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Hello, I am a new user. Just took a one month course on camera angle, and need to edit my project for the assessment due on 18 Sept. I am so happy to find a free version of DaVinci Resolve, however I have problem installing it in my Lenovo Thinkpad. Here's the screenshot of the notifications, the setting which I am not sure what to change, as well as my computer's info. Please help.

Hi.

I can't see you Images.

And I don't know where you downloaded Resolve from?
Here is links to the official Free Resolve 15.0.1 for Windows:

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/suppor ... 49/Windows

And to the official Free Resolve 12.5.6 for Windows:

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/suppor ... 88/Windows

As I say I can't see your Images?

But for me a Lenovo Thinkpad is normally a Tiny Laptop with specification far under recommendation.
I don't know what resolution you want to work in. For 4K do a normally recommend a dedicated graphics cards with 8-11 GB of vRam. For HD or smaller, can you do with the Intel internal graphics built into the CPU, even if it is slower. On a few Laptop can it be necessary to manual select OpenCL to use the built in Intel GPU.

And I don't know how much RAM you have in your Thinkpad?
But the recommendation is at least 16 GB. May be you can get away with a little lower.

If I am right with my guesses, can you may be try the 12.5.6 version of Resolve. As its Hardware requirement is smaller.

Regards Carsten.

Hello, thank you! I have solved this problem earlier by installing my graphic card driver. You are right, this tiny laptop is not good enough for Davinci Resolve, but I have to make do with it and meet the deadline in 2 days! I will refrain myself from trying out all those ram-intensive effects and colour grading until I have a more powerful computer. However, I got other issues now.

Question 1: this tiny screen cuts off the bottom of Davinci Resolve, and the interface is at its smallest already. I watch a tutorial about colour grading, I just need to do a simple white balance, which the dropper is at the bottom which is cut off. Can I get this dropper or white balance function somewhere else in the task bar?

Question 2: I saw that most tutorials have their audio timeline neat and tidy, with just one audio track for each of their video clip. But I have 8!? 8 audio tracks for each clip, you can imagine how messy the timeline is. How do I collapse the 8 audio tracks into one easy to drag bar within the timeline? Or how can I import media restricting the audio tracks to only 2-4?

Thank you.