A client edits the videos i give them on a mac in DaVinci Resolve. Usually i export
MOV
H.264 high quality realtime encoding
PCM 320 audio
Edit: these are 3-15 min video tutorials and they will be sent to my client via wetransfer, so i want them to be videos rather than image sequences.
And normally it works fine.
But recently its not worked for them.
Could it be that my most recent vid was at 24 rather than 25fps?
Any sugestions?
Are the old videos also failing to play? Then the problem is their system, not yours.
ProRes or DNxHD.
I think they can play them, but can’t import them into Resolve.
Wasn’t there something about Quicktime discontinued by Apple since… and using mp4 format… (almost interchangeable ) ?? Ahh yes:
Bloody Macs making everything harder for everyone!
I did try MP4 as well but with a separate WAV for the sound as I can’t use PCM sound in an MP4. And I also sent an MP4 with MP3 sound.
Well… supported codecs… (which version…)
Generally, mp4 is a bad idea if a file needs further processing. It’s a delivery format, unlike authoring formats like ProRes or DNxHD. When artifacts like color banding are burned into an mp4, the subsequent edit might get even lower quality.
Thanks, Okidoki ! Hmmmm… it looks like MKV may be the best option!
Yeah… these videos are tutorials of 3-15 minutes. They’ll end up on youtube with no extra colour correction or anything - just a little intro added - maybe with a face over a looped section of the video… as they’ll end up on youtube it’s best to see if banding will be an issue early on, rather than after my client posts.
Do a quick test of MKV (5 sec vid should suffice) and send, to be sure it works. Seems like I had an MKV a few months ago (exported from OBS) and after effects wouldn’t import it.
Agreed on MP4, it’s not good as an edit codec. Depending on the file, it will drag premiere to a halt due to needing to decode it for every frame. Zoom captures are usually a prime offender.
Yeah, Adobe products won’t use MKV. And it looks like Resolve won’t use MOV or MP4. Though everything is using H.264 it looks like there’s no universal video format.
There’s no universal cross-OS video format, anyway 
this is all so simple if you can just do all your video editing on Windows, shame you’re stuck in this situation
Why not see if they’ll accept an uncompressed image sequence? Those work fine in Resolve, in that they can be imported to play as a single integrated video clip.
Not sure about sending 15 mins of uncompressed image files over the internet.
I would suggest a single Prores codec file.
I can’t find ProRes that as an output option on Blender.
Try this: https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/428/write-apple-prores-files-from-blender
Also this: How to render in ProRes 422 HQ from PC? - #6 by Jaqueline
Sorry, should have been more clear on that. I render exr, then combine it into a prores clip in post. This may or may not be an option you have, but I noticed Joseph just provided some good resources that may assist as well.