How To Fix Video Import In Davinci Resolve For Linux

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[MikhailKoslowski]

3y later, software still broken and this solution still works. thanks!

[RTCCESS]

4 Years later and this still works, your a legend man

[anibaljasin]

Finally someone that knows how to solve this problem!

The command for a single file is this:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec mjpeg -q:v 2 -acodec pcm_s16be -q:a 0 -f mov output.mov

[maikeio]

This video was so helpful that I looked for a long time for a solution and even mentioned switching back to Windows, but thanks to this video the problem was solved.

[matzeman]

For those who have the problem that it says "*.mp4 no such file or directory", open the script and rename *.mp4 to *.MP4 . This helped for me as the files were called *.MP4 and not *.mp4

[guyhunter]

Because the link is dead here is the command :

mkdir transcoded; for i in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -vcodec mjpeg -q:v 2 -acodec pcm_s16be -q:a 0 -f mov "transcoded/${i%.*}.mov"; done

Beware that it will make files massive ~10x for me, others have said ~5x

[caseykreicar]

Literally had to come find this video again and it still works in 2022! Anyone who needs other formats than .mp4 just change that part ie. .mkv or some other file format -Thanks again

[pelaajahacks]

Thank you so much! I was so confussed when nothing worked, and i found out it was the compression. No luck trying to search how to remove compression, and then i found this video!

[leoNillo]

Having this exact same problem, gonna download this video and try to see if it works

EDIT: Didn't work at first because i'm using fish instead of bash, i just added a shebang "#!/bin/bash" and it worked FLAWLESSLY! thank you so much.

[HMolyneux]

absolute legend, spent 2 days looking for a fix, works really well

[ivarsanno]

After 2 hours of trying importing some of my old DV files into DaVinci, I found this video and you just saved my day! Thanks!

[davidsomething]

Thank you sooo much. I'm pretty new to Linux and could not workout what was going on till found this Vid. I have this working only had to install ffmpeg. For anyone with the issues please watch whole video. This works on my Ubuntu 20.04.1 . I don't know why Resolve free version on Linux has this issue because I'm sure Windows did not.

[Pufty]

I wish I could double-like this video. 2nd or 3rd time I am coming back to this with the script file creation being a cherry on top

[gero]

2 years old and still great value till date. Thanks a bunch! Link is gone, but a screenshot from the HD ob fullscreen gave the .sh

[Jaskiniowiec]

Thanks, it works for me. Unfortunatelly, the *.mov files are +/- 5 times bigger.

[arnaudj]

the link in the description works, you just need to press the "skip" button in the top right. saying this because I had trouble finding this button at first

[PremierPrep]

I have the Studio version and it's well worth the $300 price for more than just the codec support. My biggest, more like only, issue is the lack of AAC audio support.

[ramonantoniom.dangond]

i saw this video 3 years ago and Still up and running, Davinci is my main video editor, and on second place Kdenlive!! thank you!!

[iagod]

2 year old video and just saved my life, thank you very much

[jotaeme_tc]

The link isn't working for me, but I typed the command manually and it works just fine! You can copy it from here: mkdir transcoded; for i in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -vcodec mjpeg -q:v 2 -acodec pcm_s16be -q:a 0 -f mov "transcoded/${i%.*}.mov"; done

P.S. I tried to change the output format to mp4 and it doesnt work... Also, the output takes 3-4 times more space than the original file... I'll try some tweaking to see if that can be improved. Many thanks, it was really helpful!!