Marc Wielage wrote:Which hardware (CPU, GPU, RAM, disk I/O speed)? What specific version of Resolve? What OS? What source material? What timeline resolution? What framerate? How does your drive rate with Blackmagic Speed Test? Which GPU drivers are installed?
Is it possible you're using the free version of Resolve and you're using a difficult compressed video format, like H.264? I can only guess, since we don't have much info to go on. In general, I've never seen a fade-in or fade-out fail. I often prefer to use a cross-dissolve instead, because it gives me more control over start/stop time, plus I can go for a film-style fade instead of a linear/video-style fade.
It’s a Dell 8900 with an Intel(R) i7-6700k CPU @ 4.00ghz with 32GB RAM running windows 10 home. It has a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super card, and a Samsung SSD PM871 hard drive for the OS with my files stored on a WD external drive. Resolution is 1920x1080HD with a frame rate of 24. The card is pretty new so the GPU drivers are whatever it installed and if it automatically updates, then the most current. I don’t know anything about the BM speed test, how do i I run that?
It is the free version of DR 16, and it is a H.264 file (GoPro video). You got me thinking though so I converted the clip to an MP4 and still had the same issue. Then I dropped a simple JPEG in the timeline and tried the fade with that. Again, the handles move like it should fade, but in the playback it doesn’t fade. Seems to me I have used this same system and the fade worked fine so I am at a loss and think it must be some setting somewhere I accidentally changed. I don't know though, that's why I am asking.
I tried the cross dissolve but this is the last segment of the timeline. I want to just fade it out to black to do some type work and after it fades. Without another clip after it, it just bounces back into frame. Probably my limited skill set here.