I encountered the Quicktime bug and the the lack of audio. A glance at their forum shows many other issues with the software. I don't think Davinci Resolve 12 is ready for prime time.

@JayB38 Yeah, I could transcode my files in any number of ways, but that's what I'm trying to avoid. It's 2016; a high spec desktop should be able to decode 4K h264 in real time, and can in other programs.

Has anyone tried VapourSynth or AviSynth to replace the decoder? I understand that Resolve can't read the scripts natively, but there's a program that mounts scripts as a file system and this may work. Here's a link talking about it:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=172456

I agree with @Vitaliy_Kiselev. Every time I try to open the program, it keeps telling me that the QuickTime decoder is not there or that it's invalid or some type of crap. Wish they would update to a better decoder

@Ezzelin. I have a G7 as well, and I only downsample my clips to 1080p DNxHD 4:2:2 files via ClipToolz Convert V2. Hope that helps.

Checked out the new version. Playback performance is better on my G7 4K files, but still not real-time. There must be a better way than QuickTime. It's so old at this point.

What QuickTime thing are you referring to?

• Decode support for HEVC/H.265 QuickTime video in DaVinci Resolve Studio on Windows
• Added Media Storage context menu option to directly add storage locations without opening Preferences on Mac and Windows
• Ability to add Media Storage locations without restarting Resolve on Mac and Windows
• Added support for reading Reel Names in OpenEXR media
• Added decode support for Sony MPEG2 video files
• Added support for ARRI RAW sharpness when using the ARRI Full Res Debayer
• Added support for smaller font sizes on burn-ins
• Added support for keyboard shortcut for loop on the Edit Page
• Improved HEVC/H.265 decode performance on Mac in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Improved H.264 decode performance on Windows
• Improved Varicam, MPEG4, AVC and AVC-Intra MXF decode performance on Mac and Windows
• Improved compressed OpenEXR decode performance
• Added support for RED SDK v6.1
• General performance and stability improvements

I think improved H.264 decode performance is bigger thing.. maybe I can finally really work with GH4 4K-files.

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As part of their year end efforts, Blackmagic Design also just made DaVinci Resolve 12 Studio (the full version) available for just $499 to Mac users through Apple’s App Store. This is huge as now, Resolve 12 Studio does not require the dongle and can be used on different Mac OSX machines with your Apple ID.

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This massive 50% price drop compared to the $1,000 regular price for Windows/Mac users who want to get it with the dongle (or get it for free when they buy a Production 4K camera or an URSA Major or URSA Mini 4K camera) however does come with a few limitations listed below.

DaVinci Resolve and DaVinci Resolve Studio on Mac App Store works exclusively in OpenCL regardless of the GPU vendor

CUDA based processing is unavailable due to sandboxing limitations. As a result, all processing is done on OpenCL irrespective of the type of GPUs. CUDA drivers are not installed The option to ‘Show all mounted volumes in the “Library’’ is unavailable in the App Store Builds

Users need to explicitly provide Resolve access to folders and drives in “Preferences” in order to be able to access them from the App Store builds

DaVinci Resolve Control Surface is not available on DaVinci Resolve for App Store (it ships with a dongle each for Mac/Windows and Linux anyway)

Avid Artist Color is not available in DaVinci Resolve for App Store

PostgreSQL server is not installed along with the AppStore installation

The PosgreSQL installation is now optional on the website installer as well. However the AppStore versions as well as the website versions can connect to and use PostgreSQL servers

No Capture Logs application is available for the App Store installations

For a non-Studio install, ResolveDebug.txt can be found at: /Users//Library/Containers/com.blackmagic-design.DaVinciResolveLite/Data/Library/Application Support/logs

For a Studio install, ResolveDebug.txt can be found at: /Users//Library/Containers/com.blackmagic-design.DaVinciResolveAppStore/Data/Library/Application Support/logs

Other items such as the default Disk Database and the default LUT folder can be found in the same Application Support folder as logs

DaVinci Resolve for App Store might not fully support 3rd party OpenFX plugins that do not fulfill the Mac App Store sandboxing guidelines – popular plugins like Genarts, Neat Video work fine already

DaVinci Resolve for App Store does not currently support the ability to add additional VST Effects Plugin folders – the standard VST path works fine

On-boarding for new installs is not available in the Mac App Store versions currently

yay, H.265 support!! Samsung NX1 users will be so stoked, over the moon.

"H.265 support but it’s listed as Studio only on OS X"

Ohhh.... oh well, I guess it will eventually filter across to the free Windows version as well.

If you are (like me) considering a new NLE program. Check this out:

Now available on the Mac App Store for only USD$499, customers have more flexibility than ever before because the software downloaded from the App Store features built in security and does not require a hardware dongle to run. That means customers that purchase DaVinci Resolve 12 Studio from the Mac App Store can run it on multiple personal Macs, like their laptop and desktop computers, simply by using their Apple ID.

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I use it with a G7 and a very mediocre video card 650Ti. I need to generate proxies a 1/4 size and than I am fine. That being said I really need to get a better card to do serious editing.