02-02-2019, 08:38 PM | #1 |
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Can anyone recommend a render setting for working with Davinci Resolve 15?
I have video that I'm editing audio for in Reaper. Then, my people plan to use Davinci Resolve 15 to add titles and effects later. Looking at the list of Supported Formats and Codecs I'm not sure which lossless format/codec combination I should use when rendering out from Reaper. If you have any collaborative workflow recommendations for switching between these two tools, I'd love to hear them! The situation I have is that the source video is already compressed MPEG-2. I'm concerned that multiple transcodings to H264 will degrade the video unnecessarily. Maybe I'm being a little vain here, but the source video is not that great of quality to begin with so I don't want to make it any worse. Am I worrying over nothing?
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02-04-2019, 04:07 AM | #2 |
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Could exporting using EDL-files be a way to go?
That way, you wouldn't need to render it out first. https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=192860 Davinci seems to accept EDL...
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02-04-2019, 01:36 PM | #3 |
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If you're only working on the audio part I'd just render the audio out and let the audio/video combining part do the video editors, this way you'd save a conversion (if I understand correctly).
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02-04-2019, 03:19 PM | #4 | |
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But in terms of going in to Resolve, I assume you've seen this. I've had success generating level 4 H.264 MP4's on the way in to resolve, but the ones generated with ffmpeg in linux seem to offend it. The ones I make with Handbrake in Windows work. In terms of lossless, at least with some version of Resolve (not sure about current) I was able to do it with uncompressed MOV 8bit RGB, and in theory one could also do 10bit RGB, or YUV 8 or 10 bit. The linux ffmpeg encode command (adaptable for whatever version of ffmpeg) for raw 8-bit RGB would be: Code:
ffmpeg -i sourcevideo.xyz -c:a copy -c:v rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb24 output_for_resolve.mov I don't know if any of that is applicable to reaper's video rendering output options; I'd guess you'd want to do the video rendering part separately. H.264 can theoretically do lossless encoding, but I've never had any success trying it (seems totally unsupported by players, etc.) Anyway, hopefully it's moot. |
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02-04-2019, 03:48 PM | #5 |
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Would be nice if reaper had an archive quality codec/render ability like Davinci does for when these things are needed. +1 on the just render the audio, that's how I do it. I've been using Davinci since about August 2018 and ended up getting the pro version (partly because the free version restricts CPU/GPU performance).
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02-05-2019, 09:45 AM | #6 |
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Oh no, really? Any links? I hadn't heard that...
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02-05-2019, 09:54 AM | #7 |
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I know... I saw it on a forum and it's well-hidden enough that I've seen various "what's the difference" articles that don't mention it. Here are a few that mattered to me personally that aren't in the free version - editing/glitches/performance improved noticeably when I got the pro version:
Multiple image processing GPUs | No H.264 accelerated encoding with hi-spec NVIDIA GPUs | No Timeline frame rates greater than 60fps | No HEVC decoding | No REF: http://documents.blackmagicdesign.co...Comparison.pdf
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I've just installed Resolve. No CUDA support in the free version is a beatch. The Pro version is, what, $300? Filmora Pro is half that. I'd hate to get up-to-speed on Resolve and then get disappointed. Sigh.
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02-05-2019, 10:10 AM | #9 | |
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That said, I love Davinci, even when I had just the free version. IIRC at least for now, all future updates/upgrades are free so keep that in mind. I could be wrong but I don't know of another free video editor that comes remotely close to the power of Davinci but I only tried a few before I switched.
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02-05-2019, 10:53 AM | #10 |
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Thanks for the details; I'm not too affected by those limitations.
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All I'll be doing is YouTube videos for my website. No heavy lifting there. OK, I'll give it a go. I'd rather put the $150 toward a Rumble 115 cab to go with my 200 combo!
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02-05-2019, 02:21 PM | #12 |
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Do watch some tutorial videos... I semi-hated it at first and now that I'm used to it I love it. It's a little quirky in terms of UI.
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02-05-2019, 02:33 PM | #13 |
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02-05-2019, 02:42 PM | #14 |
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Do you ever use the integrated Fusion? I was excited to get in to that, but it was always just crashing or exhibiting crazy bugs, corrupting projects, etc, so I stopped bothering...
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02-05-2019, 02:44 PM | #15 | |
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There's also a new update out (I think). 15.2.something.
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02-05-2019, 02:47 PM | #16 |
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I have a GTX GeForce 1060 6GB -- how does that rank for this application in your estimation?
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02-05-2019, 02:52 PM | #17 |
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Better than mine (1050ti 4GB) so that's possibly not it. I'll try to play with fusion soon and see if it gives me any grief.
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02-05-2019, 02:54 PM | #18 |
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It's been a while since I gave it a go, so they've probably fixed a bunch of stuff. I think I'm on the latest now, so maybe I'll try again some time soon.
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