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Hello everyone,
I discovered and used DaVinci Resolve because my son's school was doing an activity to raise awareness of how a film is made.
Part of the activities were carried out at school and part at home.
However, I realized that my computer (with Linux Mint) is not able to open the *.mp4 files present in the project and I would have to convert them to *.mov but I would lose interoperability with the other members of the film project.
I understand that this is a codec licensing issue. I had to install Windows and DaVinci Resolve x win to be able to help my son do his homework.
I liked the software, so I'm interested in using it for other family video editing tasks but on Linux if possible.
So I would like to know two things:
-if I purchase the Studio license can I eliminate the problem of opening file formats with codec license under Linux (interoperability)?
-is the Studio license linked to the software or the type of version? That is, if I purchase it today (ver. 18.6), when version 19 comes out, is it still valid or not?
Thank you very much for the support you want to give me.

Refer to the Resolve Supported Formats and Codecs document for support across different platforms:
https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/ ... 5996810000

So far upgrades have been free. I think I bought v15. Might have been v16. I'm still current. The policy goes back much further than me.

Scuianut wrote:-if I purchase the Studio license can I eliminate the problem of opening file formats with codec license under Linux (interoperability)?

For video, most likely yes. But do note in the document Reynaud linked to that AAC audio isn't supported in the Linux version of DaVinci Resolve Studio. AAC is the most common audio codec used in .mp4 files.

I had the same problem as you when I started DR on Ubuntu.
I bought the Studio version and made a script to convert the audio into PCM.
With this script the video is not touched.
So, this script converts all the selected files and copies them in a folder .
From that folder I move them to the right place on my SSD.

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#!/bin/bash

IFS=$'\n'

for FILEPATH in $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS
do
   ffmpeg -i $FILEPATH -vcodec copy -c:a pcm_s24le -ar 48000 -y /media/data1/cameras/VoorDavinciResolve/$(basename "$FILEPATH")_pcm24.MOV
done


This script can be called within Nautilus, on this page you can read how it works.
It´s in Dutch but you can easely translate it.
https://linuxmag.nl/workshop/
Hope this helps.