Davinci Resolve 15 Public Release Woes

Hello,

I'm a Producer (along with editor) at a marketing agency in Edmonton, Alberta called Nordic Media. Happy to make new friends

Big fan of BMD and Resolve. We have been slowly weening away from Adobe Premiere / After Effects for the last two years. We have always used Resolve to do final grading, but now with the audio and fusion built-in I feel this will significantly improve our workflow.

With the public release we finished our new editing suite and even got a "ultra studio mini monitor" for our 120 inch projector, getting pumped to grind out some serious editing.

Jumping in to Studio 15, noticing a ton of woes. Crashing seems to be very problematic at this point. I'm sure it's on the radar, but I would actually say that I think we are going to go back a few beta versions.

Hoping for some bleeding hot fixes soon.

Matthew Altheim
Executive Producer
Nordic Media
www.nordic.media

Nordic Media is a marketing & creative agency in Edmonton, Alberta focusing on advertising through breathtaking video production & film.

If you're using 15.0.1, try rolling back to 15.

With the public release we finished our new editing suite and even got a "ultra studio mini monitor" for our 120 inch projector, getting pumped to grind out some serious editing.

Post your hardware configuration (CPU, GPU, RAM, disk i/o), operating system, and what kind of source files you're using. That can have a major effect on speed and stability.

Note that the Mini-Monitor is at the very low end of monitoring options for Resolve... but it can work to a point.

Version 15 is definitely more demanding than earlier versions like 12.5 (which I'd still recommend for weaker hardware). But with my 8 GB VRAM GPU and a decent mid-level Mac the release version has been very reliable for me. I dared to move a 4.5 hours project with lots of different media and quite some NR needed to 15 right after release and it has not crashed since.

The only area I still avoid is the Fusion tab, but even that is improved with every update.

I'm on a Mac Pro with 64gb and 6gb VRAM, so I'd hope it would be sufficient.

The biggest problem I find is cache / fusion. Seems to come to a standstill as soon as I do a tiny bit of clone painting.

I switched from 15.0.1 to 15.0 and can confirm the crashes stopped. I have not had a single crash since switching back versions.

I'm on a Mac Pro with 64gb and 6gb VRAM, so I'd hope it would be sufficient.

When someone on the forum asks for details they mean specific models. Hardware is way more important in resolve than other nles.