Why I Will NEVER Use Optimized Media AGAIN In Davinci Resolve!

DAVINCI RESOLVE 17 HAS PROXY GENERATION. THIS IS NOT RELEVANT IN DR17. DR 16 DIDNT HAVE THE PROXY GENERATION.

Why I Will NEVER Use Optimized Media AGAIN In Davinci Resolve********* There are many ways to create proxies in Davinci Resolve, most people use Optimized media, but in this Davinci Resolve tutorial you will learn a BETTER method of Creating Proxies that allows you to share and work remotely without any issues at all! Also this method offers SMALL file sizes! Learn all of this and more in this weeks Davinci Resolve tutorial!

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DaVinci Resolve is a fully-featured video post-production package that allows users to edit, color correct, color grade, and render a video project—all in the same package.

In this Davinci resolve tutorial you are going to learn the BEST METHOD for Creating Proxies in Davinci Resolve. Usually I do Davinci Resolve effects but today we are going to be working on the davinci resolve workflow side of stuff! Enjoy this video all about why you should not use Optimized media In Davinci Resolve!

[lucasfit]

Yo I liked and subbed and I think EVERYBODY should do it because I've been watching you for a long time without being subbed. You can pin this if you want <3

[larryelder]

Muuuuch easier to just continue using the Optimize Media method, and simply purge the Cache folder when done with the project. That solves the "taking too much space" issue.

[BillyRybka]

Hey everyone! JUST SO YOU ALL KNOW, THIS IS A VIDEO ABOUT A DIFFERENT PROXY METHOD. I personally only use this method and Will never go back to optimized media because of it. So realize that this is also personal preference. But its based off of Experience and performance

I really hope this helps you all Edit Faster! I have been using this exact method for a month now and it has Increased my editing speeds and even allowed me to get other people to help me with video because I didnt have to send them all of my Raw footage, i just sent my proxies instead!

[Toramt]

One of the reasons Optimized Media is so large is it renders to a codec that doesn't perform cross-frame compression. This allows you to edit frame-by-frame without the codec having to scan backwards in time to find the all the data it needs to render the current frame. H.264 is optimized for streaming a video forward. With h.264 proxies you'll see reduced performance when scrubbing a video due to the extra/variable processing required.

[airdiamond]

I watched this earlier today, but figured it was something I’d never use because optimized media seemed to be working okay. (I’m a Davinci newbie, and I really appreciate your videos.) Anyway, my task today was to go through about fifty video files add to a timeline the best moments from each. Turns out, they were 4K h.265 and my computer was not having it. Generating optimized media was resulting in errors, and there was no way I could do the work with the native files. I remembered your video and I tried it: I’m sold! It was easy to isolate the few file formats I had, and to create the proxies. It was easy to do the relinks, and the editing was like butter. Linking the originals was easy, and the timeline rendered without problem. Thank you!

[AttractionSpot]

After spending 30 minutes transcoding it down to just over 400 MB it still lags when previewing the video when editing.

[techlessYT]

Sending small proxies to other people for them to edit is probably the key feature here. This is not only way faster, but protects your video property from being illegally published in full quality.
I'm not really sold on using this to speed up my own editing workflow though. But it's always great to know alternative methods, so thanks Billy!

[GhostOfCaldera]

I don’t know if I’m sold on this method. I get the file sizes are smaller but it’s still in a compressed codec that will make your pc work. But I’ll try it out

[paulcamilleri]

Dear Billy I like how you present your tutorials and like you Channel but on this you are a bit out! Every Pro knows that Intra-Frame CODECS are the best CODECS to use whilst editing! H.264 and H.265 (Inter-frame) are compressed file formats used primarily for Delivery ie YouTube FaceBook etc!
Having said this there is a variant of H.264 that some DSLRs can shoot called ALL I which might work better! As someone mentioned below you could use DNxHR LB which is a bit bigger but a LOT better than H.264!!! This does not mean that if you have crappy footage It will become better it means that the nature of how the file is stored is Better.
Intra-Frame or Intermediate CODECS like DNxHD, DNxHR, ProRes. or Cineform compress each frame individually that results in a bigger files but smoother playback even on old systems. The simple explanation of H.264 or Interframe is that, for each frame, the codec only captures what has changed between this frame and the previous frame. If the video doesn’t include a lot of motion, then this means that the difference between this frame and the last frame is just a few pixels, so all it stores is a few pixels Discarding the other lot without the movement that is why it is so small!! This make it a LOT harder for the editor to cope with!!

Cutting a long story Short you could use the workflow you explained in this video but instead of Transcoding to H.264 with low Bitrate you use DNxHR LB if you do not want large files on Windows or ProRes LT on Mac!


Keep up the good work and Stay Safe!!

[PaigeMTL]

What's up with the "you should NEVER"? The reason there are so many optimization strategies is because there is a time and a place for each. Not working with a team? Have a large scratch disk? Work on one project at a time? Have a machine that struggles with compressed formats? Any combination of those scenarios mean you're better off hitting optimize media and going to get lunch. No accidental rendering out the proxies, easy toggling to HQ when needed for color correction, no storing the proxies long term, adding more footage doesn't mean this process each time, you don't have footage missing and not know until you go to swap back etc.

[RDMracer]

Watching this while waiting for optimised media to be generated

[SS-fstw]

Yo brother man!! Thank you so so so much for this tips. Was trying to get my footage to scrub across the timeline for a week. Editing was seeming like a distant dream. Applied your skills and ended editing my video in 1 hr flat. Exporting now. Thanks again bro. Very appreciated.

[SuperEliasTM]

This is completely perfect for Multicamera Editing. I could play 16 shots of a music video at the same time with little to no lag. Super helpful for Weddings too and has saved me a huge headache.

[yuriajones]

I discovered this method several weeks ago, and it's been my go-to proxy method ever since. Thanks for sharing.

[Leoiswhoo]

This is a life saver! Normally I just click the generate proxies button but it was not working, so this alternative method really came to my rescue 😭🙏 Thank you!

[dustymccord]

great video. I thought I would point out that you can use a smart bin to create a bin that will automatically show all mov files in your project.
That way you can click in one place and just select all. This would make it easier to swap out all the mov files.

[sorinbanu]

Great job Billy! just one remark: you forgot to specify that the "encoder" option (Native or NVIDIA) is available only in STUDIO version of Davinci Resolve (the free edition has no encoder options)

[mimir-japan]

Well done indeed Billy! One reason I have still not been changing completely from Premier to Resolve is proxies. Now that excuse us gone. Informative, helpful, clear and concise advice! And friendly too. Thank you!

[TGormania]

I will try this out. Thanks for the info. My 1TB went to sh!t using optimized media.

[Vorobiov_Evgeny]

Optimized media is not for making smaller files, optimized medai endcodes your footage into a editing codec (DNXHR or Prores) and you can select its size and resolution aswell (in your project settings before the encode). And then working with optimized media handles part of the load (you dont have to encode footage for previews) or even if you encode you medita into a good bitrate (like dnxhrhq) you can even use it for render and speed it up.

So basically you misuse optimized media. Working with some types of footage is much better with optimized or I usually just encode all the footage into DNXHR before even start.

Also you cannot grade your proxies properly and you can grade optimized media if you choose propper quality.

Dig into it its a good piece of knowladge