Recorded some insignificant moments of your life and the lives of those around you with your Panasonic Lumix S9 and want to do a little movie with H.265 files in DaVinci Resolve 19 for your school or work project? When you tried to do it, you may encounter problems like these:
Q1: Lumix S9 H.265 MOV files in DaVinci Resolve 19
"I am trying to import Panasonic Lumix S9 4K MOV files into DaVinci Resolve 19, with no joy. If I change the file extension to .MP4, DaVinci Resolve can import the video, but no audio. Can anyone advise on how I can import Lumix S9 files successfully, with both video and audio?"
Q2: DaVinci Resolve 19 does not open Lumix S9 MP4 files correctly
"I found it very convenient to be able to transfer the recorded files over from the Lumix S9 SD media to my computer, however, getting the resulting MP4 files into DaVinci Resolve 19proved to be a challenging experience."
Users who want to edit Panasonic Lumix S9 videos with DaVinci Resolve 19 usually run into various issues. This is due to that MOv and MP4 videos, which are standard definition H.265/HEVC video, are very hard to deal with during video editing. To work with Lumix S9 files in DaVinci Resolve 19, 17, 16, 15 without problems, the easy workaround is to convert H.265 to a more editing-friendly format, such a DaVinic Resolve's Apple ProRes 422, DNxHD, etc. Along with some help from a third-party program like Acrok Video Converter Ultimate, you can easily achieve your goal smoothly.
The Acrok tool features high efficiency and seamless conversion. By running it, there's no need to set the codec by yourself: the program has three optimized presets for DaVinci Resolve. Below are the steps of converting Lumix S9 H.265 files to Apple ProRes for editing in DaVinic Resolve 19 smoothly.
Free download H.265 to DaVinci Resolve Converter trial version:
How to convert and import Lumix S9 files to DaVinci Resolve 19
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Add videos
After downloading this Panasonic 4K video converter, install and run it. And then import your Lumix S9 H.265 files to the program in one of two ways:
1. Directly drag and drop one or more Lumix S9 H.265 files to this H.265 video converter.
2. Click "Add File" icon to load Lumix S9 4K MOV and MP4 files to this program.
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Choose the optimized preset for DaVinci Resolve 19
The program has already optimized the video settings for DaVinci Resolve 19. You can select Apple ProRes 422 MOV from "Editing Software" as the output format. The output videos will keep the original quality of Lumix S9 files video and seamlessly fit DaVinci Resolve 19.
Tip: If you want to set some parameters for the output profile, you could click the "Settings" button to set the output bitrate, encode, frame rate, resolution, sample rate, channels, etc.
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Start Lumix S9 to DaVinci Resolve conversion
When the former steps finished, you can press "Convert" button to start rewrapping Lumix S9 H.265 MOV and H.265 MP4 files to DaVinci Resolve 19 supported video format. Once the conversion process is done, click "Open" button to get the generated files.
After the conversion, you can import the Lumix S9 videos to DaVinci Resolve (the latest DaVinci Resolve 19 included) for further editing smoothly.