MP4s and MOVs files created in Da Vinchi Resolve not playing on M1 MBP

[Albert John]

Hi, The most problem is MP4 and MOV videos not playing and missing video , black scrren. Here are the useful solution to fix such kind of video problems.

Source: https://www.stellarinfo.com/blog/fix-video-not-playing-issue/

[Ben Lithman]

thanks, but that’s really not relevant for this issue.

[David Baud]

You need to understand that when you talk about “.MOV” or “.MP4”, you are talking about the wrapper for these particular files. It does not tell you at all about what kind of codecs (COmpression / DECompression) were used for these files, how your video and audio were encoded in that file.

As an example you can create a .MOV or .MP4 file with the same codec, i.e H.264

Finally even inside of a particular codec you can have variants. In my example, H.264 refers to a standardized MPEG-4 part-10 codec (AVC or Advanced Video Coding). MPEG-4 is a very common codec and progress has been made to improve it for different type of usage.

To go back to your question, in oder to help you, we would need a lot more information about these particular files before we can make an assumption.

[Jeff Kirkland]

Just finished a massive project on my 2013 Mac Pro with 100 videos rendered as ProRes and h264 and they play back perfectly on my Apple Silicon Mac Mini. What codec are you rendering to on your Intel Mac?