Hemingways_Shotgun

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  • Sure. If for whatever reason you need to re-edit something that you didn’t shoot yourself and you don’t have access to the source files. I suppose that would be one reason to edit the MP4 directly. (so for example, if you’re re-editing someone’s youtube video to make a remix of it for Tiktok). But I don’t consider that to be “professional” editing.

    Professional editing is getting hired by a filmmaker (or creating video yourself) that you then edit into a completed work. And in those cases, I’d question why they’re either a) filming in a format like MP4 in the first place, or b) not making the LOG or ProRes source files available to their editor.


  • Video Editing (Free DaVinci Resolve): Free Resolve on Linux lacks native H.264/H.265 MP4 decoding due to licensing. It requires running FFmpeg scripts to transcode footage to ProRes/DNxHR before editing.

    If you’re editing MP4 directly, you’re an amateur who has no business editing anything. MP4 is a compressed finalized format suitable for distribution. It gives you virtually zero wiggle room for color correction, etc…

    There’s a reason professionals shoot log and shoot in a RAW format that is made specifically for editing. It’s only when the project is ready to be exported should you be going anywhere near MP4.