On AVID’s website, there’s an easy-to-read document in the Avid Knowledge Base that sums up everything you need to guide your choice for ideal video file format and picture size. The highly compressed files, like H.264 for instance, can siphon off valuable systems resources from our workstations. Video Files supplied by picture editors can come in a variety of formats, some of which are not supported for use in various digital audio workstations. For 6 years now, I’ve been using DaVinci Resolve to mitigate any video playback issues.
I tried it for myself and found Resolve to be extremely efficient and swift.
So, I liked this DaVinci solution for that and because it’s free, feature-packed and has potential uses beyond just transcoding videos. Blackmagicdesign’s hardware was already installed and integral in my studio, as I had been using a USB 3.0 Intensity Shuttle to play out my sessions’ video files to my studio TV monitor since 2013. There must be a hundred or more programs that can do the job of transforming a video from one format to the next but when I sat down with my very clever friend, Richard, he told me he uses Blackmagicdesign’s DaVinci Resolve to get the job done. During most of this time, I could rely on QuickTime Pro to get the transcode job done but when Apple announced they were dropping 32 bit software support, I started looking to other programs. Back then, I could create my own video files in real time with these sorts of products by ingesting 4:3 video (standard 4:3, anamorphic or letterbox) from Digital Betacam, Betacam SP, or Betacam SX but as was often the case, editors would supply me noncompliant video files I would have to transcode to work with my system. I’ve been transcoding my video files for 20 years or so, even prior to using capture and playback products like Doremi Labs’ SCSI HDD V1D or Canopus ADVC-100 or ADVC-1000 (the latter owned by Grass Valley) for creating and outputting the first DV files I used with my audio sessions. Ever had issues playing back video in your session? In This article, Damian Kearns demonstrates how to use the free DaVinci Resolve program to avoid slowdowns, crashes and glitches that commonly occur when using the wrong video codec in your DAW.
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