What format is best for import into Resolve?
 

It won't accept Lagarith, UtVideo, uncompressed AVI...

Resolve is a pretty crappy software due to limitations. It will accept compressed H.264/MP4, color correct, and output more-compressed H.264/MP4. That's really the extent of it. It's mostly a for HD shooters, and ignores decades of video formats.

Premiere is still better.

LS, you must not have looked at Resolve in a very long time.

https://documents.blackmagicdesign.c...Codec_List.pdf

AVI avi Uncompressed RGB 10 bit
AVI avi Uncompressed YUV 8 & 10 bit

I output from Virtualdub2 to ProRes 422 for import into Resolve for final processing. Windows Resolve can't write out ProRes but it will import it fine. Mac version of course does both.

AVI 4:2:2 uncompressed is 75gb/hour. That's insane, and nobody does that.

Resolve is simply an HD-only, shooter-only, as intended target audience. I would suggest that Mac being allowed SD without issue is more of a happy accident than any sort of intentional planned feature.

While I want to like DaVinci Resolve, I cannot. It's limited. For SD uses, on Windows, it just sucks.

Realize this was true of Blackmagic cards as well. I want it to work, I want to like it -- but it fails at SD, and miserably.

Go back to SD-only era, and limitations that made something like Adobe Encore unusable for many projects (and best of all, more expensive than all of the competitors!)

Resolve is just another in a long line of disappointments.

I was pointing out that the OP said it did not accept uncompressed AVI when it in fact does. I wasn”t suggesting it should be used, those file sizes are crazy. I know the Grass Valley AVI codecs work, bit I've only ever used it once on a file someone gave me. I have no doubt you can make the older editors sing with SD footage, but Resolve can also still accept and process interlaced SD footage if desired. I convert to progressive before using Resolve, but many people still use interlaced footage in it. Maybe the Windows version of Resolve is more limited than the Mac version, I don't know.

To be blunt, the Windows version struck me as a resource whore. It tries to own your system.

I have a folder with an uncompressed avi. Resolve says that folder is empty.

Do you have file type extensions hidden? I seem to remember that being a problem at some point. Also try manually dragging the file into a bin from the media page instead of just pointing Resolve to the folder.

Hidden extensions isn't an issue with Windows that I've ever seen or read about. :hmm:

It definitely was on the Mac for files recorded around the time when DVCPro was the in thing. I thought I remembered hearing it was for Windows file types too. At any rate, I have better luck dragging files to the Resolve media bin than pointing it to a folder.

If that doesn't work you could always transcode easily in Virtualdub.

That doesn't work either, it's quite sure the file is incompatible.

Which is weird, because I have another uncompressed AVI that works just fine.

Strange indeed. I do whatever is best done in AVISynth and Virtualdub first, then use Virtualdub2 with its built in ffmpeg to transcode into ProRes422HQ for import into Resolve for final editing and grading. I'm on a Mac, however the Windows Resolve will read that, but can't export back to ProRes. So you'll need to export to whichever master format you use or straight to mp4 or whatever your final output will be.