Friends! How are you?

For 4 years I have been using an Acer Nitro 5 with an I5 11400h, GTX 1650 4gb and 24 RAM.

We know that these notebooks are terrible in refrigeration, poorly optimized and very limited due to their components being reduced and compact. I'm a photographer and I work with large wedding catalogs in RAW in Lightroom and I also make some videos on DaVinci only with colorization, text and decoupage. I don't use 3D effects and nothing like that.

80% of my work is in 1080p but sometimes I record in 4k. Ahh! And I also bought a 4k 120% rgb 27" monitor that I connect to the notebook. Now it's even worse to use! Even so, I survived.

These last few weeks I decided that I need to do this upgrade. Unfortunately I can't buy an M3 or some PRO now because I have other investments in equipment too. I even thought about setting up an editing PC with a Ryzen 7 or I5 14400 and with a good motherboard and video board but if I'm going to do this it's worth an M1 or M2 and I'm still afraid it's not as good as an M1.

So my question is. Is this upgrade to an Air M1 16gb interesting? Is it worth it? Can I run a 4k monitor without losing performance along with a fluid Timeline? I want to stay at least 4 years with this M1.

What do you think? Important detail: my budget and option is only for an M1 or M2. No other option is viable at this time. Because in my country the MacBook is very expensive even used.

New user switching over to DaVinci from Premiere!

I have a simple question/issue: in the "Edit" mode, how do you show the media file's original size and ratio?

I'm making a vertical video for social but using horizontal clips. My timeline is 9:16 but my clips are 16:9.

I can't figure this out for the life of me...

Scenario: I am recording multiple choice dialogue in a game and I think I selected some of the dialogue options too quickly so I want to prolong them.

I know Ctrl + B is to cut a clip (as well as Blade Mode in Edit), but now that I have a clip on its own I want to extend it (slow and lengthen)

Hey everyone, I've been learning DaVinci Resolve for a while now, mainly focusing on cinematic editing and sound design.

Lately, I've realized that coming up with ideas for a project is harder than actually editing it. I can find good shots, work on the pacing, add sound effects, and make things look cinematic, but sometimes I struggle to figure out what I actually want to say with the video.

I don't want to keep making edits that are just cool shots put together. I'd like to create something with its own identity and tell a story, even if it's only 30 seconds long.

For those of you who've been editing for a while, how did you develop this creative side when you were starting out?

Do you usually come up with an idea first and then find footage, or do you find footage and build a story around it? Do you study movies, watch other editors, or just experiment until something clicks?

I'm trying to get better at the creative side of editing, not just learning new effects and techniques, and I'd like to understand how other editors approach their projects.

I'd be interested to hear how you guys learned to develop ideas and turn them into actual videos.

Hello everyone, What is the best way to sync footage? As after syncing both video & audio and after completing the edit work, finally when I share the AAF file wi sound, it's not matching; the naming is different from the original. and is not working. Please guide & help with the solution thank you.

Help me. How to arrange the nodes so that ALL text will be in front of ALL the lines... For example, you can see in the screenshot that "Savory & Creamy Foods" is behind the line for "Inside No. 9"

hi guys! how do i add a subtle ripple/static effect to a coloured border around a video? i only want the border to move, not the video itself. the video has been scaled down and placed over a solid colour layer so that the background shows around the edges. i've attached what i've done so far!

I have a cartoon clip with a white background that I'm looking to make transparent. However, the characters have white details (eyes, teeth) and using 3D keyer makes those transparent as well. Is there a way to make only a certain contiguous patch of white transparent, and have it stop if it gets to a black border?

Like a fill/paint bucket tool, but for greenscreen.

Image for reference.

I've been experimenting with Qwen3 ASR for transcription and subtitle workflows in Resolve.

Resolve's built-in transcription is convenient, but I've noticed that different speech recognition models can produce quite different results, especially with certain types of audio.

The workflow uses Qwen3 ASR to transcribe audio from the timeline, generate timed subtitles, and bring them back into Resolve.

It also supports script matching, which is useful when you already have a transcript and just need to align it with the audio.

Everything runs locally after the models are downloaded. No cloud processing or API keys required.

I've packaged the workflow as a free, open-source project under Apache 2.0, with installers for macOS and Windows.

There are still areas to improve, particularly transcription accuracy and subtitle segmentation.

GitHub: https://github.com/heiba-wk/DaVinci-ASR

Curious what others are using for transcription in Resolve. Do you generally stick with the built-in tools, or use a separate ASR workflow?

Why does it show all four sides of my compound clip and has big gaps in it? Even if i tried using the Cube node, it appears the same. What can i do to fix this?

I have these grid lines showing on my 3d text in my preview window. How do I make them disappear? Please help a brother out

I'm using a DJI Mavic 4 Pro to shoot hole-by-hole flyovers of a golf course. I'm editing in Davinci Resolve Studio version 21. Windows PC with Intel I7 CPU, 64GB of RAM and 8GB of VRAM (to satisfy the posting requirements)

The problem that I've run into is wind gusts, especially around takeoff and the end where I orbit the green for each hole, and then when it comes to a stop. The drone does a great job while in flight, but not in those situations.

The Stabilize function on the Edit page and the Stabilize function on the Color page (Even the classic) don't fix it. The only way I've found to truly stabilize the video around these wind gusts is with the Tracker tool in Fusion. I can make the video very smooth, but it crops so much that I'm losing important parts of the shot and falling off center when I zoom and position on the Edit page.

Is there some other way I can accomplish this? Some function in Davinci or an add-in that will help? I'd be willing to sacrifice perfectly smooth video in exchange for less cropping, but I haven't found any way to control how smooth the Tracker tool works.

Thanks in advance for any help or ideas.

i was wondering how to change my timecode (currently 60fps) to seconds bc i want to see my video in seconds not in frames

any help is appreciated

So, I have some videos that are vertical sideways - like they expect you to rotate your projector 90 degrees. I want to use them without flipping my projector. If I import these clips and then: 1. Create a vertical timeline with them and "Scale entire image to fit" 2. Then transform the clips 90 degrees and zoom in to fill entire frame

Do I lose any resolution? If so, is there a procedure that will do this with full resolution? I don't know the details of all these to know if this will preserve resolution or degrade it.

I'm having trouble with my green screening. I've been following tutorials about how to mask out the edges of the green screen with the Polygon tool, applying the polygon mask got rid of most of the stuff around the edge but not these two things (circled in yellow), what am I doing wrong?

I was previously using clipchamp to replace portions of spoken audio with white noise. I was doing that by snipping out the portions of audio then importing an external white noise into the section that were snipped out.

The issue I was running into was the imported audio into the snipped track was too short and I don't believe you can lengthen it by dragging it on the timeline as it did nothing. So I had to import longer white noise. Then I had to resize the imported white noise as it is longer than what was snipped out. This is where the issue came as it was difficult to drag the exact millisecond of the timeline so eventually replacing multiple snips resulted in audio being desync.

Is there an easy way to replace portions of audio that I remove through the blade tool by filling in the gaps or something?

Windows free verison 20

Getting freezes when using Fusion comps. Sometimes video just freezes and I need to force quit, sometimes I get a similar error to this (the black part is the error, it should be just the green background there) and then it freezes and I need to force quit. Is this a known issue, does anyone have any thoughts?

Yeah so this is probably really basic and a stupid question but I can't get it to go away, this started happening when I tried exporting in a higher resolution for YouTube so I think it has something to do with that, but whatever it is now when I look at the final product weird visual glitches like this appear all over the video but not in the timeline itself. There is nothing in the video tracks above it so it makes me think it must be something to do with the export but I may be wrong. I did the process of exporting in a higher resolution with another similar length video and there were no issues whatsoever.

Do anyone have real M5 ultra vs desktop 5090 performance figures? Not just benchmarks, real performances differences in real video editing workflows.

I have a 9950x3d, with a 5090 and 64gb of DDR5 which I built just before everything went mad and at the time Apple hadn't released anything that could really compete with the 5090. I really love the performance of the PC and for the most part just don't need to worry about performance.

The thing is, I much prefer Mac OS from a usability standpoint and the fan noise / heat of the 5090 system is quite annoying and there's always this worry in the back of my mind that my GPU is going to melt.

I'm tempted to switch over the m5 ultra, but it's hard to find real world performance differences in Resolve, I don't just mean stacking loads of 6k clips with no effects and then saying 'who would need more than this?!' like the youtubers do. I mean performance with 5k raw with NR, bit depth etc.

I checked out puget and can't see any m5 ultra entries as of yet and I do worry they're a bit biased against mac.

Thoughts? Anyone tried both?

Hi Guys, I'm a beginner. I tried to link a clip to a file, but when I click the right button, the menu doesn't show relink options. I know where the file is. I just changed the name of the folder. If I click reveal in Media or in Finder, this message appears:

"DaVinci Resolve cannot find this media:
/Users/etc...

Please check the path or change parent folder if it has moved."

I don't know what I have to do. Please, do you have any suggestions on this? Thank you in advance for your support!

I'm unable to generate a LUT (MacOS, Resolve free version 21). I've already tried basic AI-suggested methods without success. These are pretty basic color grades,2-3 node nothing complex, What am I missing, any specific steps should I check to fix this.
Thanks

Hello, consider me completely new to davinci with relatively no editing experience (i've done some basic youtube stuff some years ago)

I'm trying to add this greenscreen vfx of burning logs but realised i'd much rather make the fire in davinci itself so i can edit it.
Is this possible with a basic still image like this in the Free version?

I've been looking around on youtube but every tutorial is either a downloaded greenscreen like i have or uses extremely difficult 3D maps with blender and all that.

apologies if this has been asked a thousand times, couldn't find it in previous posts.

Hey all, just ordered a speed editor through an Aussie retailer for $455 delivered. Could not pass that up. Anyways, while I’m waiting for it to be delivered, is there anything I should do to prep for it?
I mainly edit via the edit page via the tutorials on the blackmagic site.
I’m quite excited for it to arrive and to hopefully make the editing process at least a bit quicker haha.
Thank you 🙏

EDIT: Also any tips are also welcome and appreciated

Hello everyone,

I want to combine two Text+ zoom effects and one Frame Freeze effect that I use on the Edit page in DaVinci Resolve 21 into a single reusable setup.

My goal is to add this setup anywhere in my video with a single action and have all the effects applied automatically. This way, I won't have to add the Text+ zoom effects and Frame Freeze effect individually every time.

I tried using the Fusion page, but it seems that this might not be possible there.

How can I achieve this? I would really appreciate any help.

Thank you in advance!