5 TIPS for SMOOTH & FAST PLAYBACK (and Editing!) in DaVinci Resolve 18

I’ve got 5 Tips that will fix SLOW, CHOPPY & LAGGING PLAYBACK in DaVinci Resolve 18! By changing these few things, you will get buttery smooth playback in Resolve so you can focus on making awesome edits!

0:00 Smooth & Fast Playback!
0:31 Tip #1
1:20 Tip #2
2:29 Tip #3
3:14 Tip #4
4:19 Make Sure to CHECK THIS!
6:02 Tip #5
7:48 Tip #5A Bonus
8:23 Tip #5B Bonus
8:51 Tip #6 BONUS!

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[glengreenman]

Regarding tip #3: if you right-click the bypass icon, you can select to bypass only color grades or fusion, instead of both.

[DancedZikrNZ]

Another tip. I generally only use a small portion of my source clips after my initial rough cut. So I do my rough cut and then use Media Management to copy (losslessly), *trim* and *relink* a new much reduced set of source clips. This often reduces the size of source clips by 50 - 75%. Having done that I generate proxy media (as you suggest) and because the source has been trimmed it is much faster and the proxies take up much less room on my SSD.

[One_Pun]

You are saving my hobby and the quality of my free time. Thank you.

[Adventdarklink]

Had a big project! The 1/4 playback saved my day!!!! Thank you!

[AziUnderwater]

Awesome tips !!! Thank You !! After following your tips even the reverse playback was faster.

[gtjdbydave]

Your videos have noticeably gotten better. Thanks for all the advice

[luigibombastico]

Does it make sense to convert all media into optimized files, even if they are not that big?

[GaryCunninghamyouareenough]

Awesome as always, Jason - the studio looks 🔥
Great video man🙏🏻🤟

[LiveFreeOrDRUMHard]

Thanks my man! This helped fix my issues. Great vid!

[ukaszniemiec]

Brilliant. Thank you man for this video.

[Nocturnal_]

You always rock buddy. Really appreciate your efforts ❤️❤️❤️

[BeyondtheMovingPictureStudios]

Thank you for making this video. I forgot some of these smooth playback processes!

[RandomDude]

Thank you so much, just with the tip#1 everything is so smooth now awesome great video!

[geodude]

appreciate you bro and all your tips and shortcuts

[tapocketa]

Really useful and to the point. Thank you 🙂

[CrimeTVro]

Thx man !
You continue to be extraordinary!

[erskinhansen]

Here's a tip many have missed... Under "Power Options" (Windows) > Change your Power Plan to "High Performance" or "Ultimate Performance". If your PC doesn't have those options search Google/YouTube to enable those options. This problem plagued my PC's speed no matter how many tips I tried from videos like this one - The only reason I kept looking for an answer is cause I spent way too much on a custom build to have slow-down issues lol. I was right. Changed that power plan setting and my performance was like night and day. Your welcome.

[GiuliaonGasoline]

Thanks! I tried these... let's see if it works!

[PineyWoodsCajun]

Just learning this software-- super helpful tips. Much appreciated.

[gUwU]

This helped instantly, thank you so much!