Davinci Resolve input format?

[meimeiriver]

Just got Davinci Resolve, with the intent to get the Studio edition (for HDR). To my dismay, Davinci Resolve kept saying ‘Media Offlne’ on my VEAI (Video Enhance Ai) mp4 output file. Okay, so it can’t import mp4; so I converted to .m2ts, but still nada. Even a regular remuxed m2ts blu-ray file it can’t import.

So, what gives with Davinci Resolve? Is there any output format – generated by VEAI – it actually can import properly?

[poisondeathray]

prores, image sequences, certain types of MP4 are ok too.

Non studio version is limited with certain codecs - that might why yours didn't work, or maybe you used a certain codec that was not supported

[meimeiriver]

prores, image sequences, certain types of MP4 are ok too.

Non studio version is limited with certain codecs - that might why yours didn't work, or maybe you used a certain codec that was not supported

Thx for your reply.

I would think that even the free version should be able to process a standard blu-ray .m2ts file. But both ProRes and images sequences are supported as output format for VEAI, so I will try those.

[poisondeathray]

8bit 4:2:0 AVC should, but in MOV or MP4 container. 10bit AVC requires Studio version

There is a list of supported formats somewhere on their website

[meimeiriver]

Do you happen to know about output too? I am currently running a job that will create a 520G ProRes mov file (that I will then be able to import into Davinci Resolve). I looked thru Davinci Resolve output formats, and h265 or similar isn't in it. I mean, do they expect me to use half a tera length movies on my media server? Seems the mac world does't care about creating normal, huma sized movies. Very irritating.

And I can't even ask on their forum, as they want you to register with your (always visible) real name. Sorry, but I don't do self-doxxing.

[poisondeathray]

It's not recommended to use resolve for a highly compressed final delivery format. The bundled AVC, HEVC encoders are not very good .

Use some high quality lossless or near lossless format, then some other encoder

There is a x264 plugin for resolve, but I'm not sure if it works with the non studio version .

[meimeiriver]

It's not recommended to use resolve for a highly compressed final delivery format. The bundled AVC, HEVC encoders are not very good .

Use some high quality lossless or near lossless format, then some other encoder

There is a x264 plugin for resolve, but I'm not sure if it works with the non studio version .

Yeah, wouldn't want h265 output anyway unless I can exert some major control over its parameters (like ffmpeg allows). Will try and find an output format (TIFF, maybe?) that can be fed to x265. Thx.

[poisondeathray]

Prores, DNxHR, Cineform, Image sequences (16bit PNG, TIFF), or EXR (float) , are all good options for exporting out of Resolve . The 1st three are near lossless, but smaller filesizes and a "video" format

[meimeiriver]

Prores, DNxHR, Cineform, Image sequences (16bit PNG, TIFF), or EXR (float) , are all good options for exporting out of Resolve . The 1st three are near lossless, but smaller filesizes and a "video" format

Well, I doubt I can demux ProRes, so it will likely br TIFF or PNG then. Thx.

[poisondeathray]

Prores, DNxHR, Cineform, Image sequences (16bit PNG, TIFF), or EXR (float) , are all good options for exporting out of Resolve . The 1st three are near lossless, but smaller filesizes and a "video" format

Well, I doubt I can demux ProRes, so it will likely br TIFF or PNG then. Thx.

You don't need to "demux" it. FFmpeg can decode/encode ProRes

I would use TIFF or PNG only if you intended to keep RGB for use some other programs , or if you wanted to control the RGB to YUV conversion explicitly

For general use cases, prores, cineform, dnxhr are more than adequate intermediates

[meimeiriver]

Prores, DNxHR, Cineform, Image sequences (16bit PNG, TIFF), or EXR (float) , are all good options for exporting out of Resolve . The 1st three are near lossless, but smaller filesizes and a "video" format

Well, I doubt I can demux ProRes, so it will likely br TIFF or PNG then. Thx.

You don't need to "demux" it. FFmpeg can decode/encode ProRes

Thanks again. Very useful to know ffmpeg can handle ProRes directly.