Question: Even the proxy/opt. media are not smoother

Hello,

Please,

( I'm working at 4kvideo with external harddrive. I have Davinci 17, MacBook pro, 2,6 GHz, 8 GB ram - It's not as old, but also not the newsest)

The 4k videos are not smooth, (best its when i play preview in the media pool), but when I play it at full screen - it's slow/freezing etc..),,, and when I put the video in timeline it's even worse... It's probably becouse of my computer and 4K, I understand... But when I made Proxy or Optimized Medium (I also try very small quality),,, it didn't help... Yes, the quality is lower, but the playback isn't any more smoother. (the converted videos are rendering on the external harddrive, not to my compute,, becouse of the space),, - I need to work with 10tb of video material you know.....

Please can you help me?
I was watching many videos and forums, but I didn't find where is the problem. I really tried many things, but nothing...

Thank you very much!
Haloiam

What sort of external drive are your files coming from? 4k is a lot of data and your drive could be the bottleneck. Also rendering to the same drive as the original clips will slow things down.
Internal SSDs are a better option.

What sort of external drive are your files coming from? 4k is a lot of data and your drive could be the bottleneck. Also rendering to the same drive as the original clips will slow things down.
Internal SSDs are a better option.

Thanks,

Even I tried it only on mac,, without external disk,, it's the same.. :/ not smooth at all,, even the proxy aren't smooth...strange

8 GB RAM is insufficient for Resolve, and then, you don't even mention your GPU.

8 GB RAM is insufficient for Resolve, and then, you don't even mention your GPU.

Thank you and sorry. It's Intel Iris 1536 MB

You can try a timeline in small HD (720). But 4K is definitely too much for the poor thing.