Damacone
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I thought I'd share the video editing setup I'm using to edit H.265 4K video from my P4P on a Windows PC.
Having looked around a bit, there doesn't seem to be much software that will support H.265 natively - I tried Power Director 15 briefly but was very disappointed with the output, which had very obvious artifacts which ruined the look of the video.
After a bit of investigation, I settled on the excellent Davinci Resolve 12.5, which is completely free - however, it doesn't support H.265. The general opinion seems to be that editing and producing from H.265 directly is a bad idea anyway, and converting to a format such as DNxHR seems to be the way to go.
So, I had a look for transcoding software - there are quite a few out there, many of which have different names and look suspiciously similar, and don't support DNxHR, so are limited to 1080p. Eventually, I found 'Convert v4' from hdcinematics which will transcode pretty much anything to anything (it's really just a nice front-end for FFMpeg) - and this allows me to convert to DNxHR at about 10fps on a (by modern standards) fairly modest PC with an SSD as the target drive for rendering.
In this format, you can edit in Resolve in pretty much real-time, and then render back to either H.264, or alternatively to DNxHR and then transcode back to H.265
Maybe all this is obvious to most people, but it took me a while to piece together a reasonable (and cheap) way to do this on a PC so I thought I'd pass it on.
What software / workflows are other people using?
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