minor question : I made most of my UHD optimized media at half resolution and ProRes Lite because that gave me an acceptable balance of image quality and playback smoothness. I need to make a new optimized version of the 1080 camera and didn't like how it looked at half res. I could make it at full res or Auto .Is Auto harder on the system ? Its OK to mix optimized at half and full right?
Thanks a great deal. I do consult the manual often and tons of tutorials but sometimes its hard to find this info. This Forum is a great resource.