Davinci Resolve Won't Import MOV Files, Solved

Davinci Resolve won't import MOV files

Thought I'd try 12 for some open credits. Made custom titles in AE, exported QT movies as animation with an alpha. Resolve refuses to see or import the files. Is this something I'm doing wrong?

Why Davinci Resolve not import MOV files

It is well know that MOV is a container file format which can encoded with various different video and audio codec, although Davinci Resolve supports to handle MOV files compressed with QuickTime, Prores, DNxHD codec, however, if you are trying to load other uncompatible file codec like MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (A)SP, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, VC-1/WMV, Real Video, VP8, VP9, MVC, etc, Davinci Resolve will definitely fail to load it.

Transcode unsupported MOV for Davinci Resolve

To get MOV files imported to Davinci Resolve, you can use a third-party video conversion app such as Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac to convert any unsupported MOV files to Davinci Resolve best supported formats like DNxHD, Prores, QuickTime, etc. Besides MOV, the program also enables you to transcode other unsupported file formats like AVI, WMV, MP4, AVCHD, MXF, XAVC S, etc for editing with Davinci Resolve.

Trim/Merge/Crop/Split/Watermark MOV Files

Want to do some basic video editing work before proceeding to the professional post-production workflow with Davinci Resolve? You can done that job with our program with ease. The "Trim" function assists you to remove unwanted parts or segments form your video, the "Merge" tool helps to combine all the separate video clips into single one file, the "Split" option facilitates you to split large files into small parts by file size, length or count and the "Crop" tool enables you to cut off unwanted edges around the video.

Step by step to Convert MOV to Davinci Resolve for Best Workflow?

Step 1: Load MOV files into the program.
Start the program on your Mac computer, click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" or "Add from folder" to load unsupported source video files into the program.

Step 2: Specify output file format.
Click "Format" bar, from its drop-down list, select Davinci Resolve best supported editing codec such as "Avid DNxHD (*.mov)" from "Avid Media Composer" main category menu extended list.

Step 3: Edit video. (Optional).
Before loading your video into Davinci Resolve for professional video editing, you can complete some basic video editing task with the program's built-in video editing function. Check an item to active the "Video Editor" function, then click the pencil like icon on the top tool bar to open the "Video Editor" window, you can trim video length, crop video black bars, add watermark, apply sepcial rendering effect, remove/replace audio in video, etc.

Step 4: Begin the conversion process.
After all the settings are done, click right-bottom "Convert" button to begin the conversion from MOV to Davinci Resolve DNxHD conversion process. Then you will have no problem to import any video into Resolve for fast and smooth post video editing.

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