Just Moved to PC from MAC, trouble coping with loss of Apple ProRes,,,

[Walter Soyka]

Does it work better if you use DNxHD in MOV instead of DNxHD in MXF?

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[Ryan Metcalf]

I’m not surreal actually. I’ve been wracking my brain trying to figue out how to get a .mov wrapper on a dnxhd file, I can seem to find it as an option in media encoder, streamclip or any other program I would use to ingest.

Thanks for the reply,
Ryan metcalf

[Walter Soyka]

[ryan metcalf] “I’m not surreal actually. I’ve been wracking my brain trying to figue out how to get a .mov wrapper on a dnxhd file, I can seem to find it as an option in media encoder, streamclip or any other program I would use to ingest.”

You must download and install the DNxHD QuickTime codecs from Avid’s website. Once you’ve done this, you could do it from Premiere, Media Encoder, Streamclip, etc.

From Premiere, you can Export Media, choose QuickTime as the format, choose Avid DNxHD as the codec, and then set the format options in Codec Settings.

I’ve been using ffmbc to rewrap DNxHD MXF to MOV, but preserving timecode is a bit of a hassle.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Ryan Metcalf]

YES!! lol thank you, I was able to get DNxHD into a .mov wrapper. It does show up in davinci (at least in the media pool). I have yet to see how it handles an xml round trip.

Thanks a billion,
Ryan Metcalf

[Angelo Lorenzo]

To plug my own product, if you need to fulfill ProRes requests for clients, then check out PRHelper https://www.fallenempiredigital.com/blog/prhelpersoftware/

It’s a premium front-end for the program FFMBC (a version of the beloved FFMPEG that has some more bells and whistles for broadcast codecs, including ProRes encoding on Windows) whose primary strength is batching files during the beginning of ingest.

While DNxHD works great for most situations, you may still find ProRes useful for any workflow where you have to trade off with a Mac user or to deal with frame sizes/frame rates that DNxHD does not offer.

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Angelo Lorenzo

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