Rendering to 1080p youtube format took about 30minutes (it doesn't go on youtube of course, will be privately shared with the school only).DaVinci Resolve is free, well for the most part. Otherwise, handling the 8K and 4K 4:2:2 footage worked amazingly well on the M1, however next time doing something similar: stable Davinci Resolve it isĪfter cutting out the on-stage preparation works and long speeches I ended up with 55 min video. Rest of the UI stayed responsive though, so I saved and had to force-quit Davinci. Also one time I switched from Fairlight to the Edit page and video playback stopped working. Long story short, I highly discourage you from doing the same: I ended up having multiple crashes with macOS reboots (so not app-crash, laptop magenta-screen-crash-reboot). Ontop of that, I thought 'well you need to install Davinci Resolve, might as well go for the 18 Beta'. I figured I'll cut a long video project (school theater/music presentation) on my M1 macbook air because the 1.5+ hours of consecutive footage from two cameras each, half of it in 8K from my A1, will kill my Intel machine. Your graphics cards have considerably more memory than mine.įor the moment I've downgraded to 16 so I can at least capture and cull in the field at an upcoming event (mostly a stills event).

Uninstalled the driver, re-installed it, so confirmed up to date. Which are? Are you up to date with drivers?ĭiscrete: NVIDIA Quadro 1000M with 2GB the integrated is Intel HD Graphics 3000. The readme.rtf delivered with 18 says 'Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM. GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 11.', so that jives with the 'motion array' site. PS: couldn't find the requirements in the 3000-page Resolve manual or on the Davinci website. If you were running 17 successfully, you should have no problem with 18.įrom DaVinci Resolve System Requirements & Recommended Hardware | Motion Array - 'Integrated or discrete with at least 2GB of VRAM and supports Metal or OpenCL 1.2' I have 2GB, will now find out if it's OpenCL 1.2 or better. The minimum system requirements for version 18 are the same as 17.

Davinci resolve 18 beta or 17