Plus, we don't have budgets for the computer systems these formats demand. However, us amateurs don't have cameras that produce video in those formats.

But that's what professionals use, and that is the target (paying) customer base for DaVinci Resolve. Consumers are unlikely to have even heard of the most common professional formats ( DNxHD, ProRes, etc.), let alone used them. But if you are already familiar, please read on.ĭaVinci Resolve (and Fusion) is primarily designed to work with files containing video that is uncompressed or lightly compressed. Please visit this blog post for a quick discussion. Here is the list with links:īefore I go any further, you should be familiar with the concept of a CODEC and a container. I'll mention use of specific tools below. This guide provides information on how to process video into formats compatible with DaVinci Resolve without re-encoding. And if a tool says it is converting the video (especially if the resolution, format, or CODEC is being changed, and usually if the tool takes a long time and/or displays frames during the conversion), it is most likely decoding and re-encoding. Unless you are actually modifying the video, avoid re-compressing your content. IMPORTANT NOTE: Decoding and re-encoding video (or audio) WILL degrade the quality. Here are my best suggestions for speed and quality. That doesn't mean consumers cannot use DaVinci Resolve with our footage, but it does mean we need to process our video and audio before we can import it into DaVinci Resolve. So, support for consumer file formats is sparse, and what is there can be picky. However, it is designed for professionals, not (us) amateurs.

DaVinci Resolve is a wonderful piece of software for editing and processing video, and is available to anyone for free.

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