
More and more phones and prosumer cameras, for instance, iPhone 8 or later, DJI Phantom/Mavic drone, GoPro HERO 8 Black, Canon XF 705 Camera can shoot 4K (2160x3840) videos using the HEVC/H.265 codec, which is much more efficient than H.264 when it comes to compress videos for saving space and reducing the pressure of bandwidth while data transferring. Turning off Hardware Accelerated Decoding fixes it and allows me to work better, but I would prefer having my GPU do the heavy lifting of decoding." Like, a few seconds of the actual video plays, and then media offline for like 0.5 - 3 seconds, then a few seconds of video, then media offline again, etc. If I keep hardware accelerated decoding checked in Preferences while working with them, I get seemingly random "media offline" placed all over my media. "So this only seems to happen with h.265 videos in Davinci Resolve Studio 16.2. This is my first go with h.265, anyone experienced this?" Unable to even read the file, keep getting "Media offline", tried 3 different clips, same issue on all of them. I can always figure out ways to hack my way to what I want, but I really want to learn more about the best way to do a quick and professional looking editing job (after hopefully getting professional looking footage)."Trying to read h.265 MP4 from Mavic 2 pro in Resolve 15 (not studio) in Win7.

If that's the best way, what's the best technique to do that? If not the best way, I'm open to some education. I suppose I could just generate one "master track" above all the others, find the clip I want and cut (or copy) it and get it up on the "master" track, linked so the movement still stays in time with the music. After I get each take on separate tracks and sync'd I would like to find the easiest fastest way to get the snippets cut out and linked together contiuously as if there were multiple cameras runnign simultaneously on one take with a guy on a switchboard that can switch views at random, like you might see on MTV videos. My plan at this moment is to run it start to finish multiple times using the music to sync all the clips. All the tracks will be sync'd via the music which will be indentical for each track. It's a dance and all of 3:13 long with multiple takes that I can edit to pop in and out of.



I've got a project that I'll be shooting and editing in a few weeks.
