Currently I'm trying to provide somebody else with my raw footage from a shoot which involved many interviews (h.264 1080p video, with a separate 16-bit wav audio track from the lavalier microphone). But rather than only give them the original unsynched files I thought I would also transcode the synched and tidied up answers from the interviewees as one DNxHD .mov file that they can edit on their Mac/FCP system.
I didn't transcode or use proxies for my edit, and I have the original synch clip saved as another version of my project. What I would like to do is import the earlier project (jugendhackt english interviews.kdenlive) into my current project (jugendhackt.kdenlive) and then right click on the imported project and choose >Transcode>DNxHD 1080p 25fps 185Mbs. But .kdenlive is not a supported filetype for transcoding.
So then I went back into project jugendhackt english interviews.kdenlive and decided to just render the timeline as DnxHD.
There's no DNxHD option as standard for rendering, so I created a new profile, DNxHD, with the extension mov and the same parameters (-s 1920x1080 -r 25 -vb 185000k -threads 2 -vcodec dnxhd -acodec copy) as the Transcode option.

Rendering sample sections of my timeline with these parameters produced very pixely results. (adding -mbd rd, for example, changed nothing) Is something wrong with my settings? or is there another way I could go about achieving this?

here's my finished video, by the way - it's about kids hacking with open data:
Young Rewired State in Berlin: Jugend Hackt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVSFyGU8gRk)
turn on captions if you don't speak German!

Hi sammuirhead!

The appropriate parameters for rendering DNxHD185M (Pal/25p) should be:

f=mov mlt_profile=atsc_1080p_25 vb=185M vcodec=dnxhd acodec=pcm_s16le ar=48000k ac=2

or if you want to make a plain copy of your audio codec this should work:

f=mov mlt_profile=atsc_1080p_25 vb=185M vcodec=dnxhd acodec=copy

Cheers
olive

Hi Olive, thanks for your help!
With both of these options I receive an error message: unsupported audio codec = pcm or unsupported audio codec = copy
do you know what might be causing this? rendering without audio works fine.

Hi sammuirhead!

In the Kdenlive settings (first page) you have to tick "Bypass codec verification", then it should work.

Cheers and good luck

olive

ok, thanks!

olive wrote:Hi sammuirhead!

The appropriate parameters for rendering DNxHD185M (Pal/25p) should be:

f=mov mlt_profile=atsc_1080p_25 vb=185M vcodec=dnxhd acodec=pcm_s16le ar=48000k ac=2

or if you want to make a plain copy of your audio codec this should work:

f=mov mlt_profile=atsc_1080p_25 vb=185M vcodec=dnxhd acodec=copy

Cheers
olive

How do you know these are the "appropriate" parameters?

Thanks.