06-19-2020, 08:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-19-2020, 08:18 PM by addiesin. Edited 4 times in total.)
(06-19-2020, 06:43 PM)Silver Screen Samurai Wrote: The only difficulty I've encountered is if you choose to edit on Davinci Resolve;
It's quickly become a more accepted software in the professional industry than Final Cut Pro, for various reasons, so I know certain editors want to edit on there to give their edit access to a greater degree of professional tools. The only problem is Davinci doesn't accept MP4 files, because they're compressed, so to edit on there you have to have a MOV file.
Anybody know of any easily accessible tools that can convert MKV to MOV on a Mac? I've yet to have any luck.
That's weird, it says it supports mp4 with h.264 on their official site. Has it not accepted any you've tried or just one specifically? Are you sure it's not the opposite problem, the file is too big maybe, in which case you'd need to create a smaller proxy file?
Regardless I'd suggest trying tsmuxer to get the m2ts file from your mkv, it's the direct video stream without reencoding it, and Resolve also says it accepts that. It is also compressed but you won't add compression to it. I assume to get your mp4 you're either repackaging the streams in your mkv file with an mp4 container (no reencoding) or using a program like Handbrake (reencoding, which likely means inherent quality loss). Definitely avoid the latter if you intend to edit the resulting file.
The more correct way to do this is follow what Captain Khajit says as closely as possible, the dude's a guru with file prep. His suggestion on this thread appears to result in a ProRes file with an mov container, and it sounds like that's exactly what you're asking for anyway.
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Sorry if any of this seems nosey, just trying to get enough info to help troubleshoot.
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