I've just realized that Adrian was originally referring to Panasonic DMC-GM5 footage, not the GH5 10-bit 422 files discussed in that thread Chip linked to.
Chip.Murphy wrote:Adrian Sancho wrote:Thanks for your replies. I've tried some test footage now from 3 different sources, a GoPro-type SJ4000 running h264&32k audio, a Panasonic GM5 running h264&48k audio, and some old SD MPEG-2/48k footage.
Resolve can see the drive and the folders the media is in, but shows the folders as empty. Searching around the web shows this to be a longstanding issue with Resolve on both Macs and PCs, so I find it baffling that the issue persists. I assume there has to be a solution.
Thanks for any help with this.
GM5 10 bit files are only supported in Resolve Studio 12.5.5I bet the H264 footage is some funky flavor and Resolve probably doesn't support the mpeg2 stuff. Try transcoding it to Cineform, dnxhr, etc in another program.
The GM5 records AVCHD and I've just tested some native 1080/50p.mts clips that I sourced from a CameraLabs (Gordon Laing's) review:
https://www.cameralabs.com/panasonic_lumix_gm5/Always a good place to look for native video samples.
On my system (Win7 x64) Resolve 12.5.5 does import the video component (AVC High@L4.2, 8-bit 4:2:0) of these files, but not the AC3 audio, which is not supported due to Dolby licensing issues......that I do know, at least. Whereas some archived 1080/30PF.mts (AVC High@L4, 8-bit 4:2:0, AC3) clips from my old Canon HF-G10 are not imported at all - although I recall that when I first tested an early beta version of Resolve 12.5, the video stream was imported from these files.
On the other hand, I can (thankfully) import 1080/30p (AVC High@L4.1/AAC) and 1080/60p (AVC High@L4.2/AAC) mp4 clips from my Canon HF-G30 without any issues, as also the UHD 60p.mp4 (High@L4.2 8-bit 4:2:0, PCM) clips in that set of GH5 sample clips from Neumannfilms. It's the 10-bit 4:2:2 GH5 files that are the issue. Yet I can import several sample 10-bit UHD 25p XAVC.mxf files (ca.230Mbps, High 4:2:2 Intra@L5.1, PCM) encoded with Adobe Media Encoder that I have to hand. So what gives ?
Again, I would really appreciate if someone from the BM team could explain what makes these GH5 files so funky that they are only supported in the Studio version of Resolve, if that is indeed the case.
Incidentally, I've just been running a trial of Pegasys Mastering Works 6 and it imports those UHD 10-bit 4:2:2 GH5 clips perfectly well. Yet Resolve 12.5.5 (on my system) will not import any of the 10-bit 4:2:2 (Intra@L5) or High 4:4:4 Predictive (Intra@L5) export formats. Mastering Works 6 uses (licensed) x264 encoding, by the way.
As for your dilemma with your Panasonic GM5 AVCHD (as assumed) files though Adrian; whilst searching the forum on the subject of H264 support, I came across this statement made by Rohit Gupta from Resolve Software development:
https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=52934&p=305401&hilit=Windows7+update#p305494 Reading that, I of course checked to see whether I have that Win7 update installed, and I do. You might want to check that also, if you haven't already. Just a thought.