Arjuna wrote:Uli Plank wrote:By "shrink" do you mean the image size or the amount of data?
the amount of data it only reduced to 80% of original size
To me, saving 80% of the size
is a proxy. Maybe we have different ideas of what a proxy is. Me, I would just say "buy bigger drives." DNxHR LB is a really, really tiny codec (120MBps), not too far off from ProRes LT (102MBps). You could go ProRes Proxy (45MBps), which is even less. In all cases, you could manually create all these Proxies in Resolve, link your entire project to Proxies, edit the whole thing, lock it, then relink the files to the camera originals for final color and delivery via several methods (either the relink command or Reconform from Bins. It can work.
A big advantage of creating Proxy files manually is you can customize them with Timecode burn-ins, scene & take burn-ins, circled/not-circled status, shoot dates, project names, camera roll/drive, sound roll/drive, all that other kind of stuff. And you can precisely control aspect ratio and letterbox/non-letterbox shots. This is frequently done by the major Hollywood studios: