Hey Everybody,
I'm about at my wits end with my RAW workflow. Really, it's not a workflow. I'm bandaiding for some kind of resolve/premiere/GPU/PSU issue I'm encountering. This all started with Resolve 12.5. I pulled in my 3:1 RAW footage and began coloring it. While coloring, the machine would randomly shut down. No notice. No warnings. No components overheating. I'm well within my bounds of my components. However, I couldn't get very far without the machine failing while coloring/editing. I had to save between every change in fear of losing work. I got the coloring done and tried to export my footage to a usable format for Premiere Pro editing. Before anyone tells me to use Resolve for editing, it's just not going to work for me. I use a lot of plugins and 3rd party tools that I just don't have available in Resolve. I'm sure it's fine for simple edits. Just not my projects. No matter what I would do, my exports would fail. Couldn't export 4K. Couldn't export HD. I honestly needed as close to original quality as my inputs, but I couldn't get a job to finish without generic errors.
I shelved the project and worked on some prores footage from the same UMP camera. Worked great. Never had an issue. Did everything in PProCC. Now I'm back to this project which has deadlines and I cannot win. Constant shut offs. Inability to export. I updated to Resolve 14. No change in behavior.
I eventually gave in and purchased a SlimRAW license so I could convert my lossy raw files to a lossless raw for compatibility in PProCC. While trying to ingest the footage, my computer will shut off. I can barely work with this footage. Just doesn't make sense. I've stress tested the GPU quite a bit and never have shut downs or problems. I would blame the PSU, but the computer ran fine for a week straight in a non-RAW workflow. I'm beyond frustrated.
As a last ditch effort, I'm seeing if any of you have encountered any of these issues. Any insight or lessons learned I can go on?
Specs:
I7 6700K
32 GB RAM
Samsung 850 EVO SSD drives
GTX970
Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide!