
Optimized Media Resolution: This is what resolution you want your proxy files to be in. Here you have a few options to choose from.:

Now go to “Master Settings” and scroll down to “Optimized Media and Render Cache”. This is another way of doing it, if you want to be superfast just press “Shift+9”. Or you can open it by doing like the picture below. The first thing you have to do is to open Project Settings, which you can do by clicking on that gear icon. If you’re coming from Premiere Pro you may be more used to the proxy files. I may change between using the word proxy and optimized media, but these mean the same thing. Let’s dive a bit deeper into what I briefly explained above.

As long as your PC isn’t from the 90s or something. Are you experiencing choppy playback while editing your videos? Then optimizing media (also known as proxy files) in DaVinci Resolve will most likely be your best bet.
