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Hi there. I'm using the free version of Resolve. I'm on a PC with an I5, 16 gig ram, and a Geforce Nvidia 1070 graphics card. I know I need to upgrade to at least an i7 , but I'm managing ok. The problem I'm having is when I render this five minute piece I'm working on, it renders ok, but includes the odd frame of 'media offline' in the finished product.

The weird thing is, the media is definitely there, and playing whilst rendering, but yeah, the odd frame flashes up the 'media offline' message and thus gets rendered. What's more, if I try to relink the media and go to the precise folder I get the message 'No items match your search'. Even though, if I click on the 'open source folder' it takes me directly to the folder where said media is. Prior to all this, projects were failing to render until, following a youtuber's advice, I took off the default 'stop renders when a frame cannot be processed' in the 'preferences, which did solve the problem of failed renders.

So, yeah, now the project renders to 100%, but, like I say, renders frames of 'media offline' message. I would be most grateful to anyone who can help me resolve this (no pun intended). Thanks in advance.

What kind of media are you using? From what camera(s)?

Jim Simon wrote:What kind of media are you using? From what camera(s)?

Hi Simon. To both you and anyone else reading this. I did resolve the issue today. First, in respect of re-linking files, I was somehow being a bit dumb, by not realising I had to pick the folder where the files were, instead of going into that folder and looking for the file, so yeah, my bad.

More interesting, which probably relates to your question, Simon, is that although all the main footage is my own, I've been downloading 4K backgrounds from someone on youtube called Gam Ol, who I highly recommend for anyone who needs animated backgrounds (I have sent a few quid their way too). Whilst these backgrounds are perfect, it's clear that once I edited them in Da Vinci (cross fades transitions/slowing their speed etc..), the program is somehow, I think, not recognising them as the original clip, hence lots of 'media offline' messages during the clips. I realised today that the issue was with the edited clips and nothing to do with Da Vinci.

The solution I arrived at was to pull the clips into VLC media player, and simply record them there at the speed I required, and then add the finished product to my timeline. From there I could add cross-fades and pretty much work with them no problem. So, on the first hand, apologies for being a bit slow. On the second hand I learned a lot. I think Da Vinci Resolve is a brilliant piece of software, especially it being for free and all, and am really enjoying working with it.

Clearly I have a lot to learn, but there's no question that it's a good deal of fun getting there. Thanks for the reply, Simon. Just in case you're curious, for my own video footage I'm using a Xioami Poco X3 mobile phone camera. Which is sufficient for my purposes. You work with what you have, yes? All the best.