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I want to do some very simple cuts on an iphone video (shot as HD -30) and then export it out as an iphone video also. I was able to import it into Resolve easily just telling the timeline to follow the source. But I don't have the foggiest idea how to export it .

In this case I need to export it in the same format as the original because someone else is going to edit it together with other iphone videos from other people. But I'm also I'm interested in knowing how to include it in a program that will end up as HD 1920 x 1080 , or perhaps be intercut with other cameras and eventually output to Vimeo or Youtube.

Suggestions or Tips ? I don't know anything about how to deal with iphone footage .

In this case its a vertical image though in cases where it goes into a regular HD timeline it would more often be "landscape" which I imagine would fit into standard formatting fine.

whats so special about iphone footage? as far as i know its just h.265.

and are you sure you want to export as "iphone video" again?
i don't know what the other editor is working with but unless he's not editing it on his phone i would recommend exporting as dnxhr or prores (depending on the os you are running) or even just sending him your resolve project + the original footage if he is also editing in resolve.

exporting to h.265 would just be an unnecessary loss of quality because you would further compress a already compressed video. so i would avoid it if possible.

aManuel,
"whats so special about iphone footage?" I don't know, that's why Posted. I didn't even know it was H.265.

I wanted to send it that way because the person compiling the video is a video amateur and she was soliciting iphone footage from a few people that she would cut together. I didn't want to complicate her situation by giving her something she wasn't used to. It turns out I was able to just trim my footage in quicktime and send it along while still iphone formatted. Hopefully that will work.

But it brought to mind that I didn't know anything about working with those files. For example I have some video i shot of a friends band in vertical format but the top and bottom of the frame are waste- it needs to be reformatted to a normal wider than tall shape (16x9 or maybe just academy just cropping out the top & bottom), and then it could be placed in traditional video timeline. I had trouble figuring out how to do that though. In fact I still haven't finished it. Suggestions welcome.

Jim - Why did you recommend "shotcut" What does that offer?

Anyway I guess it sounds like an elementary dumb question (my specialty it seems) , but I'm open to any advice about how to use iphone footage in Resolve. Or just an arrow to a good tutorial.

Lenny

It should work on your iMac without any transcoding or the like. The only exception are 10 bit files from the newest iPhone Pro, which play nice only with M1 Macs.
But keep the problem of most (if not all) smartphones in mind: they don't record constant frame rates and that can cause all sorts of trouble, like bad audio sync. But give it a try, they are a bit less critical on Macs.