How To Build Your Own Custom Render Cache in DaVinci Resolve

I got an ah ha moment! Firstly – and how dumb is this – whenever I wanted to change between layers I always went back to the conform page….I didn’t actually simply switch between V1 and V2
Secondly, even though using the rendered timeline idea is as you said slightly clunky I didn’t realise that when you updated and rerendered that it would then automatically update the V2 layer. Nice!!

Glad it helped Vincent! Its a slightly clunky system but hopefully the day that you need guaranteed playback it’ll be waiting here for you! The v1 and v2 was a bonus ah-ha moment 🙂

This is brilliant. It dawned on me that if I do the initial setup and render as part of my conform/setup, all I have to do is render the timeline and there we have it. First video, first ah ha moment. Well done, Dan. Thanks for sharing.

Glad you enjoyed it David! It was one of those things I had to work out for a very specific situation so I thought it would be good to share! The Resolve render cache is great but this gives a little more flexibility.

Cool workaround. Would be nice if BMD would put prores as an option in the “render cache” settings.