Even those users who work with the professional DaVinci Resolve are reporting various problems, such as unable to read the file, keep getting 'Media Offline' or 'choppy or lagging 4K video playback' after importing. However, editing 4K HEVC videos isn't an easy thing. More and more phones and prosumer cameras, for instance, iPhone 8 or later, DJI Phantom/Mavic drone, GoPro HERO 8 Black, Canon XF 705 Camera can shoot 4K (2160x3840) videos using the HEVC/H.265 codec, which is much more efficient than H.264 when it comes to compress videos for saving space and reducing the pressure of bandwidth while data transferring.

Turning off Hardware Accelerated Decoding fixes it and allows me to work better, but I would prefer having my GPU do the heavy lifting of decoding.' Like, a few seconds of the actual video plays, and then media offline for like 0.5 - 3 seconds, then a few seconds of video, then media offline again, etc.

If I keep hardware accelerated decoding checked in Preferences while working with them, I get seemingly random 'media offline' placed all over my media. 'So this only seems to happen with h.265 videos in Davinci Resolve Studio 16.2. This is my first go with h.265, anyone experienced this?' Unable to even read the file, keep getting 'Media offline', tried 3 different clips, same issue on all of them. 'Trying to read h.265 MP4 from Mavic 2 pro in Resolve 15 (not studio) in Win7.

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