Hey, you forgot to tell people to make sure and plug the external SSD into the fastest USB port that they have on their computer. Because you always use Macs, you might forget that other people may still have some slower USB ports on their computers. And, you will get the best results if the external SSD is compatible with Thunderbolt 3 or 4 and you can plug it into a Thunderbolt 3 or 4 port.
Very good question. That also takes some management. But I'd be interested to see what the solution is, because that drive is also going to eventually fill up and slow down.
Is there any easy way to calculate just how much cache & proxy space one would need, based upon the total length of all one's clips and the file format chosen for proxies and caches? Preferably, something right in Davinci Resolve, but some kind of web-calculator or small app would do. Yes, I know, people can look up the file format's MB/minute of footage, and do all the math themselves. But, you know how people are. We want something simpler and quicker. That is what we invented computers for in the first place, you know. In lieu of that, do you have just some general guidelines as to the number of terabytes per hour of clips? Is a 1 TB external SSD going to fill up too fast to be useful?
Hi you mentioned at the end there will be errors if the cache external SSD is not connected. In this case, would it be possible to regenerate the cache files on another external SSD or internal SSD and continue the project? Maybe if the 1st cache SSD is lost or faulty? Thank you!
Wow! That's a great idea thx. Btw I have a question. I'm a documentary filmmaker and I'm using p4k and 6k, both @ 5:1 compression, I need a pretty powerful computer. I know MAC is a beast but to get a good one I think I'll need something like m3 max or ultra which costs a lot. Compared to PC with specs like i9 14th gen, 128gib ram, rtx 4090,... The question is do I need that much? P.S: I don't want to proxy or whatever
Alert, There should be a distinction between Mac Studio with M1 or M2 machine, the workflow will be store in your internal SSD, external has too much throughput, so there will be a bottleneck.
Hey film simplified. I noticed a bug in Davinci Resolve when applying noise reduction, my render times on M2 Pro mac mini increase into ridiculous times - up to 1 day, sometimes 8-10 hours with a little bit of noise reduction applied. When I turn off noise reduction the render only takes one hour (barely one hour). Have you encountered such bug? My files are already caching into external SSD drives.
Very useful information. I agree with you. Ideally your external SSD is hooked up to the fastest port on your machine. Do you have recommendations for a fast, reliable, inexpensive external SSD?
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Hey, you forgot to tell people to make sure and plug the external SSD into the fastest USB port that they have on their computer. Because you always use Macs, you might forget that other people may still have some slower USB ports on their computers. And, you will get the best results if the external SSD is compatible with Thunderbolt 3 or 4 and you can plug it into a Thunderbolt 3 or 4 port.
Any idea what minimum read/write speed is required for a disk to use a cache file storage for DaVinci? Thks.
USB3 on PC will do 5GB sec :)
Super helpful, thank you so much. I do this with a dedicated, fast internal M.2 SSD drive and it works very well
I just did the same.
Thank you for this was very helpful especially towards the end of the video :D
So after we finish an old project, how do we delete the cache files properly??
Very good question. That also takes some management. But I'd be interested to see what the solution is, because that drive is also going to eventually fill up and slow down.
@@rollvideo yes i am curious to see! I am trying to find old project caches so I can remove it and add more storage again.
Great tutorial! What format should I use when I’m constantly switching between Mac and windows?
Is there any easy way to calculate just how much cache & proxy space one would need, based upon the total length of all one's clips and the file format chosen for proxies and caches? Preferably, something right in Davinci Resolve, but some kind of web-calculator or small app would do. Yes, I know, people can look up the file format's MB/minute of footage, and do all the math themselves. But, you know how people are. We want something simpler and quicker. That is what we invented computers for in the first place, you know.
In lieu of that, do you have just some general guidelines as to the number of terabytes per hour of clips? Is a 1 TB external SSD going to fill up too fast to be useful?
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"Trackable Callout Titel" with image and text would be helpful.
Does something like this exist ?
Hi you mentioned at the end there will be errors if the cache external SSD is not connected. In this case, would it be possible to regenerate the cache files on another external SSD or internal SSD and continue the project? Maybe if the 1st cache SSD is lost or faulty? Thank you!
Yes, that is exactly what you can do.
Wow! That's a great idea thx.
Btw I have a question. I'm a documentary filmmaker and I'm using p4k and 6k, both @ 5:1 compression, I need a pretty powerful computer. I know MAC is a beast but to get a good one I think I'll need something like m3 max or ultra which costs a lot. Compared to PC with specs like i9 14th gen, 128gib ram, rtx 4090,...
The question is do I need that much?
P.S: I don't want to proxy or whatever
Alert, There should be a distinction between Mac Studio with M1 or M2 machine, the workflow will be store in your internal SSD, external has too much throughput, so there will be a bottleneck.
my internal drive has 7000mbps read write. it never even goes 10% of that. the g card is the bottle neck.
Hey film simplified. I noticed a bug in Davinci Resolve when applying noise reduction, my render times on M2 Pro mac mini increase into ridiculous times - up to 1 day, sometimes 8-10 hours with a little bit of noise reduction applied. When I turn off noise reduction the render only takes one hour (barely one hour). Have you encountered such bug? My files are already caching into external SSD drives.
Why is that a big? It's very computational
Internal or external usb ssd ?
Both, but you use a dedicated external one because it degrades the SSD TBW. 2TB that has no other data is better than 1TB from my experience.
Very useful information. I agree with you. Ideally your external SSD is hooked up to the fastest port on your machine. Do you have recommendations for a fast, reliable, inexpensive external SSD?
Samsung T7. and use a thunderbolt 4 or USB 4 cable
Any idea what minimum read/write speed is required for a disk to use a cache file storage for DaVinci? Thks.@@AndieNow
Just get M1 Mac and you sorted.
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