I am trying to use DaVinci Resolve 18.6 on Linux Mint 21.3 but I am having a rather peculiar issue when trying to add footage to the media storage. I had rather lengthy footage in *.mp4 format that wasn't even recognized by Resolve (most likely because I am on the free version). I converted this to *.mov format using ffmpeg and the result (even larger than the mp4) could be imported.
However, it was impractical to work with this huge file. It didn´t seem able to even generate proxies in spite of the resolution of my *.mov files being 720p.
I then resorted to extracing the various segments I was interested in using this ffmpeg incantation:
ffmpeg -v quiet -y -i 2015_0101_000056_008.MP4 -c:v dnxhd -vf "scale=1280:720,fps=60000/1001,format=yuv422p" -b:v 110M -c:a pcm_s16le \ -ss 00:01:16 -t 00:00:22 -sn -an -dn footage08_001.mov \ -ss 00:02:07 -t 00:00:30 -sn -an -dn footage08_002.mov \ -ss 00:02:42 -t 00:00:06 -sn -an -dn footage08_003.mov \ -ss 00:32:40 -t 00:00:21 -sn -an -dn footage08_004.mov \ -ss 00:38:43 -t 00:00:32 -sn -an -dn footage08_005.mov \ -ss 00:39:34 -t 00:00:46 -sn -an -dn footage08_006.mov \ -ss 00:40:53 -t 00:00:35 -sn -an -dn footage08_007.mov \ -ss 00:41:42 -t 00:00:11 -sn -an -dn footage08_008.mov I have confirmed that I can watch each of these shorter clips both in VLC and Celluloid.
Now comes the issue: when I try to import these clips (by either dragging&dropping or using the contextual menu "Import Media") only the first one is imported. I even tried removing the clip that was imported and then manually selecting just the second one but that didn't work. Re-importing the first one again worked fine.
I dumped the metadata for the first two clips but I cannot see anything that would explain why the first one can be imported but none of the others:
$ ffprobe -show_data -hide_banner footage08_001.mov Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'footage08_001.mov': Metadata: major_brand : qt minor_version : 512 compatible_brands: qt encoder : Lavf58.76.100 comment : DEMO1 comment-eng : DEMO1 Duration: 00:00:22.01, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 219975 kb/s Stream #0:0(eng): Video: dnxhd (DNXHD) (AVdn / 0x6E645641), yuv422p(tv, bt709/unknown/unknown), 1280x720, 219980 kb/s, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 59.94 fps, 59.94 tbr, 60k tbn, 60k tbc (default) Metadata: handler_name : VideoHandler vendor_id : FFMP encoder : Lavc58.134.100 dnxhd $ ffprobe -show_data -hide_banner footage08_002.mov Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'footage08_002.mov': Metadata: major_brand : qt minor_version : 512 compatible_brands: qt encoder : Lavf58.76.100 comment : DEMO1 comment-eng : DEMO1 Duration: 00:00:30.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 7791 kb/s Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1280x720, 7785 kb/s, 60 fps, 60 tbr, 15360 tbn, 120 tbc (default) Metadata: handler_name : VideoHandler vendor_id : FFMP encoder : Lavc58.134.100 libx264 As a matter of fact, I have several original footage that I broke down in the manner described above. When importing media, only the first clip is ever imported. So, I could see:
- footage01_001.mov
- footage02_001.mov
- footage03_003.mov
Imported correctly but never:
- footage01_002.mov
- footage02_002.mov
- footage03_002.mov
I searched blackmagic's forum and stackexchange for something vaguely similar to no avail.
It may well be something very silly but I would be really greateful if someone could shed some light in this mystery.
