The free version of DaVinci Resolve won’t play 10-bit 4:2:2 footage, so your clips import as audio files and the viewer goes black. Here is the free Handbrake fix that saves you the $300 Studio upgrade.
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Every part you need to build a 4K video editing PC for under a thousand dollars, why I picked each one, and the upgrade parts worth spending a little more on if you have the budget.
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Proxies make 4K editing smooth on any computer, even an old one on a slow external drive. Here are the exact settings, how to batch generate them in the background, and the one quirk that breaks them.
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Shot at 24, 30 and 60 and now you have to slow every clip down one at a time? You don’t. Here is how to reinterpret all of your footage to one frame rate in a few clicks, and the proxy warning that comes with it.
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The Precision 5680 is the Dell laptop I’d actually trust to color grade on, which is more than I can say for the XPS 17 I owned before it.
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Final Cut editors don’t hate the program, they’re just not excited about it anymore. Four reasons why, and what Apple could do about it.
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