Thursday, September 21, 2017

Tips for Importing Nikon D850 Footage to Davinci Resolve for Editing

Whether you're shooting weddings, landscapes, portraits, action or wildlife, the D850 won't leave you wanting. A much more versatile proposition than the D810 (and its closest rivals for that matter), the D850 is a brilliant DSLR, and perhaps the most well-rounded camera we've ever tested. For those photography enthusiast, second thing they have to do is to edit their works. So here comes the DaVinc Resolve, which stands out from professional editing software class and combines professional video editing with the world's most advanced color corrector and incredible new effects to allow you to edit, correct color, add effects and deliver projects from start to finish. DaVinc Resolve could be the best partner for Nikon D850.

DaVinc Resolve can support several different resolution: SD, HD. From its official formats website, we know this program covers a wide range of import/ouput formats as the list below.

Davinci Resolve supported file formats

DaVinci Resolve allows full unlimited editing and grading of anything in real time.
Video codec: QuickTime, Prores, DNxHD, MXF, DPX, CIN, EXR
Image format: TIFF, JPEG, MOV, TGA, BMP
Camera raw format: Blackmagic CinemaDNG RAW, ARRI Alexa RAW and Amira. RED One, EPIC , Scarlet and Dragon R3D files including +5K, monochrome and HDRx images, Cineform , Cineform 3D, Phantom Raw, GoPro, Nikon, Canon C300, C500 and 1D, 5D, 7D, Sony F65/F55/F5 RAW, Sony XAVC variants

Nevertheless, we still get some issues about importing Nikon D850 footage to DaVinc Resolve from some forums. As we all know, we can get MP4 with H.264 codec and MOV movies files from Nikon D850. You also can shoot 4k at 30 fps, Full HD at 60 fps and other HD files via this smart camera. However, MP4, MOV are just container which covers a lot of codec, so it is common that you meet formats incompatibility issues when editing footage on DaVinc Resolve. In this article, we have list several cases for you when you meet the same issues you can know something.

Option 1: When you get Full HD at 60 fps video but it is very choppy when you editing via DaVinc Resolve. To solve this problem, we strongly recommend you a powerful assistant - Pavtube Video Converter/For Mac, which could help you downscale 60 frames video to 30p, or 25p for smooth editing on Davinci Resolve.

Option 2: For getting H.264 MP4 footage then importing into Davinci Resolve, if you don't care about the output formats after edititng on Davinci Resolve, you can skip this. Cause Davinci Resolve could decode H.264 MP4, but can't encode H.264 MP4 on Windows and Mac. For those people who care about the output format, you can take measures as following I will show you. To be frank, MP4 is not friendly to non-linear editing program, no matter Davinci Resolve, or other editing programs. To solve the video format incompatibility issues, we highly recommend you to convert H.264 MP4 to DNxHD MOV, which could be the best video format for non-linear editing program. You must want to know how to convert H.264 MP4 to DNxHD MOV, keep reading.

Option 3: For those people who are crazy about getting 4k UHD video and want to bring your works to a higher visual level via non-linear editing program, like Davinci Resolve, After Effects, Adobe Premiere, however, if your computer is not powerful enough to editing those footage, Pavtube Vider covnerter also can help you solve those problem easily by downscaling 4k to 1080p.

Key Features about Pavtube Video Converter

  • Convert almost all Nikon HD audio/video to 200+ audio/video formats like, MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, WMV, etc.
  • Convert Nikon 4k/HD footage to massive non-linear editing programs, like iMovie, Adobe Promeire Pro, After Effects,Final Cut Pro and more.
  • Get footages of Nikon/Canon/Sony/Panasonic series footage for free playback on popular devices like, Samsung Galaxy Note 8, iPhone 8, iPhone X, iPad, PS4 Pro, and more.
  • Powerful editing functions enables you to trim or cut unwanted parts of recorings, insert subtitles, add creator's watermark, etc.
  • GPU acceleration technology available .

How to transcode Nikon D850 H.264 MP4 to Davinci Resolve for Editing?

Step 1: Add Nikon D850 H.264 MP4 with 30 frame video files.

Launch this assistant on your Windows, click the “Load file” or “Add Video” icon on the main interface to import Nikon D850 H.264 MP4 video into the program.

load H.264 mp4

Step 2: Choose DNxHD MOV as output file format.

Click "Format" bar, from its drop-down option, choose "Avid DNxHD 720p/1080p(*.mov)" best editing codec by selecting "Avid Media Composer".

ouput setting dnchd mov

Step 3: Downscale 60p to 30p(Optional).

If you worry about footage with 60p which can't be played on Davinci Resolve smoothly, you can click "Settings" on the main interface, and change "Frame Rate" from 60 to 30. you also can flexibly tweak video Codec, Size, Bitrate, Frame Rate, Audio Codec, Sample Rate as you like.

Tip 1: Generally, the higher the bitrate is, the bigger file size it will be.

Tip 2: For those people who has a weak computer but get 4k footage, you can downscale resolution form 3840*2160 to 1920*1080

60 to 30

Step 4: Edit video.

This program also supplies simple edition features, please click pen icon on the main interface, and enter the "Video Editor" interface, there are seven edit tabs: Trim, Crop, Text Watermark, Image/Video Watermark, Effect, Audio Editor and Subtitle for you to select. More feature you can check this review.

video editor

Step 5: Start the conversion process.

After all the setting is over, go back to the main interface and hit right-bottom "Convert" button to start Nikon D850 H.264 MP4 to Avid DNxHD 720p/1080p(*.mov) conversion process.

You can click "Open" and pop up the folder with converted file, then launch Davinci Resolve on your Windows/Mac to import Nikon D850 H.264 MP4 video to Davinci Resolve for editing.