I like to replicate as much as possible what we're going to do on the final render. I'll come down to Advanced settings, I'm just kind of scrolling through, and in fact, when you select your codec, it doesn't have to be at your target codec, although I like to do that. Make sure I've got Entire Timeline selected, and what it's done is actually set an in and out point, because it doesn't have this media up front to render, so it's not going to. I'll right-click on Desktop, add new folder, I'll just call this PreRender.

I'm going to set our location for the Desktop.

I'll jump into the deliver page, since we're going to and from Premiere on this particular job, I'm going to select the Premiere XML round trip shortcut. By doing it at the timeline level, I'm forcing Resolve to process every single frame in this timeline, in order for me to see if there are any hidden problems. Something that looks terrible, it's not a color correction, but it will force-resolve. But what I want to do, is first go into my Timeline track, Option S, and I'm just going to do a ridiculous grade, just so that it's really easy to identify this footage. And what I'm going to do now, is do a render. I don't need that doubling up if I happen to pull up my audio. I'm also going to hide the audio from the reference movie. The first thing I'm going to do, is I'm going to turn off the top track of our reference movie, I don't need that reference movie anymore. So, how do we do that? Well, the pre-render is simple. I need to force Resolve to process every single frame, render it out, and make sure there aren't what I call, 'hidden problems', stuff that you wouldn't normally find just by hitting play. And so, the very next job, I sat down and thought, 'Alright, how can I solve this problem, 'what can I do?' My answer to that, is the pre-render. I had done the color grade, and I couldn't get the render out.

And, the question is, how do you figure out if this is going to happen to you, and think about it. And that corrupt frame kept crashing Davinci Resolve. Except, there's something I like to do because I got burned once, where I went through this conformed process, everything was great, we color corrected, and then on render, it turned out that there was one corrupt frame within a QuickTime file. Technically, at this point, we're ready to color correct.

Davinci resolve crashing during render