Editing and previewing All Intra (All-I) footage

[christangey]

As usual I'm biding my time on buying the newest Mavic until I feel the bugs are ironed-out. I don't expect to see anywhere near as many, though, as the Mavic 3 Pro releases... as lets face it, a lot of that was still tied to the covid mess.

In the meantime I've been downloading 6K All-I (all intra) footage from Billy Kyle and Ian in London. I'm sure I'm missing something here but I thought that All-I footage should be similar to Prores and easier for my desktop to process, not harder, especially as it's a Mac. Instead, when I try to play a file on quicktime it is blank and even good-old VLC is stuttering, but albeit playing, the 6K files. When I drag a file into Final Cut it's blank, and in Davinci Resolve it simply says "media offline". I've actually up-resed .mov files to 8K in the past and they've played fine. Also my mac is no slouch being an Ultra Studio M2 so the actual processing power shouldn't be the problem. Anyone with ideas on an All-I workflow?

 

[AKA_Goodfella]

Which Mac and specs you got?

 

[christangey]

Which Mac and specs you got?

Mac Studio M2 ultra 24 core, 64g RAM, model 14,14, 60 core GPU Metal 3, running Sequioa 15.4.1

 

[Mrktn]

My laptop is 12 years old and really struggles with just standard H265 on Davinci Resolve (free version) and playing back even through VLC. Has one of the first gen i5 processors.

Have to consider a new machine before I even start thinking seriously about the Mavic 4 Pro etc.

Oh the cost

 

[christangey]

My laptop is 12 years old and really struggles with just standard H265 on Davinci Resolve (free version) and playing back even through VLC. Has one of the first gen i5 processors.

Have to consider a new machine before I even start thinking seriously about the Mavic 4 Pro etc.

Oh the cost

yes it's ok if you can build it into business costs but it must be really hard for others.

 

[Mrktn]

yes it's ok if you can build it into business costs but it must be really hard for others.

Yep, I work in the private sector as an employee and don’t need a drone for that purpose. Non business owner.

I’m just a pro-sumer who likes the best tools to showcase my visions in the air

 

[Kilrah]

especially as it's a Mac

Well, in this case it looks like it's your problem
I have an M4 Mini to play with and yeah, same thing on that. Seems it's a format that doesn't fit within what Apple supports.

Time to get a PC I guess...

 

[Dave Pitman]

Anyone with ideas on an All-I workflow?

Data point.
I downloaded one of BK's files to try. I have a decent spec win. laptop. I generally edit h.265 in Resolve Studio without proxy, and editing is smooth. DR renders the All-I clip just fine, but it is not smooth playing the file, and the pc is working. I would definitely need to go to a proxy workflow with these files on this machine. No other player I have installed will play the file.

 

[Dale D]

As usual I'm biding my time on buying the newest Mavic until I feel the bugs are ironed-out. I don't expect to see anywhere near as many, though, as the Mavic 3 Pro releases... as lets face it, a lot of that was still tied to the covid mess.

In the meantime I've been downloading 6K All-I (all intra) footage from Billy Kyle and Ian in London. I'm sure I'm missing something here but I thought that All-I footage should be similar to Prores and easier for my desktop to process, not harder, especially as it's a Mac. Instead, when I try to play a file on quicktime it is blank and even good-old VLC is stuttering, but albeit playing, the 6K files. When I drag a file into Final Cut it's blank, and in Davinci Resolve it simply says "media offline". I've actually up-resed .mov files to 8K in the past and they've played fine. Also my mac is no slouch being an Ultra Studio M2 so the actual processing power shouldn't be the problem. Anyone with ideas on an All-I workflow?

I am pretty savvy with tech but lately, it is getting past my ability to understand it. Anything that you create is usually fantastic so I cannot wait to see your stuff.

Dale

 

[BingBong]

I've got a decent spec desktop PC, and initially didn't think I had anything that would play BK's ALL-I video till I saw VLC mentioned above. Opening via VLC did the trick, but stuttery, better if if you let it buffer a bit first. Certainly looks sharp! I haven't tried it in Resolve Studio, as I'm unlikely to bother with it. Windows Media Player tries to claim ownership of the format, but refuses to play it.

 

[Kilrah]

till I saw VLC mentioned above. Opening via VLC did the trick, but stuttery,

VLC is pretty terribly optimized, on Windows try PotPlayer, it's better in pretty much every way and works fine with those heavy formats.

Works fine in Resolve Studio on Windows too.

 

[BingBong]

VLC is pretty terribly optimized, on Windows try PotPlayer, it's better in pretty much every way and works fine with those heavy formats.

Works fine in Resolve Studio on Windows too.

Wow, smooth as silk thanks!