Cary Knoop wrote:Oh no, Resolve's H.264 is rather limited and glitchy.
It's better to export to an intermediate file (ProRes, DNxHx, Cineform) and then generate using x264.
Just as a side note. I've been thinking about the whole internal vs external H264 encoding 'dilemma' again of late, and of all of the forum discussions that have speculated on 'what could be' if Resolve supported FFMPEG export.
For some years now I've been using Pegasys (TMPGEnc) SmartRender 5 (and before that, version 4) for cut-editing of native HD-AVC footage. Excellent product. It uses a licensed (and configurable) x264 encoder implementation and is one of the very few so called 'smart cutters' that does frame-accurate smart-rendering
properly. Pegasys have always been strict on standards compliance. Resolve even accepts the trimmed/joined files without question, so that's saying something.
Perusing their product page, as I was the other day, I saw that they also have AVC (and MPEG-2) export plugins for Edius Pro and Premiere Pro:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/e9mp4.htmlhttp://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tppm4.htmlNot being an Edius or PP user, I haven't tested either myself.
But I wonder if BMD might give thought to getting together with Pegasys and developing a similar plug-in for Resolve ? Feasibly it could be the ideal solution. Those who are content with the internal H264 encoder could stick with it. Those who yearn for integrated x264 export could buy the plugin, and we could dispense with this need to export to a bulky and lossy 422 intermediate. Maybe x265 export also. Of course it would need to be supported by both the Studio and Free versions.
Just a thought, but a quite reasonable one at that.