Does Da Vinci Like M2T Videos?

[Tero Ahlfors]

DNxHD/HR formats work with pretty much everything and not only Avid. Also not all applications can export Prores on Windows eg. Resolve.

[Ole Kristiansen]

Yes, Dnx for Windows and ProRes for Mac !

Another great program to convert .mts footage is:

5DtoRGB Batch GUI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocKsNoULOYs&t=49s

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[Ole Kristiansen]

https://f1.creativecow.net/13113/5dtorgb-batch-gui

[Terence Christopher]

Thanks Ole ,Rainer,and Tero Your suggestions, and support have been really superb. I now am beginning to understand the problem that I didn’t know existed a few days ago. Without your information I would have been hopelessly struggling. I am now reconsidering everything I have been doing and am planning to transfer all of my M2t and possibly Mp4 files to one of these formats though the superbly easy and powerful program by Sagi Gal is very tempting. I hope I can just switch over in Da Vinci without a problem though as everything up to now has been MP4
I will just try it and see. Do you leave everything in your machines in these formats and only export in MP4 or for a selected target? Do that work as an archival system? It obviously takes more space. Can AVI player read these files?
Thanks

[Ole Kristiansen]

Is only happy to help !

My computer is powerful enough that I don’t have to convert internal mp4 recordings from my Panasonic GH4!

When I edit DNxHD / HR footage from my Atomos Ninja Flame, in Davinci Resolve, I also export a DNxHD / HR finished movie – that’s my Master – which I can use to convert to mp4 as needed – it’s faster to use a Master – no need to render! DNxHD / HR takes up more space – but storage is cheap today!

You can use VLC Media Player to play DNxHD / HR!

[George Dean]

Hi Terence,

I would just like to follow an addition to Ole. Like he, I use a Panasonic GH4. Like he I use an Atomos Ninja Flame. By the time you add a few extra batteries, several SSD drive for recording, some attachment gizmo’s for mounting the camera and recorder, they are a bit pricey. But once I did that, I never looked back. And here are 2 additional benefits….

1. I have several SSD drives of 500GB and 1TB, which when you start recording higher bit rate DNx and/or ProRes will enable you to record all day, and the drives are hot swapable and swap out quickly.

2. The Atomos Ninja Flame has a 7″ HD monitor, which also has a bunch of feature for focus assist, exposure control, as well as, being able to load a LUT, if you are recording in V-Log L, you can see the Rec 709 conversion right on the Ninja Flame monitor, and it also has some HDR to ticker with.

In addition, Resolve 15.2.3 likes either the ProRes or DNx formatted files.

Soon I will probably be adding a GH5. But even though it will record 422 10 bit internally, I will most likely also get an Atomos recorder to attach to it for the extra benefits they offer. Of course there are various Atomos models and I think Balckmagic makes a nice recorder monitor as well. Just my few cents.

Best Regards……George

[Terence Christopher]

Thanks Ole and George. The info is very reassuring.I am still pretty ignorant so would like to check a couple of things
1) Ole I think you implied that you render back to Master still in the DNx… format and then only export to Mp4 if needed. Is that correct?
2) The batch transcoder you recommend did not indicate what formats it codes to. Does it do both DNxDH and DNxDR
I have a bunch of files to transcode.
3) Is the H264 wrapper still used in all of these or is it only with MP4 ? I don’t understand this at all nor whether it is a supplemental component just used for transmission. I assume I should always render to H264 at this time.

[Ole Kristiansen]

“Ole I think you implied that you render back to Master still in the DNx… format and then only export to Mp4 if needed. Is that correct?” Yes

“The batch transcoder you recommend did not indicate what formats it codes to. Does it do both DNxDH and DNxDR ?”

The 5DtoRGB Batch GUI program – is much older than DNxHR – so it’s only DNxHD!

[Terence Christopher]

Hi Ole I am now in a position to start testing. I have one question converting from HD 1080 M2t to DNxHD
I was given the option of anamorphic or letterbox It seems irrelevant as I have no images that are not in the 1080 format. What should I choose and when is this an issue?
Thanks
Terence

[Terence Christopher]

I aplogise for the previous post. Running the programme made it obvious and that letterbox was not the way to go.
so thank for all of the generous help
Terence