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Hello all, we want to let you know about a new feature in v17 that allows companies to offer a plugin pack for additional and optimized render formats.

The first company to offer this is MainConcept who have a Codec Plugin which offers DaVinci Resolve Studio users the ability to directly export a number of codec types like AS-11 UK DPP SD or HD compliant content, or rendered into HEVC in up to 8K resolution. With the plugin, projects can be rendered into professional broadcast camcorder formats, allowing exported video to remain in the original recording format.

Visit mainconcept.com/bmd-beta to see how it integrates into the Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve timeline and sign up for the free beta, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.


Update: This plugin pack now has a new June 2022 update.

Support now includes:

HEVC encoding up to 8K
Encode HEVC/H.265 Main and Main 10 in up to 8K in MP4 file format, widely used in OTT workflows and environments

AS-11 UK DPP Rendering
Supports AS-11 UK DPP SD (MPEG-2) and HD (AVC/H.264) project rendering with ready-to-use SD and HD presets, including metadata handling, direct from the DaVinci Resolve Studio timeline
The included XML metadata template file can be modified to set all descriptive metadata required to create AS-11 UK DPP compliant content
Metadata compliant

Pro camera formats and preset groups
Supports a wide range of professional camera formats and preset groups including:
Sony XDCAM EX, HD & IMX and XAVC & XAVC-S
Panasonic P2 DVCPRO and AVC Ultra (Intra and LongG)
MP4 HEVC (8-bit or 10-bit)
MXF (AS-11 UK DPP SD or HD & RP2027 AVC-Intra)
DVD (MPEG-2)
NEW: Blu-ray Disc
NEW: MP4 AVC (8-bit or 10-bit)

Is there also a way to allow for decoder plugins? I'd love to use the cut page to cut out all commercials from my DVR recordings, but the format it was recorded in isn't supported. (it's a fringe case, I realize this)

is there a roadmap of which plugins might be coming ? Like maybe prores in windows, and AAC audio in linux, too ?

Is there an SDK available for this?

RikshaDriver wrote:Is there an SDK available for this?

Yes, in help menu, documentation

This is super cool.

so thats the soft way of enabling prores on win/linux without striking a deal with apple then? Chapeau!
Lets just hope someone brings a good prores encoder, my hopes are on Drastic/MediaReaktor , ffmpeg and premieres implementation is not that good imho.

But the ProRes encoder in MediaReactor is FFmpeg.

MediaReactor wrote:Write MOV (FFMPEG) ProRes (ProRes, ProRes LT, ProRes HQ, ProRes Proxy)

roger.magnusson wrote:But the ProRes encoder in MediaReactor is FFmpeg.

MediaReactor wrote:Write MOV (FFMPEG) ProRes (ProRes, ProRes LT, ProRes HQ, ProRes Proxy)

Yea, If I understand correctly so is Nuke, but in case of nuke and (i hope mediaReaktor) its officiall prores encoder under the hood and they just use ffmpeg to do the Mov wrapping.

One of the best v17 features. It opens for customised/optimised exporters.

Great great feature for post houses trying to implement a full Resolve pipeline!

There is also now a way of execution some script after export finished.

Just verifying. Do the codec packs only work on the Studio version?

Gary Hango wrote:Just verifying. Do the codec packs only work on the Studio version?

Only Studio, yes.

x264_encoder_plugin, binaries for Windows, macOS, Linux

viewtopic.php?f=36&t=125570

Sergey Mirontsev wrote:

Gary Hango wrote:Just verifying. Do the codec packs only work on the Studio version?

Only Studio, yes.

Bummer.

Looking at the source code for the x264 encoder plugin, this all looks very simple. It's basically an interface to the encoder dll. So any encoder that is provided as a dll, with it's "include" files so the Resolve plugin can access the dll's functions, can be turned into a Resolve IO plugin.

Andrew Kolakowski wrote:There is also now a way of execution some script after export finished.

Hi Andrew, woul you have more info about this ? Thanks

They've added a feature called Workflow Integration where you can create plugins using the Electron framework. Find more info in the DaVinci Resolve/Developer folder of the installed app.

antoine wrote:

Andrew Kolakowski wrote:There is also now a way of execution some script after export finished.

Hi Andrew, woul you have more info about this ? Thanks

It's in the export GUI. Don't know exact details.

This is great news.

Any plans for decoder plugins? For file formats we'd like to add support for for input media.

finnjaeger wrote:so thats the soft way of enabling prores on win/linux without striking a deal with apple then? Chapeau!
Lets just hope someone brings a good prores encoder, my hopes are on Drastic/MediaReaktor , ffmpeg and premieres implementation is not that good imho.

It also allows them to dance around those ridiculous rent seeking software patents that only apply to Americans.

BMD folks, if you get information on 3rd party [commercial] prores encoder plug-in (for Windows), please post and let us know. Thanks!

Sergey Mirontsev wrote:x264_encoder_plugin, binaries for Windows

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=125439

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Ellory Yu wrote:

Sergey Mirontsev wrote:x264_encoder_plugin, binaries for Windows

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=125439

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viewtopic.php?f=36&t=125570

Topis was moved to DaVinci Resolve 17 Beta subforum by moderators.

Peter Chamberlain wrote:Hello all, we want to let you know about a new feature in v17 that allows companies to offer a plugin pack for additional and optimized render formats.

The first company to offer this is MainConcept who have a Codec Plugin which offers DaVinci Resolve Studio users the ability to directly export a number of codec types like AS-11 UK DPP SD or HD compliant content, or rendered into HEVC in up to 8K resolution. With the plugin, projects can be rendered into professional broadcast camcorder formats, allowing exported video to remain in the original recording format.

Visit mainconcept.com/bmd-beta to see how it integrates into the Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve timeline and sign up for the free beta, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Hello Are you
Webm and VP9 - does not require licenses

So still no answer on decoder plugins? I was hoping for ProRes RAW in the future.

There is nothing official about writing input plugins.
I'm bit disappointed that no one written ffmpeg exporter yet.

Decoders plugins would be very cool

We've just released beta4 of our encoding plugin for Resolve 17. We've added various improvements for DPP AS-11:
1 AS11 metadata optional sidecar XML file
2 Combined DPP template for SD and HD profiles
3 ColorRange (Full/Limited)
4 Fix for DPP Interlace

Please check this out.

If you previously registed for our beta, please download beta4 from our portal.
If you've not registed before, please do so here with the link below.

DonTequila wrote:We've just released beta4 of our encoding plugin for Resolve 17. We've added various improvements for DPP AS-11:
1 AS11 metadata optional sidecar XML file
2 Combined DPP template for SD and HD profiles
3 ColorRange (Full/Limited)
4 Fix for DPP Interlace

Please check this out.

If you previously registed for our beta, please download beta4 from our portal.
If you've not registed before, please do so here with the link below.

Can you please show this to developers? Probably fixed in beta4?

viewtopic.php?t=128517

Andrew Kolakowski wrote:I'm bit disappointed that no one written ffmpeg exporter yet.

It's on my To-Do list alongside other web codecs

Even simplest version without any GUI, just place to type ffmpeg command would be enough for start.
Creating ffmpeg GUI to cover all its codecs is quite a challenge.

I wonder if creating a frame server would be a better idea than creating a separate plugin for every codec. This would allow using your favorite encoder.

I contacted the creator of the Debugmode Frameserver, and he’s going to look into porting it to Resolve.

Nice

Sergey Mirontsev wrote:

DonTequila wrote:We've just released beta4 of our encoding plugin for Resolve 17. We've added various improvements for DPP AS-11:
1 AS11 metadata optional sidecar XML file
2 Combined DPP template for SD and HD profiles
3 ColorRange (Full/Limited)
4 Fix for DPP Interlace

Please check this out.

If you previously registed for our beta, please download beta4 from our portal.
If you've not registed before, please do so here with the link below.

Can you please show this to developers? Probably fixed in beta4?

viewtopic.php?t=128517

Yes, this is fixed in Beta4 of our plugin as well. Thank you for pointing me at this again, I forgot to mention it.

Gary Hango wrote:I contacted the creator of the Debugmode Frameserver, and he’s going to look into porting it to Resolve.

Hi all, I'm the Frameserver creator that Gary mentioned above (thanks Gary for drawing my attention to DaVinci Resolve). I'm just starting to install and check out the SDK. Happy to be here!

Wow this is great news a RAW timeline directly to FFmpeg encoding without an intermediate is as good as it gets

Yep, very useful. I assume pipe will be done over at least 16bit format. There should be choice of RGB and YUV as then we really on Resolve's RGB->YUV conversion with proper matrix based on project settings.

All that remains is to render the sound separately and attach it to the video

Why?
Is there no audio piping in Resolve SDK?

Andrew Kolakowski wrote:Why?
Is there no audio piping in Resolve SDK?

I thought there was no sound in the Frameserver. I was wrong.

Will BMD be adding/releasing plugins for their own hardware? I'd like a preset/plugin to export content that will play on a HyperDeck. Ive been having to some work arounds to get edited outputs to play on the HD-Mini.

Andrew Kolakowski wrote:Creating ffmpeg GUI to cover all its codecs is quite a challenge.

ProRes would be enough

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Hope it will be done soon!

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DonTequila wrote:We've just released beta4 of our encoding plugin for Resolve 17. We've added various improvements for DPP AS-11:
1 AS11 metadata optional sidecar XML file
2 Combined DPP template for SD and HD profiles
3 ColorRange (Full/Limited)
4 Fix for DPP Interlace

Please check this out.

If you previously registed for our beta, please download beta4 from our portal.
If you've not registed before, please do so here with the link below.

It is the demo version with a big ugly watermark on the encode.
Is this supposed to be the case for registered beta testers?
It does not make it possible to do quality analysis (via software) when the encode creates something that never existed in original, software see's it as different so lower quality

CougerJoe wrote:

DonTequila wrote:We've just released beta4 of our encoding plugin for Resolve 17. We've added various improvements for DPP AS-11:
1 AS11 metadata optional sidecar XML file
2 Combined DPP template for SD and HD profiles
3 ColorRange (Full/Limited)
4 Fix for DPP Interlace

Please check this out.

If you previously registed for our beta, please download beta4 from our portal.
If you've not registed before, please do so here with the link below.

It is the demo version with a big ugly watermark on the encode.
Is this supposed to be the case for registered beta testers?
It does not make it possible to do quality analysis (via software) when the encode creates something that never existed in original, software see's it as different so lower quality

I understand that quality assessment is not possible with the watermark. Please contact us for a non-watermarked version of the plugin, we are happy to provide a free beta license. Thank you and looking forward to hearing from you.

satishkumr wrote:

Gary Hango wrote:I contacted the creator of the Debugmode Frameserver, and he’s going to look into porting it to Resolve.

Hi all, I'm the Frameserver creator that Gary mentioned above (thanks Gary for drawing my attention to DaVinci Resolve). I'm just starting to install and check out the SDK. Happy to be here!

Having used the Debugmode Frameserver many times over the years, I can confirm that it is a great tool. It would be very usefull in Resolve, if it can be implemented, and would certainly solve many of DR's export limitations.
So, Satishkumr I'm looking forward to the possible implementation of a frameserving solution for Resolve.
Please keep us up to date on progress.

Actually BM could introduce piping.

resolve myproject -pipe - | ffmpeg -i - .....

this is how many tools can talk to each other in open source world.

Peter Chamberlain wrote:Hello all, we want to let you know about a new feature in v17 that allows companies to offer a plugin pack for additional and optimized render formats.

The first company to offer this is MainConcept who have a Codec Plugin which offers DaVinci Resolve Studio users the ability to directly export a number of codec types like AS-11 UK DPP SD or HD compliant content, or rendered into HEVC in up to 8K resolution. With the plugin, projects can be rendered into professional broadcast camcorder formats, allowing exported video to remain in the original recording format.

Visit mainconcept.com/bmd-beta to see how it integrates into the Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve timeline and sign up for the free beta, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

RE: encoding plug-ins - I just upgraded to Studio and don't see H.265 Master in the launch panel. Digging through the manual and forums didn't give me any insights. Apologies if this is covered elsewhere. This Codec Plugin sounds great and will investigate.