Pausing w/ space bar has 2+ frame delay

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Pausing w/ space bar has 2+ frame delay

PostTue Apr 08, 2025 2:52 pm

Hi! I've searched high and low online but since most search engines and youtube etc. are useless I can't really find anyone talking about this. I'm sorry if there exists a thread somewhere that I just couldn't locate. (I also searched here with advanced search).

I'm using the latest davinci resolve free version (DaVinci_Resolve_19.1.4_Windows) but I've had this issue in previous versions as well, but not with all of them. Every time I hit the space bar to pause the footage I'm editing, the red "cursor" (I'm sorry I don't know the proper word for it) doesn't stop immediately after pausing, but always adds at least two frames. So if I wanted to pause the timeline cursor at point A, the cursor stops at A.2 frames or more. This is highly irritating, because I have to manually go back two or more frames every time I want to stop and cut something, otherwise I cut away the first two frames I wanted to include.

What I have done to solve this:
- updated my drivers for my keyboard (using razer synapse, I have a regular, wired keyboard)
- updated davinci again, even though I was running the latest version
- updated and checked the keyboard preferences

PLEASE if you know what to do I would be extremely thankful or if this is a known issue, I hope they're going to fix this soon. As I said, not all installations of this program have worked like this. I think around 3 latest versions have had this issue and then sometime long ago but it went away for me with another update along the way. I really hope to fix this because it's making my editing extremely time consuming and definitely not enjoyable.
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Re: Pausing w/ space bar has 2+ frame delay

PostTue Apr 08, 2025 9:17 pm

I haven't experienced that. When I press the space bar Resolve is pretty responsive.
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Re: Pausing w/ space bar has 2+ frame delay

PostTue Apr 08, 2025 9:24 pm

izuaurora wrote:the red "cursor" (I'm sorry I don't know the proper word for it)
Resolve uses the term "playhead".
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Re: Pausing w/ space bar has 2+ frame delay

PostWed Apr 09, 2025 8:27 am

Try using the JKL keys on your keyboard. Single press L to go forwards and K to stop. J will play in reverse. Double pressing either the J or L keys will increase the playback speed.
If you still get a lag when pressing the K key to stop it could be the keyboard itself or your computer. Do you have any other programs running at the same time as Resolve, and do you see this delay in stopping in any other video player?
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Re: Pausing w/ space bar has 2+ frame delay

PostSat Apr 19, 2025 9:49 am

Charles Bennett wrote:Try using the JKL keys on your keyboard. Single press L to go forwards and K to stop. J will play in reverse. Double pressing either the J or L keys will increase the playback speed.
If you still get a lag when pressing the K key to stop it could be the keyboard itself or your computer. Do you have any other programs running at the same time as Resolve, and do you see this delay in stopping in any other video player?


I haven't noticed any delay on anything else, only on resolve and no, while editing I only run DR, no other programs. I will try the JKL and see what happens.

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