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Posted: **Fri Apr 23, 2021 4:40 pm**

Hello,

Please,

( I'm working at 4kvideo with external harddrive. I have Davinci 17, MacBook pro, 2,6 GHz, 8 GB ram - It's not as old, but also not the newsest)

The 4k videos are not smooth, (best its when i play preview in the media pool), but when I play it at full screen - it's slow/freezing etc..),,, and when I put the video in timeline it's even worse... It's probably becouse of my computer and 4K, I understand... But when I made Proxy or Optimized Medium (I also try very small quality),,, it didn't help... Yes, the quality is lower, but the playback isn't any more smoother. :oops:

(the converted videos are rendering on the external harddrive, not to my compute,, becouse of the space),, - I need to work with 10tb of video material you know.....

Please can you help me?
I was watching many videos and forums, but I didn't find where is the problem. I really tried many things, but nothing...

Thank you very much!
Haloiam

Posted: **Fri Apr 23, 2021 5:16 pm**

What sort of external drive are your files coming from? 4k is a lot of data and your drive could be the bottleneck. Also rendering to the same drive as the original clips will slow things down.
Internal SSDs are a better option.

Posted: **Fri Apr 23, 2021 6:31 pm**

Charles Bennett wrote:What sort of external drive are your files coming from? 4k is a lot of data and your drive could be the bottleneck. Also rendering to the same drive as the original clips will slow things down.
Internal SSDs are a better option.

Thanks,

Even I tried it only on mac,, without external disk,, it's the same.. :/ not smooth at all,, even the proxy aren't smooth...strange

Posted: **Fri Apr 23, 2021 10:20 pm**

8 GB RAM is insufficient for Resolve, and then, you don't even mention your GPU.

Posted: **Fri Apr 23, 2021 10:36 pm**

Uli Plank wrote:8 GB RAM is insufficient for Resolve, and then, you don't even mention your GPU.

Thank you and sorry. It's Intel Iris 1536 MB

Posted: **Sat Apr 24, 2021 9:35 pm**

You can try a timeline in small HD (720). But 4K is definitely too much for the poor thing.

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