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by ErroneousBosh 30 days ago
Editing with any playback-only format like AAC or H.264/5 is a pain.

Everyone I've seen complaining about slow choppy playback in DaVinci Resolve appears to be using long-GOP codecs which require a massive amount of processing to decode. It's something like playing out two seconds of video to access every single frame.