DaVinci Resolve 19 Supported Codecs

[rand thompson]

PDF LINK

https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_Resolve_19_Supported_Codec_List.pdf?_v=1723705210000

 

[Les Hillis]

Thanks Rand, good to have the information all listed in one place.

I know the list is more handy for those using Resolve to work with different source footage and deliverables, but it reminds me too of the time I exported the same R3D clip from Resolve, using most of the supported codecs, to compare resultant file sizes.

Tested -

H.265
AVI GoPro Cineform
AVI Uncompressed
AVI Grass Valley HQX 4096x1716 Scope 2.29DCI
Cineon Image Sequence
DPX Image Sequence
EXR Image Sequence
MJ2 Kakadu JPEG 2000 RGB Image Sequence
TIFF Image Sequence
ProRes (From RCX)

Untested (not for any reason, just ran out of time) -

IMF (Kakadu JPG 2000 & easyDCP variants)
JPEG 2000 (Kakadu IMF & Kakadu DCP variants)
MXF OP-Atom (A multitude of DNxHR variants)
MXF OP1A (A multitude of DNxHR and other variants)
Quicktime (A multitude of types and variants)
MP4 (is covered by the H.265, has H.264 variant)

The original clip was a 5 secs duration 5184x4320 6.5:1 R3D (using REDcode 4:1 compression)

It was then exported as a 5 secs duration 5184x2160 2.4:1 (Ungraded, FullDataLevels, Rec.709 Gamma2.2) clip.

Here are the results using the different codecs (including variations of each codec's settings) -

H.265 - 105MB
MJ2 Kakadu JPEG 2000 RGB - 6400MBit-sec (Max) - 189MB
ProRes 422 Proxy - 243MB
AVI GoPro Cineform Least - 275MB
AVI GoPro Cineform Low - 309MB
AVI Grass Valley HQX - 312MB
EXR RGB half (DWAB Compression) Compression Level 300 (Max) - 333MB
EXR RGB float (DWAB Compression) Compression Level 300 (max) - 333MB
EXR RGB half (DWAA Compression) Compression Level 300 (Max) - 349MB
EXR RGB float (DWAA Compression) Compression Level 300 (Max) - 349MB
AVI GoPro Cineform Medium - 362MB
AVI GoPro Cineform High - 408MB
ProRes 422 LT - 471MB (From RCX)
ProRes 422 - 736MB (From RCX)
AVI GoPro Cineform Best - 802MB
***Original R3D - 1.08 GB***
EXR RGB half (DWAB Compression) Compression Level 45 (Default) - 1.08GB
EXR RGB float (DWAB Compression) Compression Level 45 (Default) - 1.08GB
EXR RGB half (DWAA Compression) Compression Level 45 (Default) - 1.11GB
EXR RGB float (DWAA Compression) Compression Level 45 (Default) - 1.11GB
ProRes 422 HQ - 1.19GB (From RCX)
ProRes 4444 - 1.54GB (From RCX)
ProRes 4444 XQ - 2.36GB (From RCX)
TIFF RGB 8 bits (LZW Compression) - 4.29GB
AVI Uncompressed YUV 422 8-bit - 5.04GB
EXR RGB half (PIZ Compression) - 5.81GB
EXR RGB half (ZIP Compression) - 6.71GB
AVI Uncompressed YUV 422 10-bit - 6.73GB
EXR RGB half (ZIP1 Compression) - 6.92GB
TIFF RGB 8 bits - 7.49GB
EXR RGB half (RLE Compression) - 8.99GB
DPX RGB 10-bit - 9.99GB
Cineon Image Sequence RGB 10-bits - 9.99GB
AVI Uncompressed RGB 10-bit - 10.0GB
DPX RGB 12-bits - 11.2GB
EXR RGB half (DWAB Compression) Compression Level 0 - 12.9GB
EXR RGB float (DWAB Compression) Compression Level 0 - 12.9GB
EXR RGB half (DWAA Compression) Compression Level 0 - 13.1GB
EXR RGB float (DWAA Compression) Compression Level 0 - 13.1GB
DPX RGB 16-bits - 14.9GB
DPX RGB half float (16-bits) - 14.9GB
TIFF RGB 16 bits - 14.9GB
TIFF XYZ 16 bits - 14.9GB
EXR RGB half (No Compression) - 15GB
TIFF XYZ 16 bits (LZW Compression) - 17.2GB
TIFF RGB 16 bits (LZW Compression) - 18.7GB
EXR RGB float (PIZ Compression) - 21.4GB
EXR RGB float (ZIP Compression) - 27.7GB
EXR RGB float (ZIP1 Compression) - 28.6GB
EXR RGB float (RLE Compression) - 29.7GB
EXR RGB float (No Compression) - 30GB

I thought it was interesting how well the camera-original R3D performed compared to the other formats, not just in file size but in ease of use too.