[blensor]

kdenlive to me is like gimp. I launch it everytime I want to do something quickly, without really thinking about what tool to use.

With Davinci Resolve I have to intentionally plan on making a video to be willing to use it, because it's much heavier, doesn't support the audio in most of the source videos I am using, so I have to convert that first, and does a lot more than what I usually need.

[ErroneousBosh]

> doesn't support the audio in most of the source videos I am using

What codecs are you using, and what's the source?

[blensor]

AAC and mostly recordings of VR games I have to first convert the audio track to MP3 for Davinci Resolve to support it.

[ErroneousBosh]

If you're recording the games why don't you just record them in a better codec?

AAC is pretty horrible quality. Just use PCM, the size difference is nothing compared to the size of the video stream.

[blensor]

That is the onboard recording feature of the Meta Quest, it does have a way to change the video codec but the audio codec is fixed.

I'd also argue that most off the shelf stuff that records videos in any form uses AAC as a default simply because it's ubiquitous and thus has great cross compatibility.

[ErroneousBosh]

Well, I don't know, nothing really seems to support AAC. I've yet to find anything other than ffmpeg that can read it.

[MrDrMcCoy]

Why not convert to PCM to avoid quality degradation?

[blensor]

It's mostly for youtube shorts that don't get a ton of views in the first place, so I am going for a quick and easy fix that keeps the file size mostly the same.

But you are of course right, if I would go for a professional setup I would not recompress it