DJI Mavic 3 drone 5.1K D-Log mp4 video not working in Final Cut Pro 10.6.6/macOS Venture 13.4/Pro Video Formats 2.2.5

DJI Mavic 3 drone 5.1K D-Log mp4 video not working in Final Cut Pro 10.6.6 or macOS Venture 13.4 or Pro Video Formats 2.2.5. Updated all those (plus Motion and Compressor) this week and now 5.1K D-Log mp4 video will not play on my Mac. Just shows as black. I was editing video in FCP last weekend in same format with prior version of all those installed and all was fine.


Unexpectedly, if I record video in 4K in D-Log mp4 format it will display just fine. Also 5.1K mp4 in Normal (not D-Log) display correctly. Just 5.1K D-Log mp4 will not display anymore.


Only thing I was able to try downgrading was Pro Video Formats. I reinstalled Pro Video Formats 2.2.4 and that did not help.


Have of course also tried several restarts of my Mac. Any insights welcome.


MacBook Pro 15″, 11.6

Posted on May 27, 2023 8:55 PM

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May 28, 2023 4:54 AM in response to akces

Forgot to mention these videos are encoded in H.264. Did more experiments this morning using a mov file container and using H.265 encoding. H.265 does work for both mp4 and mov file containers. H.264 does not work for mp4 nor mov file containers. The issue is only occurring in for 5.1K D-Log video encoded with H.264. H.265 encoding is working for 5.1K D-Log video.


This just started happening since one or more of the above updates. I have hours of footage I have shot that were working and are now not usable. The good news I have found a third party transcoding app that can read those files and convert to a usable format for the moment. But clearly some software bug has been introduced in Apple's own software.

Aug 23, 2023 12:35 AM in response to akces

Yesterday I updated and now have the same problem as you described. So much work and timelines are involved. Simply transcoding is not acceptable because some of the clips in a timeline are so specifically edited. I calculated the time transcoding and partly re-edit those clips, it will take me like 50 days!


Anyone got another solution?

Aug 23, 2023 2:30 AM in response to ajpovvv

> Yesterday I updated and now have the same problem


Did you update to macOS 13.5.1 and Final Cut Pro 10.6.8?


Although QuickTime Player does not yet play my sample DJI_Mavic3_5k_H264_10Bit420 movies, FCP does.


And if I convert them to ProRes 422 HQ or H.264 or H.265 with ffmpeg, they work also in QuickTime Player:


ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v prores_ks -profile:v 3 -timecode 00:00:00:00 -c:a copy prores422hq.mov


ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx265 -crf 28 -preset medium -timecode 00:00:00:00 -tag:v hvc1 -c:a copy h265.mov


ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 23 -preset medium -timecode 00:00:00:00 -c:a copy h264.mov

DJI Mavic 3 drone 5.1K D-Log mp4 video not working in Final Cut Pro 10.6.6/macOS Venture 13.4/Pro Video Formats 2.2.5

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