Turns video pink and green after importing

I want to import a video (mp4, ) into DaVivi Resolve 16. PLaying it with VLC Media Player it looks normal but in Resolve skincolor becomes pink and shadows become greenish Screenshot). I've already tried to convert the video codec into MPEG-4 but that didnt work either.

Do I have to convert the video? If yes: Is there anything else besides the format and the codec that could cause the problem?

Do I have to change settings in Resolve?

Thanks in advance

having similar problems to this with H.265 codecs (lossy and lossless) in .mov. look fine in VLC but bright green and pink in resolve

[Shrinivas Ramani]

Hi Samuel

Can you add some info for context - OS, Resolve version, hardware setup, drivers etc? See FAQs for reference.

A shareable link to a DRP and media would help too.

Thanks
Shrinivas

Hi Samuel

Can you add some info for context - OS, Resolve version, hardware setup, drivers etc? See FAQs for reference.

A shareable link to a DRP and media would help too.

Thanks
Shrinivas

Hi Shrinivas,

pics 1 and 2 are showing part op the original image and codec details from VLC for the video I am converting.

Via a bunch of other code (not relevant to this issue) I am grabbing stills from this larger clip, and then combining them back together into a smaller video via FFMPEG.

I am using the command
ffmpeg.exe -y -f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb24 -s 3840x2160 -i - -vcodec hevc C:\Users\cruickss\Documents\repo\imagery\Target\28-09-2019\Zcam VIS\EYED1512_2019-09-28_173024.MOV\1_128_video_lossy1.mp4

pic 3 shows how it looks in Davinci resolve, and pic 4 shows its details in resolve. Its as if its not being read as rgb, but gbr, even though VLC can understand it fine.

pic 5 shows how it looks in VLC and pic 6 shows its details in VLC.

Hi Samuel

Can you add some info for context - OS, Resolve version, hardware setup, drivers etc? See FAQs for reference.

A shareable link to a DRP and media would help too.

Thanks
Shrinivas

Also, I am using Davinci Resolve 15 on a Windows 10 machine.

Hi Samuel

Can you add some info for context - OS, Resolve version, hardware setup, drivers etc? See FAQs for reference.

A shareable link to a DRP and media would help too.

Thanks
Shrinivas

just in case it helps. (i know this is getting a little far from resolve)

this is the image properties that I am creating the video out of using ffmpeg. Note that these images look completely fine in Davinci Resolve. (see pic 7)

[Shrinivas Ramani]

I'm confused by this description. I'll try to follow along.

My understanding of your test is as follows:
- You have an undescribed workflow, that in this example spits out Pic1.png - and you've attached that file here as-is for me to test with.
- You can preview the file Pic1.png fine in Windows, but not on Resolve.
- the other attachments - Pic2 through Pic6 look like screenshots - and I think they are for illustration and reference.

I've tried downloading Pic1.png as you've attached it. By itself shows up fine on Resolve 17 - both in source viewer and timeline viewer.

Update: In Finder, Pic1 is a 506x281 image, so it's all screenshots.

As requested earlier, a fuller picture of your hardware, drivers and other info, as well as a shareable link to a DRP and media - any media that you as a user will be able to download and check with - would be useful.

Lastly, do check if the issue persists on DaVinci Resolve (free or Studio?) 17 - which has a significant number of bug fixes over Resolve 15. Refer to the minimum requirements when downloading the update.

Regards
Shrinivas

So is this actually RGB H264 or is just the source RGB and the H264 is YUV? RGB H264 does exist, but it's fairly uncomment.

Could you share a screenshot from Media Info Tree View instead VLC, please?

Instead of 8bit RGB H264 you might consider 10bit YUV 444 H265. That even hardware decodes and encodes in NVENC.