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Working with MTS files in DaVinci Resolve

Admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 02:17:48 +0000

Problem regarding to working with MTS files in DaVinci Resolve

“Hi, I am new with DaVinci Resolve and I am trying to import some AVCHD-files (*.mts container) but I am not able to see them in Resolve. Is there any possibility to work with MTS files in DaVinci Resolve? I’m editing on Windows 8.1 x64 and Resolve does not even find these MTS files! I really hope that someone will help me about this. Thanks a lot in advance.”

To avoid MTS incompatibility problems in DaVinci Resolve, the solution is to transcode the MTS files to ProRes or DNxHD before editing. They work smoothly in Resolve. To process video conversion, third party converter is required. Considering the ease of use and excellent output quality, Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter / Mac Version is a good choice. It features optimal format presets for DNxHD and ProRes, which are best suitable for use in DaVinci Resolve.

How to convert MTS clips to DaVinci Resolve preferred editing codec?

Here’s what you need:

Key Feature of Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter

Professional video converter: This MTS/M2TS converter supports converting 150+ video formats. You can use it to convert M2TS/MTS to all the formats supported by iTunes like MP4, MOV, M4V.
High output video quality: The converted videos are in high quality. It will keep 100% orginal video quality.
Fastest Conversion Speed: It can batch convert videos at 30X fastest speed than almost all the competitors.
Great video editing tool: You can use it to enhance your video by adding effects, or edit your video by merging, rotating, trimming, etc.

The conversion speed is very fast because it supports batch conversion and NVIDIA CUDA & ATI Stream (AMD APP) acceleration technologies. It converts multiple video clips at the same time, moreover it can shut down computer after the process is complete, so run the app overnight and you could enjoy the created videos next morning when you are up.

MTS and Davinci Resolve workflow – how to convert MTS video to Davinci Resolve editable format?

The steps:

Step 1: Load the MTS files.

Start up Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter as an MTS Converter for DaVinci Resolve. When its main interface pops up, click ‘Add File’ to input your source media.

Step 2: Choose output format for DaVinci Resolve

To convert MTS video to DNxHD for DaVinci Resolve, you can from ‘Profile’ bar, select ‘Avid DNxHD (*.mov)’ as output format under ‘Avid Media Composer’ column.

To encode MTS video to ProRes 422 for DaVinci Resolve, you can choose ‘Final Cut Pro’ > ‘Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)’ as target format.

Step 3: Custom video and audio settings

If necessary, you can click ‘Settings’ button and go to ‘Profiles Settings’ panel to modify video and audio settings like video encoder, resolution, video bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio encoder, sample rate, audio bit rate, and audio channels. 3D settings are also available.

Step 4: Start MTS video to DNxHD/ProRes MOV Conversion

When ready, click ‘Convert’ to start format conversion. As soon as the conversion is complete, you can click ‘Open Folder’ button to get the exported MOV files for use in DaVinci Resolve with optimum performance.

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Convert GoPro MP4 to DNxHD MOV for DaVinci Resolve Editing

Admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 02:40:48 +0000

GoPro Hero cameras are compact, lightweight, and wearable on different vehicles. The GoPro HD cameras like Hero2, Hero3, Hero4, etc. are familiar with everyone whoever has passion for sports and other outdoor activities. A GoPro Hero camera produces HD H.264 MPEG-4 (*.mp4) videos, and can be played on computer well. As we all know, most of the editing software support MP4, and then why GoPro MP4 files cannot be edited in DaVinci Resolve?

“When I import the GoPro MP4 video into DaVinci Resolve, it looks blurry and pixely. However, when I view the same video out of the folder that it resides in, the video looks amazing. I’m assuming I’m doing something wrong during the import process. Any suggestions?”

As an extremely powerful editor in the post production workflow, DaVinci Resolve is well known for its color correction ability as well as a great manager of your entire creative process. It is claimed that DaVinci Resolve works with a wide variety of file formats in real time including DPX, CIN, EXR, Tiff, QuickTime, ProRes, DNxHD and MXF files. While importing the unsupported MP4 to DaVinci Resolve is such a pain. May be we need a video assistant to get more help.

Searching the web, I got some hints. What I can do with the current project is take the GoPro MP4 I have and convert it for use with DaVinci Resolve. And what I need is a great MP4 converter. After multiple testing, I found Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac (review) is the best option for me. It is able to convert GoPro MP4 to DaVinci Resolve friendly format DNxHD MOV easily with the best video quality. Besides MP4, this video convert program can also help to convert between any popular video and audio formats as you need. Plus, with the built-in video editing feature of the program, you can trim, crop, add watermark and more to your video files.

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How to convert GoPro MP4 to DaVinci Resolve?

Step 1: Download and have a quick installation. The trial version will have a watermark on your converted files. Except for that, there are no time limitation, no virus, and no unnecessary bundle apps while downloading. After that, click “Add Video” button to load your original videos. You can load several files at once thanks to “Add from folder” button.

Step 2: Here, you need to choose what you want the output to be. Click “Format” drop-down list, and then select “Avid Media Composer>>Avid DNxHD (*.mov)” as the best output format.

Step 3: Click “Settings” button to customize the output video and audio settings by yourself. But if you are not good at it, you’d better use the default parameters, they will ensure you a good balance between file size and image quality basically. You can change the resolution, bit rate, frame rate as you need.

Step 4: When everything is done, you can take a preview by hitting “Play” button. If you are satisfied with the final result, you can click “Convert” button to finish the conversion work.

Conclusion: Once the conversion process is complete, you can click “Open Folder” button to get the generated files for editing GoPro MP4 in DaVinci Resolve with optimum performance.

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Work Sony Alpha 77 Mark II AVCHD with DaVinci Resolve

Admin — Wed, 27 May 2015 06:43:31 +0000

Summary: I get a lot of questions from Sony Alpha 77 Mark II users about how to convert AVCHD to DaVinci Resolve. This article shows you my solution for editing Alpha 77 Mark II AVCHD in DaVinci Resolve.

The Sony Alpha 77 Mark II is an extraordinary high spec enthusiast / semi-pro digital SLR camera. Designed to ensure you never miss the moment in also has 12fps continuous shooting for amazing action sequences, and 79 AF points for a very sophisticated and accurate focus. The BIONZ X image processor makes sure even with all this information the camera never gets flustered.

With its advantages appeared, disadvantages are not hidden. While enjoying the stunning image quality, many folks may find it a painful experience to import Sony Alpha 77 Mark II AVCHD to DaVinci Resolve for further editing. “I just have a Sony Alpha 77 Mark II camera on hand. I’m wondering what people are using in order to get the AVCHD files from Alpha 77 Mark II work with DaVinci Resolve. I shot the video in 1080 60p, I found the AVCHD MTS clips cannot be recognized by DaVinci Resolve. How can I solve the import issue?”

Well, a bit frustrating. The Sony Alpha AVCHD highly compressed files are still not well supported by DaVinci Resolve due to DNxHD is DaVinci Resolve best friendly format. As you may encounter many audio and video problems and I know that DaVinci Resolve can’t handle raw AVCHD videos, so there is no doubt that it will take more time on rendering while ingesting the files. Back to the point, if you have been struggling with Sony Alpha 77 Mark II AVCHD to DaVinci Resolve, what’s the available workaround?

Fortunately, to get the work done, the easy option to work Sony Alpha 77 Mark II AVCHD with DaVinci Resolve beautifully is to rewrap and convert AVCHD to DNxHD via third-party program. It will help you import the files correctly and saving the rendering time. To fulfill your task, you can just get Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac, a powerful video converter, editor and player. It offers an optimized presets for DaVinci Resolve for easy access. Besides transcoding AVCHD to DaVinci supported formats with optimized settings while keeping the video quality, the all-in-one and easy-to-use tool can convert all other popular video formats like AVI, MXF, MP4, WMV, MKV, FLV, ASF, M2TS, VOB, etc. to Premiere Pro, iMovie, FCP, FCE, Avid MC and more NLEs natively supported video formats on Mac OS X Yosemite with fast encoding speed.

How to edit Alpha 77 Mark II AVCHD in DaVinci Resolve?

Step 1: Connect your Sony Alpha 77 Mark II camcorder to Mac via USB cable and find the AVCHD files from the camera folder. Then copy and transfer the AVCHD files to the Apple hard drive disk.

Step 2: Import Alpha 77 Mark II AVCHD files to Mac MTS Converter. Run it as the best Mac MTS Converter, and click the “Add video” button to load AVCHD files. You may also directly drag and drop AVCHD videos to application UI for importing files.

Step 3: Click the “Format” option and navigate the mouse cursor to “Avid Media Composer>>Avid DNxHD (*.mov)” as output format.

Step 4: When everything is ready, click “Convert” to start converting Alpha 77 Mark II AVCHD to DNxHD. This Mac MTS/M2TS Converter supports batch conversion so you may load multiple files and convert them at one time.

Conclusion: Click “Open” button to get the generated files. Now, you can edit Alpha 77 Mark II AVCHD files in DaVinci Resolve freely.

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How to Get AVCHD MTS Workflow with DaVinci Resolve (Lite)

Admin — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 09:01:46 +0000

Summary: Have you heard someone there claimed that the DaVinci Resolve Lite has the strong ability of the working almost everything in real time except for AVCHD MTS format. Something like ranging from QuickTime, ProRes, DNxHD, MXF files to AVI, JPEG2000, HQ and HQX in MOV, JPEG, TGA and BMP. Let’s find the solutions here.

How much do you know about the DaVinci Resolve Lite though you are a professional editor?
As an extremely powerful editor in the post production workflow, DaVinci Resolve is well known for its color correction ability as well as a great manager of your entire creative process. It is claimed that DaVinci Resolve works with a wide variety of file formats in real time including DPX, CIN, EXR, Tiff, QuickTime, ProRes, DNxHD and MXF files. While the DaVinci Resolve Lite is such a pain. May be we need a AVCHD MTS assistant to get more help. (DaVinci Resolve supported formats)

Notes: AVCHD MTS is not available with many other programs such as FCP, Premiere, or VLC media player.

Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac—Make AVCHD MTS friendly with DaVinci Resolve Lite.(Windows version)
Here we strongly recommend you the professional AVCHD assistant which can handle all the AVCHD files well with popular editing tools, including the DaVinci Resolve Lite. Join us to know how it works so well?

Step 1. Load our source recordings
Open this program, when the main interface pops up in front of you, two buttons on the left corner can do us a big favor. ‘Add video’ and ‘Add from folder’. The first one is aimed to load your video clips individually, while the second can load footage as the complete one.

Step 2.Choose the suitable output for DaVinci Resolve.
Now it is time to come to the output list. Don’t worry you didn’t find the item for DaVinci Resolve Lite, cause we know the best format is DNxHD MOV, so we suggest you to select the ‘Avid Media Composer’>>’DNxHD (*.mov)’ as the best one. Just look the screen shot below.

Tips: For 3D movie conversion? Why not go to the ‘3D Video’ to choose one as your favorite? For example, 3D MP4, 3D MKV, etc.

Step 3.(Optional) Advanced functional items? Move your steps to the ‘Settings’ interface, here we will find ourselves with such ‘Trim’,’Crop’, or ‘Subtitles’ etc. Or change to the ‘advance mode’, you can get more there.

At the end of this paper, let me tell you how to start our conversion work. Just go back to the main interface, ‘Convert’ there is waiting for your clicking. After that, just enjoy your output files when editing in DaVinci Resolve Lite. Fortunately, here is a MTS Topic Page you can get more knowledge of MTS files. Thanks for reading!

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Make Panasonic PX270 MXF Accepted by DaVinci Resolve, Kdenlive, Keynote, iPhoto

Admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:05:30 +0000

In a word, with the higher and higher requirements of editing tools, more and more editing apps are released during the years, so as a professional video editor, which one do you like best? This guide below mainly could tell us how to make some popular ones accept the MXF files from Panasonic PX270 camera. Such as DaVinci Resolve, Kdenlive, Keynote, iPhoto

I don’t know if you all guys are familiar with the editing tools I mentioned above, here if you have ever got some troubles in working files with them, some issues must exist there, right? But do you really know these kinds of editing software have the common supported video format? ( – DaVinci Resolve supported formats)Yes, actually MOV is the best.

While for MXF, it is a kind of container video format that usually cannot be friendly with editing tools or media players. So is that cool if there is a MXF converter can handle all the work well? Fortunately, Pavtube MXF Video Converter for Mac could get rid of all the related troubles. Additionally for Windows users, we can download the Windows version here.

As usual, open the program and you will find the ‘Add video’ and ‘Add form folder’ could load your files smoothly. On the output list, you can find MOV in both ‘Common Videos’ and ‘HD Videos’, surely, you may want the high quality videos as a output, ‘HD Video’>>’H.264 HD Video(*.mov).

What is differs from other similar converting programs, we can also find the ‘Merge into one file’ to combine our files together. In ‘Settings’ button, adjust our personal video size or audio channels.

No matter for DaVinci Resolve, Kdenlive, Keynote or iPhoto, this MXF Converter could handle this well in a general way. At the end of this papaer, click the edning icon ‘Convert’ on the main interface to finish your preparation ans start your conversion job!

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