Jay and Claude Resolve gives you three tools for smoother playback: timeline proxy resolution, optimized media, and proxy media. Here’s how they differ, where the files live, how relinking works — and the default settings that turned my 8 GB stream recording into a 500 GB proxy.
DaVinci Resolve’s Edit page can either move the playhead across a static timeline, or keep the playhead fixed while the timeline scrolls underneath it. Here’s where that toggle lives, and why your machines might disagree about it.
My ACES EXR renders from Unreal Engine looked correct in Resolve on Windows, but way too dark on the Mac – with identical project settings. The culprit turned out to be a macOS-only preference, and here’s how to fix it (plus a bonus gotcha about the D60 simulation Output Transform).
Decals let you project a flat image onto existing geometry without touching the underlying material. Here’s the full setup in UE5, why older UE4 tutorials mention options that no longer exist, and how to stop a decal bleeding onto neighbouring geometry.
A creative use of mip maps: blend your texture with a blurred mip of itself to soften pattern detail directly in the material graph – no Substance Painter round-trip, no colour matching, and it costs next to nothing.
Some static meshes render fine in the viewport but vanish in Movie Render Queue, thanks to a LOD0 Screen Size of zero. The Property Matrix can’t fix them in bulk, but a short Python script can. Here’s the one I use, with a dry-run mode.
A ten-minute Sequencer trick to make static crowd characters look alive: an additive FK Control Rig loop with asymmetric breathing timing, desynchronised per character — plus an accidental discovery about copy-pasting whole Control Rig tracks.
Coming from Premiere Pro, I wanted my familiar “apply default transition to everything” workflow in DaVinci Resolve. Here’s how it works — per edit on the Cut page (including the Speed Editor’s dedicated keys), and in bulk on the Edit page.
Setting a pivot offset is easy — until Unreal keeps selecting the object behind your new pivot position when you right-click. Here are three ways around it: clicking the actor’s viewport icon, temporarily hiding objects, and parenting to an empty actor.
How to add a Normal Strength parameter to a master material in Unreal Engine, so you can tone down, boost, or even invert a normal map per instance – no Substance Painter round-trip required.
From empty laptop to a synced, compiling, playtestable UEFN project in a morning — disk space, the 90% login stall, VS Code integration, Lore, the Verse build server, and keeping the machine cool while playtesting.