This presentation discusses the state of remote production investment in the media industry and its impact on content supply chain priorities.
State of Remote Production
In The Hub Ep 36 – News Broadcasting in 2021 – w/John O’Loan
This week, we welcome John O’Loan from iO Media Group back to the In the Hub podcast. John was our first official guest back in 2020, and it’s fair to say that a lot has changed in the broadcasting industry since then. We catch up with John to find out how he got started in broadcasting, how journalists should change the way they work and where news broadcasting is headed post-covid.
Ready. Set. Stream! Event based opportunities for Channel Originators
Event-based television is becoming increasingly important for channel originators, broadcasters and content owners. Beyond examples of sports and news, these events also include the latest release of a cliffhanger drama or millennial reality TV programs. The huge followings attracted by this type of programming and content underline just how important these scheduled TV events are. Missing out on the latest plot line reveal or who is ‘out’ via social media is now just as critical as not knowing the latest sports scoreline.
Scheduled viewing opens new opportunities for channel originators, broadcasters and content owners to increase audience share and create monetization opportunities. Additional content can be curated, streaming channels developed, and new shared viewing experiences can be created enabling deeper fan engagement for this content. This could include use cases such as linking main screen and second screen experiences using HBBTV or fast deployment of content to social media. Monetization options range from micro-payments for additional content or merchandise, through to personalized advertising.
Addressing these opportunities requires new workflows that can be quickly and simply deployed through an ecosystem including acquisition, playout and graphics through to streaming and, of course, the end-user experience. This is a perfect use case for an ‘as-a-Service’ proposition that will enable channel originators, broadcasters and content owners to create these new experiences - without an ongoing commitment.
Now Available: The All New ShareBrowser Media Asset Manager
Creativity doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s often a careful cooperation between close teammates working toward the same goal. ShareBrowser, the media asset manager included with EVO video editing servers, has become the heart of this collaborative production workflow for the world’s leading media studios, corporations, sports teams, government institutions, marketing teams, churches, universities, and more.
And now, with the latest ShareBrowser release, this powerful and easy-to-use media asset management system just got even better.
The new ShareBrowser media asset manager (MAM) features a stylish new look for a modern user experience across devices, plus a slew of new features and integrations that make media workflow more productive and efficient for creative professionals.
EVO’s included ShareBrowser MAM system takes collaborative, creative workflow to new heights with this latest release. Come see what’s new in ShareBrowser’s latest software release—now shipping with new EVO shared storage media servers.
Watch our webinar about the new ShareBrowser release, recorded live on May 11, 2021 – https://youtu.be/WYLS4f6uMqU
Intuitive New Interface
You work with beautiful, high-resolution footage and displays. Shouldn’t your organizational tools do the same? We think so, too.
The new ShareBrowser media asset management software features an all-new look and feel, modernized for the creative video production community. Your media thumbnails will pop against the sleek gray tones of the new ShareBrowser interface as you browse your perfectly curated catalog of footage.
ShareBrowser’s sleek, new interface offers a consistent user experience across your devices. So whether you’re using the feature-rich ShareBrowser desktop app on Mac or Windows, or the more streamlined ShareBrowser web app in your preferred browser (no software installation required), everyone on your team will enjoy the same modern look and feel.
Back to those media thumbnails, you can easily toggle between two view settings—list view and gallery view—to browse your media any way you want. If you identify media files better by thumbnail rather than file name, this new feature is for you. Most importantly, having the choice between these two view settings gives each team member the flexibility to experience your file system in the way they work best.
The new ShareBrowser is so much more than a pretty face. The most important part of EVO’s ShareBrowser media asset manager is its organizational tools, which also got an upgrade with this new release.
Bins, Bins, Bins!
ShareBrowser users love their bins. ShareBrowser bins are an elegant and flexible way to organize files without moving or copying them. What’s not to love about that?
The latest ShareBrowser release takes this love of bins to a new level. Bins can now be searched, where queries can return results from individual shares, all shares, or even a defined selection of shares.
Thanks to feedback from loyal users, you can also use ShareBrowser bins with Nomad, EVO’s included remote editing utility. This is a major workflow opportunity for teams working from home or in a hybrid on-prem/off-prem environment. Simply add media you will need to access remotely to a bin, and retrieve proxy files of the media in that bin using Nomad from home. As if EVO didn’t make it easy enough to work from home, your remote video editing workflow is now bin-friendly, too.
Bins are among the most popular features our customers talk about when raving about the ShareBrowser software—that and its convenient tagging capabilities. For those who love ShareBrowser’s tagging features, you’re in for a better user experience, too. It’s now easier than ever to add custom metadata like the DP or client’s name to a media file. It’s also more intuitive to add tags to entire folders in bulk, a useful tool for importing new footage shot from a single location or cascading tags into themed media content.
Simple and Sophisticated
We’ve built several new and sophisticated features into the ShareBrowser MAM system, all with the goal of improving your media creation workflow. Even with this increased sophistication, ShareBrowser hasn’t lost sight of its guiding principles: simplicity and ease of use.
To simplify workflows, ShareBrowser helps users easily see which files are online and offline with a simple, visual file status. Offline files will show as transparent when browsing media in both list and gallery views, so editors can easily identify the file’s status before taking an action on it.
Remote Editing with ShareBrowser
Access to proxy files can make or break a smooth remote video editing workflow. The new ShareBrowser makes it easier to create and download your preview proxies for offline editing and remote production workflows.
What are preview proxies? Preview proxies are the small thumbnail videos you watch when previewing media in ShareBrowser. Slingshot, EVO’s automations engine and API, can automatically transcode your media into preview proxies on a recurring schedule. But, if a particular clip was not transcoded, or if you haven’t set up EVO’s auto-transcode feature yet, the new ShareBrowser can instantly create a preview proxy for you with a simple right-click selection.
These preview proxies can then be downloaded to any remote workstation with Nomad and used for offline editing, mezzanine workflows, and collaborators working from anywhere.
Web App-reciation
The ShareBrowser web app is a powerful media asset manager in an easily-accessible package. Web app users can search, preview, tag, and comment on media through their preferred web browser, even without local network access to the file system. Simply point your browser to EVO, log in, and get tagging.
With the new ShareBrowser, web app users can do even more. You can browse the entire directory structure, navigate files and folders, search by volume, create preview proxies, and download preview proxies for offline review and remote editing. All of this is possible through the convenient, browser-based ShareBrowser web app, which requires no software to download or install locally.
This makes the ShareBrowser web app even more useful for your review and approval process, as well as for remote and on-site collaborators who need to preview, tag, and comment on footage without interacting with the file system directly.
Creative Workflow Integrations
EVO is built for creative media production, and that means it’s built to work with the tools and technology you use in your workflow. We have integrations with Adobe, Ross Video, DaVinci Resolve, Amazon, NewTek, Final Cut Pro, cloud storage, and many other products and services in your production environment. We’re constantly developing and enhancing our integrations to optimize your team’s creative workflow and improve your experience with our products.
Top NLE Integrations
The ShareBrowser panel for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects is a fan-favorite integration for creators hooked on the Adobe video editing software suite. With the ShareBrowser panel, Adobe users can search their media asset management system directly in Premiere or AE, import their media into a project, and easily see all of their metadata for a faster video editing workflow. The new ShareBrowser panel also allows Adobe creators to open a Premiere project directly from the panel and open a clip directly in the Premiere source window from their shared storage—all without leaving Adobe Premiere Pro.
Not an Adobe shop? ShareBrowser will also soon integrate directly into DaVinci Resolve Studio, so you can search your MAM, preview clips, and import your media and metadata directly into your project without leaving Resolve. Subscribe to our blog to get the latest news on ShareBrowser and DaVinci Resolve.
ShareBrowser also features an integrated extension in Final Cut Pro and works in beautiful harmony with all the major production applications like Avid Media Composer, Pro Tools, Blender, Nuke, and more.
Archive Integrations
A rich media archive is only useful if you can find what you need from it. Integrating your archival system with your media asset management system can open up a world of possibilities and add immense value to your historic footage.
EVO integrates with a variety of cloud service platforms and can be configured to automatically backup and replicate media to the cloud for a low-maintenance archival workflow. If your video production team uses a cloud-based archive system, and you’re using EVO’s built-in replication features, then your files will remain searchable in ShareBrowser even after they are archived. The metadata remains intact, so you can continue searching your archives directly in the ShareBrowser media asset manager.
If your team focuses more on LTO/LTFS tape archive, check out ShareBrowser’s new integration with StorageDNA. You can search your archived files in ShareBrowser, which are easily identified by a tape icon centered on the media thumbnail. You can also send clips to the StorageDNA archive or restore archived media with a simple right-click selection.
EVO is built for creative media production, so whether you archive to the cloud or LTO tape; edit in Premiere, Resolve, Final Cut, or Media Composer; or use a myriad of other media production tools, EVO is ready for it all.
Advancing the API
Our API makes all of these great integrations possible. It’s an incredible force working behind the scenes to make your collaborative video editing workflow as smooth and simple as can be.
You don’t need to know all the details (or any, really) about our API to fully optimize your MAM workflow with ShareBrowser. Just sit back, and let the API do its thing.
For those who are interested in the more technical features of our API, we’ve added some new upgrades for better third party integrations and a more seamless content creation experience for our users. Here are a few API upgrades to geek out about.
Custom fields are now connected more fluidly within the API, so you now have the ability to parse, insert, and search your custom metadata with the API. This makes it much easier to transition to ShareBrowser if you’ve been using another media asset management or digital asset management (DAM) system. Interested in switching to ShareBrowser? Let’s talk.
We’ve also added protected and invisible fields in ShareBrowser, accessible through the API. This allows third party integrations to create and edit fields that users can’t modify (protected) and fields that users cannot see at all (invisible). These restrictive fields minimize the potential for user error while maintaining system-to-system links, ensuring that your files and metadata will always get to where they need to go.
MAM of the Future
We’ve put a lot of hard work into redesigning ShareBrowser to better serve video editing teams like yours. The result is a chic, new interface with better features, more functionality, and an improved user experience.
But there’s even more to it than that. The new ShareBrowser system establishes a forward-looking architecture and provides a foundation for future development, meaning a better ShareBrowser for you today and incredible potential for years to come.
So if your team needs a new content management server solution that will get (and keep) your team organized—one that has powerful features, advanced integrations, an easy-to-use interface, and all the collaborative tools you need for a smooth media production workflow—look no further than ShareBrowser. It’s the ultimate MAM system designed for creative media production, and it’s included free in unlimited fashion with EVO high-performance video editing servers.
EVO users running EVO OS v6.1.5 can upgrade to the new ShareBrowser by contacting SNS support.
To schedule a demo, place an order, or request more information about EVO and the new ShareBrowser media asset manager, contact SNS today.
Steps for successful software implementation
After the decision is made to implement a new software product in an organizational structure, or for an individual end-user, we must make sure that the implementation is a smooth and structured process and that all key users are getting involved, to minimize the risk of rejection.
Good change management and planning reduces the risk of failure of a new system. While the main concern may be to achieve a business alignment from the organizational view, it also requires work to get acceptance from the future users.
Below we outline the main steps of farmerswife software implementation. These steps can be completed in different ways according to the desired method:
- Parallel – the new software is implemented parallel to an existing system and will be replacing the existing system at a certain point.
- Phased – the new system will replace an existing system gradually and in smaller steps.
- Pilot – a pilot group will be using the setup before, then switching to the live system.
- Direct – the new software is directly going live without phasing out the old system.
Source: https://computersciencewiki.org/index.php/Implementation_methods
1. Preparation and Planning
Good preparation is very important for the successful implementation of a new business software. Goals should be determined along with the objectives the new systems needs to fulfil. Our team of experienced Product Specialists will guide you in this initial step.
2. Knowledge Transfer
Implementing a new system can also be an opportunity to study and review current workflows, as well as implementing new processes that will be identified during this period. The more detailed the practices and business processes are described, the better we will be able to understand and help tailor the database setup to these needs.
In addition to a workflow analysis it is useful for the Product Specialists to understand the rate structure and services that are offered by the the client and also review price lists and rate cards. Depending on the different modules that are going to be used (Budgeting/Quoting, Invoicing), details and examples of quotations, invoices, reports are useful to setup and comply the objectives.
Together with the client we’ll setup a call to review the information and discuss how to best setup the database.
3. Database Configuration and Installation/Setup
Depending on the purchase model we’ll either send all the information and installer for local installation or we’ll prep your cloud hosted system and send login information.
After installing the farmerswife Server and Client application it is time to set up the database with Users, Equipment, Machines, Contacts, Rates etc. Ideally you get your hands on the system as soon as possible, to be closely involved in the object setup and further configurations. This is usually done as 1-1 sessions with your Project Manager, followed by specific tasks for you to continue with until the next session.
4. Implementation and Workshop/Training
Software on-boarding is technically speaking the phase where users are being trained in successfully using the new software. It is also to guide through the implementation and supporting all users every step of the way.
Once the basic workflows have been discussed it’s time to get together for an implementation workshop. Whether we’re going to do this online, onsite or offsite, ideally most of the setup has been done before the workshop takes place so we can focus on the actual functionality of the system; practicing the established daily workflows and making smaller adjustments which come up during that training. Ideally the main workflow changes have been discussed beforehand.
5. Post training follow-up
After the workshop and defined go-live date our product specialists are in close touch to make sure you have a smooth start in using farmerswife. We’ll setup goals, milestones and regular follow up meetings until you’re fully up and running.
Please let us know if you have any questions on the above! We love to help you setup your farmerswife system just the way you need it and we do this a lot so don’t hesitate to ask!
Don’t hesitate to contact us!
We at the farmerswife support team are happy to help you with any questions you might have. We are just an email or a phone call away!
Want to learn more about farmerswife? Check out our upcoming Webinars!
farmerswife Case Study: Urban Brew Studios
farmerswife enables clear visibility on availability, scheduling and utilization across the various studios and other resources allowing for more informed decisions to be made more efficiently.
Location:
South Africa
Type:
television production, outside broadcasting, content generation, branded content, channel management, graphics, video editing, audio post-production, music composition and facilities hire.
Established in 1998, Urban Brew Studios is a world class facility with award winning productions. With 9 studios with control rooms, a full video & audio post-production department. Urban brew Studio’s production department has done productions with a wide variety of genres. Eg, music shows, children shows, game shows and telenovelas. The company has two Gospel channels that are on the Multichoice bouquet and has hosted productions like The Voices SA, IDOLS SA and Family Feud SA.
THE CHALLENGE
Before we started using farmerswife we did our bookings on excel spread sheets and had these huge whiteboards in our offices.
We encountered that we needed to see our crew and studio utilization, in order to make business decisions. We also never did internal invoices for services rendered between different departments within Urban Brew.
THE SOLUTION
We have been using farmerswife since 2016 and it has definitely added value to the business within terms of availability.
We make use of farmerswife for bookings of studios, control rooms, equipment, crew, audio & video post-production, and for utilization reports on all services, budget vs actual reports on productions and facilities.
farmerswife enables clear visibility on availability, scheduling and utilization across the various studios and other resources allowing for more informed decisions to be made more efficiently.
As each production house runs different workflows, the flexibility of farmerswife really assists and adapts to our business requirement
THE SUPPORT
farmerswife team is a Rockstar team! The turnaround time on queries is very quick even with the different time zones.
farmerswife Case Study: Instant News Services
Introducing and using farmerswife at INS has been a game-changer for our business, our resources and our clients.
Location:
Belgium, Brussels
Type:
Broadcast, online event, post production and media production.
Website
Instant News Services (INS) is an audiovisual production company based in Brussels. For over thirty years, European institutions, government agencies, businesses and world-leading broadcasters have trusted INS to tell their stories through compelling and innovative multimedia content produced around the world. We’re experts at capturing the essence of an event, policy or initiative and bringing it to the screen. INS boasts an unparalleled network of creative professionals, with whom we produce hundreds of interviews, reportages and animations every year.
THE CHALLENGE
Our network of in-house resources, freelancers and external contributors were mainly coordinated by phone, mail or text message. Once bookings were confirmed, the production team had to note them down in a paper agenda, as well as on a whiteboard situated at the heart of the production office, visible by all the people booked that day.
At the end of the day, our collaborators had to complete a form to confirm the bookings done during the past day. Those forms were used to invoice our clients and our freelancers.
THE SOLUTION
We have been using farmerswife since January 2020 and it has radically changed the global view on the workflow in terms of timeline.
After explaining our way-of-working and undertaking a short setup phase with farmerswife, we introduced a cloud version of farmerswife which offers a range of new tools which we use to organise and follow productions at INS. Within a couple of weeks we passed from a purely analogue way of working to a fully digital schedule that can be shared with all members of our production team and our creative collaborators.
As we work mainly in news gathering with short deadlines, using farmerswife improved our reactivity when bookings are requested in less than an hour. The production teams have a dynamic and visual tool to identify the resources and profiles available. We intend to continue the implementation with our financial teams, allowing us to manage a complete workflow from client request to invoice within the farmerswife environment. A third phase will be to invite all our human resources and freelancers to access the platform and participate in the planning. Last but not least, we will use farmerswife to index our technical equipment and oversee its deployment and maintenance.
THE SUPPORT
Support has always been very accessible and very helpful.
The Value of Benchmark Testing for Video Codecs
If you’ve ever developed or created something, you likely realized it is rarely sufficient to only test it by yourself. While “in your lab” everything works as you imagined it, when applied to the real world you may quickly find that you missed something—whether it’s because others use your product in a different way than you intended, or that your product was tested on a fast computer and now must perform on a lesser-powered system. For this reason, it is extremely valuable to have reliable partners to assist with independent testing and validation.
Who performs benchmark testing for video codecs?
Moscow State University (MSU) is the preeminent resource for codec testing. MainConcept® is fortunate to have worked with them for over a decade as they provide independent verification of our codec technology and test it against other available solutions. Their tests have motivated our engineering teams to improve, rework and optimize our video encoders so they remain at the forefront of the codec world.
How do you test a video codec?
MSU develops and runs a set of standardized tests that provide an objective assessment of the qualities that need to be measured, including speed, quality and speed-quality trade-offs. Since a video codec can be looked at in many different ways and given the vast array of parameters that can be used, one codec may excel at low resolutions while another may flex its muscles at very high bitrates. One codec may offer a plethora of settings for the user to tweak, while others may appear to be a simple black box.
For anyone who wants to test a codec, the very first step is to “make sense” of all the variables and parameters, followed by defining a few dedicated use cases and elaborating on them very clearly. For example, the most recent iteration of MSU’s HEVC comparison focused on:
- One resolution
- One chroma-sampling type
- Two bit-depths
- Two use-cases
With these defined scenarios, the testing challenge became manageable, with all codecs playing by the same rules. Now, the tester could simply just take a codec, run the application that controls it and list the results. But this is not MSU’s approach. Prior to starting the benchmark testing, MSU’s experts work with the codec vendors to find and identify the optimal settings for the given use cases. They spend countless hours analyzing the tests, discussing variables, tuning parameters and listening to vendors’ feedback on how to achieve the best results.
What do the results of codec testing reveal?
MSU’s results represent not just looking at a “5-minute black-box” test, but instead the result of performance tuning for each benchmark candidate to get the best possible result. But MSU continued to go above and beyond. In the report, they share their findings and the optimal tuning for each codec, effectively enabling anyone to reproduce and validate their results.
When reading through the MSU report, you not only get a “who’s who” in the codec industry and a “who’s best,” but the details of the report provide a definitive guide to setting up a codec for a well-defined use case.
The process leading up to the report helps us as technologists to incorporate all of MSU’s feedback into future versions of our codec, so that our customers benefit from the collaborative effort. And it is not just MainConcept’s direct customers who benefit, but the users of our customers’ products benefit as well since our technology is deployed in industry-leading products such as Adobe Premiere Pro, MAGIX Video Deluxe and VEGAS Pro, AVID Media Composer and Media Central, and Wowza Streaming Engine.
How do MainConcept HEVC codecs compare to other products?
In the most recent HEVC video codec benchmark comparisons by MSU, MainConcept products continued to lead the industry. In the 10-bit tests, which used x265 as a reference, the MainConcept HEVC codec produced the best quality. Improving on the previous study, it showed up to 30% higher bitrate encoding efficiency (when compared with open source).
In the 8-bit encoding tests, MainConcept led the list for best speed-to-quality trade-off, an important factor for streaming as well as other use cases that rely on fast and reliable content delivery.
The best is yet to come
As we look towards the future of codec technology, I believe the best is yet to come and that MainConcept, established over a quarter of a century ago, will continue at the forefront of technical innovation. If you have questions or need assistance as you plan for the future of digital video post-production, broadcast or delivery, we are always here to help. Just email us or apply for a free trial of our software.
DaVinci Resolve Studio Project Rendering Capabilities on Linux and macOS
Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve Studio is a unique NLE (Non-Linear Editing) solution available for all major platforms (Windows, Linux and macOS), including a version that is running on the new Apple M1 chipset. The number of project rendering profiles that are already included in DaVinci Resolve Studio is quite impressive. However, especially on Linux (but also on macOS), there are some limitations. The MainConcept® Codec Plugin for DaVinci Resolve Studio was designed to bridge this gap and enable software codecs with encoding profiles that are not natively available.
The platform defines the available codecs
Video-editing software needs to deal with many different formats both for ingesting streams and exporting projects. This is also true for Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve Studio where the platform determines which codecs are present. Depending on the operating system you use, the available codecs may have some limitations.
Capabilities of DaVinci Resolve Studio on various platforms
| Codec | Software | IQSV | NVENC |
| AVC Windows | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AVC Linux | No | Yes | Yes |
| AVC macOS (Intel or M1) | Yes | No* | No* |
| HEVC Windows | No | Yes | Yes |
| HEVC Linux | No | Yes | Yes |
| HEVC macOS (Intel or M1) | Yes | No* | No* |
*On macOS (Intel) and macOS (M1), GPU encoding is available via the Metal framework if it is supported by the hardware.
For example, under Windows, there are AVC/H.264 software as well as hardware encoding options for both Intel Quick Sync Video (IQSV) and NVIDIA NVENC, whereas on Linux there is no H.264 software codec but only NVENC hardware encoding for NVIDIA GPUs. For Apple systems, the native GPU acceleration is used for H.264 rendering which is an essential part of the macOS platform.
For the emerging H.265 standard, there are only hardware encoding options selectable in DaVinci Resolve Studio on all platforms; i.e., HEVC software video encoding for exporting a project from the timeline is not available. And on Linux, DaVinci Resolve Studio users are faced with one more challenge: There is no native AAC rendering available under the Linux platform. To overcome some of these obstacles, the engineering team at MainConcept has developed the first-ever plug-in for DaVinci Resolve Studio that offers the same features on all platforms, including Linux, Windows and macOS on Intel x86 as well as Apple Silicon.
MainConcept enables HEVC Software Video & AAC encoding on Linux
The focus is often on hardware encoding when speed is a key requirement. Admittedly, there is no alternative software solution that compares to GPU-accelerated encoding when performance is your number one requirement. However, hardware encoders do not offer the same encoding quality as commercial software encoders. When quality is more important than or just as important as speed, MainConcept provides a ready-made solution.
Powered by the industry-leading MainConcept AVC/H.264 and HEVC/H.265 software video encoders, the Codec Plugin for DaVinci Resolve Studio combines high-quality timeline rendering with exciting performance so you can deliver amazing studio productions. It includes presets for the AVC software encoder for Sony XAVC, Panasonic P2 AVC Ultra, and other broadcast outputs.
When quality counts, you need MainConcept
For H.265, the Codec Plugin allows you to select from several 8-bit and 10-bit rendering profiles up to 8K resolution—all powered by the award-winning MainConcept HEVC software encoder. This is the same software encoder that topped the 2020 Moscow State University (MSU) Video Codecs Comparisons. The renowned codec benchmarking Graphics & Media Lab (GML) from MSU shows the MainConcept HEVC/H.265 video encoder as the industry leader. To access this encoding technology, you simply select one of the MainConcept MP4 (HEVC) presets that come with our Codec Plugin for DaVinci Resolve Studio.
Not just for Windows! MacOS and Linux capabilities are now available
Using the MainConcept HEVC/H.265 software video encoder is not restricted only to Windows. The MainConcept Codec Plugin for DaVinci Resolve and its various ready-to-use HEVC render profiles are also available for macOS platforms, regardless of whether you run an Intel CPU or the latest Apple M1 chipset. Of course, these profiles are also included in the MainConcept Codec Plugin running on Linux, where it provides yet another feature—the AAC format.
Available software AVC & HEVC video encoders for DaVinci Resolve Studio with and without MainConcept Plugin
| Codec | DaVinci Resolve Studio | MainConcept Codec Plugin |
| AVC Windows | Yes | Yes |
| AVC Linux | No | Yes |
| AVC macOS (x86 or M1) | Yes | Yes |
| HEVC Windows or Linux | No | Yes |
| HEVC macOS (x86 or M1) | Yes | Yes |
| AAC Linux | No | Yes |
AAC format availability
Currently, the AAC format is not available in DaVinci Resolve Studio on Linux. But, with the MainConcept Codec Plugin, this audio limitation is removed because you can now render your timeline to HEVC video accompanied by AAC in the widespread MP4 container on this platform as well.
Why use the MainConcept Codec Plugin for DaVinci Resolve Studio?
The MainConcept Codec Plugin for DaVinci Resolve Studio not only enables most professional camcorder presets and broadcast formats, such as AS-11 UK DPP, it also enables more software codecs on all operating systems for project rendering. And, when you choose a MainConcept product, you know that it was designed by our exceptionally experienced engineering team with the built-in quality, performance and reliability you know you can count on every day. Take it out for a test drive today and you will also be eligible for 60 days of access to our product documentation and exceptional support services!
In The Hub Ep 35 – Shaping the Sports Broadcasting Industry – w/ Wilfried Wuest
In this week’s episode, Neil is joined by Wilfried Wuest – Senior Director of Business Development at Sport.Media.Net. Wilfried’s career has seen him take on huge projects like the FIFA World Cup of 2006, ultimately cementing his knowledge and expertise in the sports broadcasting industry. Wilfried tells us how he got his start in broadcasting, how the sports broadcasting industry can be taking cues from the music industry, and what he envisions for the future of broadcasting.