averissimo/da-vinci-resolve-ffmpeg

FFmpeg Codecs for Da Vinci Resolve

ffmpeg codecs experiment for Da Vinci Resolve 16.2.5

My choice at this point for video:

• prores if there is enough available space
• vp9 since DaVinci Resolve 17b8
• mpeg4 with -qscale:v 1 for maximum quality with compression

For audio:

• aac for MP4 container and then create a separate audio file when editting videos
• pcm_s24le for MOV container
• Nothing seems compatible with MP4 container (without crashing)

If audio doesn't matter VP9 in mp4 works. Flac should work for audio, but resolve crashes.

How to run

Run python script and then check output directories

$ python convert.py

Bash script to convert inside directory:

$ mkdir -p converted && for file in *.mp4; do
  ffmpeg -i $file -c:v mpeg4 -qscale:v 1 -c:a pcm_s24le converted/$file.mov
done

Other interesting calls for ffmpeg

$ ffmpeg -i <input> -c:v prores_ks -profile:v 3 -qscale:v 9 -vendor ap10 -pix_fmt yuv422p10le -c:a pcm_s24le <output.mov>

$ ffmpeg -i <input> -c:v libvpx-vp9 -crf 25 -b:v 0 -c:a flac -strict -2 <output.mp4>

$ ffmpeg -i <input> -c:v libvpx-vp9 -crf 25 -b:v 0 -c:a aac -b:a 192k <output.mp4>

$ ffmpeg -i <input> -c:v libvpx-vp9 -crf 25 -b:v 0 -an <output.mp4>