Uli Plank wrote:Try TIFFs instead.
This only worked for about half of the rendering errors oddly enough.
However, this did lead me down the path for fixing the rest of them, so I thank you for that.
Some pngs (or original jpgs), once converted to tiffs, would either corrupt horribly or still not fix the rendering artifacts.
What I did for these was take a screenshot with win+S on my 1440p monitor (to maintain the highest quality) of the original image to create a file that was entirely new.
Using this new screenshot and replacing the old clip, the artifacts were gone.
Another interesting observation: I tried rendering out the full video, then reimporting it back into a new project to manually cover up any artifacts. However, to my surprise, the rendering artifacts did not appear in the preview window, even though they did on youtube, vlc, movie maker, etc. Once I rerendered they would be back of course though.
Anyways, TLDR,
I guess the final takeaway is that the issue was that some of the files were corrupted or encoded in a way only davinci resolve does not like.
Thanks for all the help!