
watch a dir for new/changed files) or an app that I can run that takes a directory full of mp4/avi/etc and converts them to DNxHD MXF files? If so, tutorials on how to use it (possibly on different platforms if it runs on windows/linux/mac)? with that in mind, is there anything that can batch process files either automatically (e.g. plenty of horsepower) that could do this menial chore for me. I even have a linux box (8 core AMD cpu, 32GB RAM. I was able to make that work, although it does require me to run it on the command line and thankfully I am a programmer by day and am well versed in this sort of thing, but it seems to me there should be some way to set up a directory watcher or something that can notice new files and start transcoding them. So far it seems my best (only?) option is FFMPEG. Would be great to point it at a couple directories and have it transcode. It is a shame that Davinci Resolve cant transcode as part of the work flow. Transcoding seems to be the solution, although I seem to find all these knock off video converter apps via Google, which I actually bought one once and lost the license for and well I dont want to go back to that. Until then, though, I still need a way to import various video formats (usually MP4 formats in different containers like mkv, avi, mov, mp4) into Davinci Resolve 12.5. My dream is to have a BM Ursa Mini one day, or even the pocket cinema for HD usage, to shoot CinemaDNG RAW and work with that. I realize converting highly compressed mp4 to DNxHD, only to then reencode it to something similar is really doing the video a disservice, but most DSLRs, handy cams, phone cameras, and even higher end ones like Canon C100 and such seem to encode in these more compressed formats. I run on a Windows machine, and especially with Quicktime/ProRes no longer being supported on Windows, it seems like DNxHD is our best option short of RAW, to edit video in. So apparently DNxHR has been out a while even though I am still fairly new to DNxHD.
