Edit friendly codecs

Zkuggi wrote on 11/17/2022, 5:39 AM

Hi community.

Been mixing up using Vegas Pro, VPX and Davinci (free version) for some years now. VPX has really grown on me. What I like most about it is its stability above other platforms and the amazing speed improvement with the new Infusion engine.

What I really miss from this editor is to be able to use some edit friendly codecs. Back in the days it handled ProRES 422 fine. Reading up on this forum it looks like the support has been removed because of licensing issues.

I've tried ProRES, DNxHD, DNxHR and GoPRO Cineform but it looks like VPX cannot read any of that by default.

What do you do to edit this kind of footage?

My method is just to edit them with Vegas Pro which has native ProRES support. Strange given both programs are owned by Magix. I hope they introduce this support for next itteration of VPX.

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johnebaker wrote on 11/17/2022, 7:34 AM

@Zkuggi

Hi

. . . . I've tried ProRES, DNxHD, DNxHR and GoPRO Cineform but it looks like VPX cannot read any of that by default. . . . What do you do to edit this kind of footage? . . . .

Install Quicktime (QT).

With QT installed you can import into VPX the ProRes 4:2:2, 4:4:4 and RAW formats and, allegedly, the GoPro Cineform format video - I do not have a sample of this to test, I also see that this is a very old codec

DNxHD and DNxHR are supposed to import with QT however the DNxHD sample I have, while creating an object on the timeline, imports with no video or audio. DNxHR I cannot test as I do not have a sample file.

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Zkuggi wrote on 11/17/2022, 6:52 PM

This worked. Even though Quicktime isn't really official for Windows 11. Once I installed (quick google exercise) ProRES at least works in VPX.

Thanks @johnebaker ... MVP is usually not just acronym for Magix Video Pro ... where would this community be without you :)