@sneak Time for a good mezzanine codec like DNxHR HQ. This might work:
ffmpeg -i input.ext -c:v dnxhd -profile:v dnxhr_hq -pix_fmt yuv422p -c:a pcm_s16le output.mov
@mikael resolve studio is only $300, and it's a one-time thing not a fucking shitass forever subscription like the assfuck creative cloud, so i just bought it. while i'm waiting for my license key scratch card to arrive from ebay, i have a cracked version that also works great.
@mikael transcoding everything after shooting and before editing is trash
@mikael also i don't know anything about DNxHR but i would imagine that for equivalent quality to h265 it's gotta be at least 50-100% higher bitrate, which means more disk thrashing (i have 18 cores and a bigass gpu, i'd rather reduce disk i/o)
@sneak You're right, a proxy workflow usually works the best if you let the program handle proxy generation. I'm not too good with Resolve though, so can't how well it works hooking up proxy with original. I work almost exclusively in Premiere (required for work).