“I directed a movie and now, I’m going to do the editing.”
Salma Hayek
Shortly after I posted my blog about the DiVinci Resolve editing system and how it was the perfect fit for our film a lot of problems began to arise. Technology always seems to be ironic in the least delightful ways. But I was determined to persist with using the system because of the amount of work I had already completed on it. I became determined, as Salma Hayek is, to edit the film I had helped to direct.
The first problem that arose was the system crashing. This occurred most often when I was first trying to load the system, when I was opening a video to edit, or when I was trying to use a complicated editing feature such as color correction or sound mixer.
The process of reopening the program after it had crashed was incredibly tedious, especially because there was no automatic save feature. I gained the habit of manually saving after every major edit I preformed and even utilized a keyboard short cut in order to do so (ctrl+s).
Soon this problem became more than tedious as the program began to not open at all. This was incredibly frightening because if I could not open the program I could not retrieve my videos or the edits that I had made to them. Before completely starting over and downloading a new editing software (yes I was considering starting completely over despite the rough cut being complete) I turned to YouTube yet again for help.
Luckily many YouTubers, who are more experienced both in video editing and software development, use this same editing software and had experienced the same problem. After watching just two videos I had found out what to do to fix my problem.
The best way I can describe the problem is a miscommunication between the DaVinci Resolve program and my graphics processing unit (NVIDIA GeForce GPU). Linked below is the video that taught me how to fix it.
Since I have been taught this fix I have been able to solve all of the problems I’ve come across just by disabling then reenabling my GPU. I guess the answer really was turning it off and back on again.
Resources:
Problem solved, Davinci resolve 16 not running problem. “Davinci Resolve 16 Not Running Problem. ||Davinci Keeps on Crashing While Opening||Problem Solved.” YouTube, 4 May 2019, youtu.be/C9lhMhVGp6M. Accessed 25 Mar. 2020.
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