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I started a new project (without setting the project settings away from given timeline settings), dragged my videos in and did a long edit.

Then I exported in mpg 4k but had some artifacts in the film.

I changed around some export settings and since it didn't get me a better result I also changed the project settings including timeline resolution.

Afterwards EACH export was blocky as if it is recorded in a very high compression. No matter what I set any setting to.

Already tried other timeline resolution, other export settings or formats and so on.

I also tried the export settings "use best media" and "ignore edit resising" (or similar named).
This doesn't change anything of the result. - Still blocky.

Them I read in some forum post "copy your timeline" create a new project with higher timeline resolution and post it there".

Tried... Still blocky...
I got no idea what is wrong!


Finding all those little cuts in my base films and do all work again from scratch is no option.

Try exporting in a low compression format, like DNxHD, OR ProRes

Solved this issue. Did reset all Settings and it was ok since then.

It might help to know what your project settings are, what your source files are, and what your output settings are. "everything I output looks bad" doesn't help because nobody knows what you started with, or even what you output.

a before and after screen shot or two might help as well. Its possible you are pushing your footage too far, and seeing the results of an under exposed shoot.

No I had excellent footage but must have messed up the settings somehow.

Now after resetting all it has full resolution as before.

But somehow I get artifacts and lags in quick moving parts still. I tried everything even bitrates up to 100.000kb and all other settings in multiple combinations.

Can this be an issue about my old gfx card (gtx660) ?
Normally rendering should only take longer but not be worse right?

By now I found forum topics resolve has bad implementation of h264 but THAT bad? I cant believe it.

I downloaded some other products for exporting h264 after exporting uncompressed with resolve.
But that's really a pitty such great software is not able to export.

Does this still persist at V15?
Can someone give me some suggestion about which software to use for final compression?

Handbrake cant read the format and I hatr command line for ffmpg.

Did download virtualdub2 for example but didn't test it by now.

Solved that as well Resolves bad h264 implementation was the reason.