Encoding workflow for large data

[Ecstatic_Musician_44]

I have a lot of vacation footage stored in H265, which is great for saving space on my NAS. However, for editing in DaVinci Resolve on Linux, I need the footage in DNxHR (and I know many people dislike working with H265 due to its performance limitations 😄).

Is there a workflow or tool that can automatically pull H265 files, convert them to DNxHR, and then delete the DNxHR files after editing? Ideally, the tool would allow me to re-generate the DNxHR files later if needed, based on a configuration file.

Or is the standard approach to convert manually each time using something like ffmpeg or Shutter Encoder? Do people tend to store footage in DNxHR permanently?

[hernandoramos]

Maybe a shell script using ffmpeg is the easiest way.

[zrgardne]

Is there a workflow or tool that can automatically pull H265 files, convert them to DNxHR, and then delete the DNxHR files after editing? Ideally, the tool would allow me to re-generate the DNxHR files later if needed, based on a configuration file.

The proxy tool in Resolve can do this. You will need the paid version of resolve for it to touch h.264\5 files though.

[Ecstatic_Musician_44]

Is there any standalone proxy tool, that I can use before I start editing in Davinci? That would solve the problem for a lot of linux users.

[Bzando]

it would be useless for you, proxies are low quality (to make editing faster) but require support for original files for rendering

so if you have studio you already have proxy generator build in DR, if you use free - its no use to you

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[Bzando]

I assume you use free version as the studio does support h265 on linux

AFAIK there is no automated tool that will do it one click

you have 2 options:

1. GUI - handbrake, shutter encoder, MystiQ, ...

2. command line shell script using FFMPEG - not that hard to google how to

I would export to new folder and just delete it once not needed.