nicknameinternational

I have a Surface Book and I just finished editing a little piece in Davinci Resolve. I have a macbook pro as well but picked up the surface book because I like do all my non video work in Windows. I have the i7, 16GB RAM, and dedicated GPU. I was editing 4k 24p XAVC-S 100mbps files for this project. First you can forget about 4k editing. I used Resolve to generate proxies at quarter res. Those still wouldn't play back smoothly in the 4k timeline, I turned on smart cache and proxy viewing and still no luck. It would play back very slowly and was unusable. When I set the Timeline resolution to 1080 the performance improved dramatically. There was no stutter and no hesitation. A good editing experience. I did my color correction with a couple nodes of corrections and it still played back well. When it was time for outputting I switch the Timeline back to 4K to export. I found a bug/ limitation though as I could not export 4k using the dedicated GPU. I kept getting an error saying the GPU memory was full. So for the final render I just detached the keyboard and exported with the built in graphics and cpu. It was slow though about 3-4 frames per second going to a UHD h264 for vimeo. So does it work? I am personally good with this performance because it's not my main station and I will probably edit most of my personal projects with it. I don't need to see 4K working in the small viewer on my laptop, so working in 1080 and then changing to 4K for export is fine by me. But I do wonder how the Vaio Canvas would perform with it's Iris Pro.