 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. For this video, I'm going to be showing how to use Kaden Live to transcode MP4 files into DNxHD for using in DaVinci Resolve on Ubuntu. So let's firstly go into Kaden Live here. I'm gonna pop it over to the screen. I'm going to just add into my project bin a folder. I'm going to be using the Ethiopian folder. This is a few clips from an Ethiopian restaurant I shot last week or thereabouts. I'm going to add it to my project bin. It's gonna kind of hang here for a second because I'm using proxy clips. Those take a little bit to generate. You can see the pending jobs has finished populating. So it's generated proxy clips for everything in the folder. Now compared to DaVinci, Kaden Live is very easy to work with. It doesn't require DNxHD, so I can just pop one of those clips onto the timeline and it works out of the box. So this is 207lineHD and as you can see, I'm just gonna scrub through it here. It's a bureau shot of going from the base of this colorful serving dish onto some Ethiopian foods. So that was part of the video. So what you can do in Project Bin in Kaden is if you right click, you're going to have After Extract Audio Transcode. And these are transcode options for transcoding from MP4 into DNxHD. Now there's a lot of options here. If we start from the top, we have DNxHD, 1080i, 25 FPS, 120 MB slash S. Now the one you're going to do firstly is these are all 1080p clips. So starting with that, it's 25 FPS. So DNxHD, 1080p, 25 FPS. We have two options, 120, I think it's mega bits per second. It could be megabytes, no megabits, and small b, I think, or 100 and so. So I'm just gonna use 120 to try and serve a small bit of space. I'm just gonna see these are gonna end up bigger. So all I need to do is click that once. And this is nice. It's a graphical methodology. You can see one job is running. There we go. One job has stopped running. 2079. What I'm going to do now is drag over my file manager. And I'm doing this so we can look at the how much bigger this makes our file. So here's 2079.mp4. Here's it viewed in VLC. You can see it's a slow little panning shot up to a platter of Ethiopian food. Not super complicated. And that's a 14 megabyte file. And then we now have a new file, 2079.001.mov. This is the new generated file. And it's 98.4. Now I'd have to try to open this in VLC like this. And we can see it looks pretty much the same. But clearly our file has become bigger. Anyway, that's been transcoded. So what I want to do now is I'm going to jump into DaVinci, DaVinci Resolve. So we're gonna load this up here. I'm using DaVinci Resolve 18 on Ubuntu. This is the free version of the software. So I'm gonna drag this over and start, go back into this untitled project. So I'm going to go into the media pool tab and I have certain things set up here. So I'm gonna go into video, then I'm going to click down into raw. And now we should be able to see our Ethiopian clip folder. So double click here into Ethiopian. Now have a look at what's gone on. So these were, this whole folder was easy to read in CadenLive, but if I add the first clip in this numerically 2067, in DaVinci it's a bunch of black thumbnails and there's nothing to be seen in any of these clips. Now we can add this into our media pool and we're gonna see that we're not able to work with it. Now scrolling down through the media pool, I see one file here that is not all blacked out and this is our transcoded clip. We can see we have audio, we can see we have video and I'm gonna add that into our media pool. So that's the file we transcoded in Caden. Now you're gonna go into the edit tab of DaVinci and just in case you need further proof that without transcoding the file is completely useless, I can drag this into our editing timeline and there's nothing, there's neither audio nor is there a video, so I'm gonna delete that as that is not gonna be very useful to us and I'm gonna drag now the transcoded file using CadenLive and we can see that we have both an audio waveform and we have video. So that was for a one file process. What if you wanted to transcode this entire clip folder? So you're not going to be able to right click on the folder although that will work for toggling on and off proxying. What you can do instead is simply go from 2067 through to 2094, select them all, right click and then we're gonna go for DXNHD 1080p, 25 FPS and we're gonna use the 120, click on that and now we can see 26 jobs are processing in our manager and our job manager and therefore they're all going to be transcoding into DNxHD resulting in M0 MOV files and that's going to take a minute. So this is how if you want one graphical method there are others of transcoding your MP4 files into DNxHD that will work with DaVinci Resolve then you can just open your raw project being in CadenLive, transcode them there and now I'm just gonna drag over the folder. We can see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven so we're about seven clips in or eight clips in and then once this process is finished you can just go ahead and delete the original MP4 files or keep them backed up somewhere if you choose. Hope this video was useful if you're trying to use DaVinci Resolve on Ubuntu Linux and you need to transcode your clips. This is not the only way I've shown a previous way based on the terminal and there's probably more ways again but this is one way of skinning this particularly annoying cat for Ubuntu users of DaVinci. Thank you guys for watching. If you'd like to get more videos from me on this YouTube channel about CadenLive Ubuntu and other subjects please do consider subscribing.