No frame available for media out1

I am on Davinci Resolve Studio Beta 5. I am on a MacBook Pro M1 with 64 GB ram.

Hi, I always put the same fusion composition at the end of my videos and on the edit page of Davinci Resolve, and also when I export the video, I am now getting this message at the bottom of the fusion composition :no frame available for media out1.

I tried to create a new fusion composition and I'm still getting the same message on an empty fusion composition.
I also found the same message on previous videos that I have already exported (the message wasn't visible until today and the previous videos).

Can anyone please tell me what the issue might be?
Could this be a problem with the latest version of Davinci Resolve?

You need media out 1 node to be connected to something in your fusion composition before you can see it in other pages, like edit page and color page. Otherwise you see black screen.

If you are getting :no frame available for media out1. maybe its some new message warning of this in beta versions. But normally you would need media out 1 for output out of fusion page to other pages.

Do you have media out1 in your fusion composition / page and what is connected to it?

Hi there,
Thank you for your reply.


It is all connected up, to a srectangle node, a background node and a text node, etc. I have used this fusion composition many times before.
I have attached it for your perusal.

Separately, as I was testing to see if it was only the fusion composition I have used before causing the problem, I noticed the message on a brand-new fusion composition, when I imported into the edit page.

I actually managed to get rid of it by cutting out the moment where it says: No frame available for media out1

It sounds like it could be a bug?

Thank you.

It is all connected up, to a srectangle node, a background node and a text node, etc. I have used this fusion composition many times before. I have attached it for your perusal.

Yeah, thanks. Looks correct from the screenshot. I though maybe it was not correctly connected, but looks good from what I can see.

Separately, as I was testing to see if it was only the fusion composition I have used before causing the problem, I noticed the message on a brand-new fusion composition, when I imported into the edit page.

I actually managed to get rid of it by cutting out the moment where it says: No frame available for media out1

It sounds like it could be a bug?

Thank you.

I was thinking you could try that, but seems you have done it already. Possible bug. You are on officially beta software so it could be. I can't replicate the behaviour on 18.6.6 and as you have noted yourself, the same composition worked in the past.

Short of something else not mentioned here is the culprit, lets assume its a bug. I think there is a forum section for new beta somewhere around here, where you could repost this.

By the way. Can you do me a favor. Can you check in the new beta5 in fusion page. Last beta version I had tried was beta 3 and fusion page was missing proxy menu.

When you right mouse click on the time ruler , at the very beginning of the ruler, there should be proxy menu pop up, but it was missing in the resolve 19 beta. Curious if its still missing in beta5. Could you please check. Thanks.

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Hi there,

I will report it in the bug section of the beta forum.

I right clicked on the ruler menu and I can confirm it is still missing.

Thank you for your help.

Hi there,

I will report it in the bug section of the beta forum.

I right clicked on the ruler menu and I can confirm it is still missing.

Thank you for your help.

Thanks for checking it out. That is a bit worrying, its in beta 5 and its still missing.

The same thing is happening to me on multiple fusion clips. It's even happening when I'm using a saver/loader in fusion, directly to my media out.

I'm on PC with public beta 5.

It must be a bug.

Windows 11 Pro, Resolve 19b5

TLDR: On my Fusion transition, I deleted the MediaOut1 node and the problem disappears.

I'm pretty sure it's a bug. I have the same issue with a transition effect that I've used countless times. The effect still works but renders with the warning message. When I inspect the transition by editing it in the Fusion page, the transition and MediaOut1 are floating nodes that CANNOT be connected.

I can reproduce this by creating a project in 1080p, loading Fusion transitions, then switch the project resolution to 2160p. To resolve this issue temporarily, I replaced the transitions with the same ones.

Closing out of Resolve and reloading the project, the error returns, but only on some transitions. To get a message-free render, I had to replace the transitions in question, and render immediately after.

This is what is generating the error. I cannot connect the effect to MediaOut1

Displays error

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Once I drop the same transition over the previous one, it reconnects the MediaOut1

No error

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UPDATE: Editing the Fusion transition, I just deleted the MediaOut1 node and the problem went away. Even after restarting Resolve, the fix persists and no problem. I can even render the project out with no error messages.

I am experiencing the same thing but with a little twist.

I am running DR beta 5 on Windows 11 Pro (version 23H2) with 64GB ram.

I created a separate timeline to create the fusion clip. It is running fine there. When I open the fusion clip up all the nodes are there and do what I want them to do.

Then when I drag the clip into the production timeline I get the "No frame available for MediaOut1" message.

From the production timeline, I tried opening the clip in Fusion. When I do, all I see is a MediaOut1 node. There is nothing else in the node window of the fusion editor. Just to see what would happen, I added a text node and connected it to MediaOut1. That worked. I saw the text from the node I created but none of what the fusion clip had in the original incarnation.

When I go back to the working area timeline and try to edit the clip all the nodes are present.

And, just to cover my bases, I turned the fusion clip into a compound clip. No joy. The same error message appeared.

Maybe the above will help with a solution.

Exactly the same problem after going from 19b3 to 19b5. But I can't fix it by removing mediaOut1 and re-adding MediaOut1.

MacOS

Hi there,

I will report it in the bug section of the beta forum.

I right clicked on the ruler menu and I can confirm it is still missing.

Thank you for your help.

Does it help if I do a +1 in the beta forum?

One more update to share on this. Given the setup mentioned in my previous post, I copied the nodes from the Fusion clip that was working into the one that was showing the error. This latter clip began to do what I wanted.

I had made a template in earlier version of 19 for some text effects that I needed multiple times on my edit, all that templates showing media out error, If I new template from titles it works fine. so the titles that are already in the timeline are all showing this error, If I open that title in fusion the connections are broken and can't connect template to media out,

deleting mediaout and then undoing it sometimes works...

the template is showing correctly though but the media out error is showing up in rendering...

is there a way to disable the error message?

downgrade to beta4 of 19 solves the problem

Ran into this problem today, here's a few things I noticed and how I fixed it (beta5):

My Macro (imported as DRFX had the same message display with "no frame available for media out1". When I opened it on the fusion page I noticed the macro had three identical .output connectors, the one that was connected did not display on the mediaout1 it was connected to. Trying all three, one of them did.

I re-exported my macro and noticed that the two loader nodes that referred to external files automatically were checked for "output", as well as the final merge node that goes into the output. So I deselected the output checkmarks for both loader nodes and made sure there aren't any other nodes with an active output other than the final merge node. That did the trick. Now the new template only has one output linked to the mediaout1 and everything works and no more message.

Not sure if there was anything changed during the betas that lead to the outputs being activated, but at least this is how I solved it without downgrading or any other tricks.

Hope this helps!

Day zero
All projects working. Started new project, saw update thought alright why not last thing to do before bed.
Updated to 19.0B Build 59

Day one
Back to started project in edit page clicked on my Fusion comp and blank screen with No frame available for MediaOut1
Went back over which nodes weren't connecting by selecting the screen to view and found some media in nodes needed replacing and a group node needed to be ungrouped with the faulty node removed then grouped again. Those projects are working now. Continue to work

Day two
The work done Day one has a blank screen with No frame available for MediaOut1
Found and replaced the MediaIn nodes and it was working again. Why does the media fail to connect after a restart?

Saw this error message for the first time also, on the release of 19 Studio, so it's still there. Bear with me, I know the example is different, but I think the reasons may be similar, although this might not speak to the particular bug that the poster is encountering.

It is happening to me on the final frames of Text+ layers (which are essentially Fusion compositions) on which I noticed previously (on 18.6) that they render black on the very last frame, no matter what I do. Sometimes they do it just because, sometimes they do it when several are layered on top of each other. They always do it when I try to fade them out using the handles and there are additional Fusion layers around. My workaround had been to use a cross dissolve to a disabled clip or solid color generator. Now this same Text+ is giving me that new error message, making me think that it's simply a new error message where previously, something wrong just happened (i.e. black). So the bug, if it's a bug, is - in my case - not the message itself but whatever triggers it.

Annoyingly, I can't find where I might be able to turn off the message for the purposes of rendering, because my workaround no longer works, since I get a 1-frame render of the new message in the middle of my timeline. My new workaround is to create a longer compound clip of the text layers and then do a cross fade of this compound clip with a dummy clip. This works as long as all the text layers fade at once, but it doesn't address the issue itself.

Actually, the poster who encountered this message flashing in the middle of their timeline could put just the Fusion composition into a compound clip and then drag-cut the last frame of the compound clip. That should work for that situation.

Been getting this same error message as well.

Loaded a 3rd party animated title that was working when i placed it on the timeline in the Edit page, then it started giving the error out of nowhere, so I went in to the Fusion page to find the Media Out node not connected! Upon trying to reconnect the nodes back together(from the Effect node on the left of the Media out node), despite me selecting the effect nodes out put connector, the media out node connector is being selected or a connector line from nothing!!

To make matters worse, I tried to delete the media out node and add a new one and no media out node shows up!!

Digging into it a little deeper than I care to...

I manged to get a MediaOut added by the right click menu instead of using Ctrl Spacebar, it named it MediaOut2, which seemed strange as there is no MediaOut1 node, at least not visible, which speaks to the weird unconnected line from previous post.

So one solution I found that works is to copy all the nodes before the MediaOut and then reset the Fusion Composition under the Fusion menu, delete anything you don't need then paste your nodes back into the node flow.

Render in place / Apple ProRes 4444 - helped

We are having the same issue on 3 different instances of Resolve. I can't believe they haven't patched this yet.

Experiencing the same issue. the deleting the Mediaout node does the trick for now until its fixed

Using the official release of DR

Im getting the No frame available for media out1 when I add any of the marcos I have created.

its not only on the new ones i made in Version 19 but ones i created months ago

Not getting it on the actual Fusion comp in the edit page only when I create a macro, export and try and use in on a clip.
Its accross the whole duration of the clip...

I'm running the latest Studio version 19

Had this again this week when I created a newer version of one of my macros. Most tutorials explain that when creating the macro you have to exclude the media out node when exporting, but I realised this lead to the bug with the message and when you check the macro it is not connected and did not have a correct output connector. I exported the macro again, this time including the original media out node and then my macro worked flawlessly in Resolve Studio 19 final. Maybe this helps anyone here.

Unistalled Version 19 and when back to a beta version everything Ok again...

Found Resolve 19 to be buggy as heck especially Fusion, worked fine for one project then unworkable in another. Went back to 18.6.6 until further notice.

Just updated Version 19 with the new update, still have the message.....

No Frame available for mediaout 1

I have the same issue with 19.0.0 and 19.0.1.

On Resolve Studio 19, I think I might have seen something similar that I haven't seen on previous version that might be related to this, if so its a bug, and for me it happened when there are multiple fusion compositions on the timeline. If its one fusion composition its fine. More than one, I see problems, but I haven't been able to replicate it each time. for the rest of the people here, try multiple fusion compositions vs one and does anything change?