i received a lot of emails lately on my youtube and instagram
from some of you asking me that a lot of my videos are a little bit too advanced so basically
you guys asked me to do a little bit more simple stuff therefore i decided to do davinci resolve 17
boot camp so basically what we're going to do in the boot camp we're going to take a huge
step back and start learning davinci resolve from the very basics from very
beginning so if you're just learning davinci resolve or you're switching from other
program this year is going to be for you it's going to be a special playlist designed to watch
all the way from the beginning to an end so we're going to do a nice boot camp series for resolve
now for those of you who watching me for the first time probably thinking who the hell is this guy
my name is aaron k i'm professional film colorist with over 10 years of experience in the industry
i do teach davinci resolve professionally and i work in the film industry also as cinematographer
in this bootcamp series we're going to be taking a look back at davinci resolve from very basics
how to load things what certain parameters are i'm going to show you a few tricks and
basically stuff like that now since it's a very first introduction video i want to talk about
a little bit of basic requirements for davinci resolve i also get this question a lot
so what do we you really need in order to start working with davinci resolve well that depends
on what is your final goal let's talk about really the basics as far as the gear goes
first all the processor the processor for davinci resolve for your computer you much
better off having a gaming processor meaning faster frequency rather than amount of cores
davinci resolve even though they say they do they don't really utilize the large amount of cores
so for example if you have 64 core at something like 1.5 gigahertz it may not be as good as for
example having 12 cores at 4 gigahertz so be sure if you assemble your computer or you want
to kind of learn a little bit what's better for resolve faster processor is much better versus
number cores now the second one comes graphics card graphics card and davinci resolve extremely
important if you're planning on doing video editing larger than 4k for example you can get
away right now with eight gigabytes of video ram to edit and do basic color grading for 4k video
however if you want to do more complex effects like noise reduction or drop some effects that
come with davinci resolve eight gigabytes is not enough and you're going to be constantly getting
air that resolves out of memory or similar thing like that now that being said you
probably have another question one graphics cards or two um my answer is in my opinion
again if you're not running a studio or anything like that you better off having one powerful gpu
versus two mediocre ones so if you're assembling your computer you're thinking just put like bunch
of lower grade graphics card don't do that better buy one good one davinci resolve does not split
or add memory meaning let's say you have two mediocre cards at eight gigabytes each right if
you put two of them together you will not get 16 gigabytes it doesn't work like that you still be
working with the 8 gigabyte video ram so keep that in mind another one is the hard drive
the hard drive is very important especially right now again that we have 4k files 6k 8k 12k it's
very important that your drive is fast enough the old school 7200 rpm drives are no longer
good enough to do color grading so again if you're serious about using resolve for professional work
or you really want to have real-time playback i highly recommend getting either ssd it can be
external ssd or nvme drive you get much better performance with them and it's very important
when you have real-time playback i actually done video about it if you want look up on my channel
i'm basically explaining how to get real-time playback at davinci resolve so those are the main
basically factors now as far as the monitor goes any modern monitor ips or equivalent panel is good
enough most modern monitors cover rec 709 which is still a standard when it comes to color grading
and basically as long as long as you calibrate your monitor using calibration tool again i've
done video on that look it up you are good to go you don't need to have expensive monitor for
example like i have here the asus which is almost uh what is it four or five grand very expensive
monitor however in the future you probably want to get one because once you're going to get more
advanced we're going to be grading in a larger space than rec 709 that being said if you're
just learning again any monitor will do as long as your computer is fast enough basically you're
going to be good to go so those are pretty much like a minimum requirements um as far as the ram
you probably want to have at least 16 gigabytes of ram for 4k you want to have at least 32 in
anything above 4k video i would highly recommend having 64 gigabytes of ram that way you're not
going to have any kind of ram related issues especially again when you're going to be dropping
additional effects on your footage because those effects usually pretty ram hungry so anyways this
is the first introduction video from now on we're going to start actually doing things in resolve
i just wanted to take time and quickly kind of talk about a little basic requirements right now
2021 davinci resolve 17 so basically where we at when it comes to computer power anyways be sure
to check out videos subscribe to this playlist and i'm gonna see you guys next time take care
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