I’m trying to find a way to install and encode files into Avid DNxHD codec for cross platform use of output files. The reason I chose this format is because of it’s relatively small size, it’s HD, and it can include alpha information. Also I’m making every attempt to migrate to a Linux environment while retaining the ability to share files across multiple platforms.
Right now I can’t figure out how to, first of all install this codec in Ubuntu, although ffmpeg includes this somewhere (I can’t find it). Next I don’t know which encoder will allow me to chose it and encode to it.
Sorry … I’m a closet Linux user, excuse my ignorance:)
After struggling with ffmpeg and trying to figure out other solutions I tried importing a clip into “shotcut” a new video editor in development by a former KINO developer. Right now it’s more of a video trimmer than editor but it makes an amazing encoder and luckily for me it includes the DNxHD (.mov) output profiles I’m looking for
Kdenlive uses DNxHD for proxies. It also uses Melt as backend, just as Shortcut does. It should rely on FFMpeg for its video coding though.
Do you have the unstripped version of FFMpeg? Kdenlive installs the unstripped version instead of the default FFMpeg, possibly Shortcut is doing the same and that’s the reason it works now and not before trying Shortcut?
While I was attempting to convert in terminal using FFMpeg I was getting errors regarding settings not matching the format, but this could have simply been due to my inexperience with FFMpeg / terminal commands.
I did have Kdenlive installed prior to this as well as Shotcut (although Shotcut doesn’t actually install, just uncompresses to a folder).
I would ideally like to be outputting directly from Blender with Alpha using DNxHD but as far as I can tell it’s not available… .am I missing something?
BTW I’m not sure using Shotcut is giving me alpha either… I didn’t see the ability to change the Bit depth anywhere, maybe in Kdenlive.
Do you know what terminal command i would use in terminal / FFMpeg to, for example:
change resolution and specify a codec wrapped as a .mov?
