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If there are a handful of clips with grades that you know are too processor-intensive to be Power Mastered, you can use the Render Cache controls to cache the problem clips before output. For more information, see Chapter 8, “Improving Performance, Proxies, and the Render Cache.”
Outputting a Program From the Timeline
The simplest method of outputting to tape is to output a single Timeline, either in its entirety, or in part if you’re insert editing a small section that has been revised.
1 Use the Render Cache, if necessary, to cache any clips that are too processor-intensive to output in real time.
2 Click the Edit to Tape mode button to the left of the transport controls to switch to tape output.
3 Define how much of the current Timeline to output by moving the playhead throughout the program, and then right-clicking clips that define the beginning and end of the range you need to output and using the Mark In and Mark Out commands.
4 Use the transport controls to find the In point on tape at which you want to start recording, and click the In button.
5 Choose Insert from the drop-down menu at the upper right-hand side of the Viewer, if you’re either outputting to a striped and blacked tape, or inserting over an existing program on tape.
6 Click the Power Mastering (lightning bolt) button at the bottom of the tape settings to add the job you’ve just set up to the Edit to Tape Queue.
7 Click Start Record to begin the process of outputting to tape. Device control is used to record to the designated section of tape; a progress bar appears at the bottom of the Render Queue to show how long this will take.
If you don’t want to Power Master, you can render the section of the Timeline you need to output as a single clip first, as a self-contained media file, and then add that clip directly to the Edit to Tape Queue. This might be an easier solution if you’re outputting an extremely processor-intensive timeline.
1 Click the Add Clips button at the bottom of the tape settings, and use the VTR Record dialog to select the media file you rendered in step 1, and click Add Clip(s) to Queue.
The media file you selected is added to the Edit to Tape Queue as a Power Mastering job, and will be output in its entirety.
2 Use the transport controls to find the In point on the tape at which you want to start recording, and click the In button.
3 Choose Insert from the drop-down menu at the upper right-hand side of the Viewer, if you’re either outputting to a striped and blacked tape, or inserting over an existing program on tape.
4 To preview what the edit will look like before actually writing it to tape, choose “Use Preview for Tape Output” from the Edit to Tape queue option-menu, and then click Start Record to watch DaVinci Resolve run through the edit using the deck. After previewing the edit, turn this setting off.
5 Click Start Record to begin the process of outputting to tape. Device control is used to record to the designated section of tape; a progress bar appears at the bottom of the Render Queue to show how long this will take.