Samsung NX500 Video Conversion

I have no first hand experience with this camera. According to the search I did, the recording codec it uses is H.265, which isn't currently supported FCP X or by any Mac application that I know of. Open a clip in MediaInfo or VideoSpec and check what codec is reported. MP4 is a container, and while Final Cut can import (and export) most MP4s, it all depends on the codec.

What does the user manual say about editing?

Russ

Try the Samsung forums. And if you find anything interesting, please post back.

Perhaps David Brewer, a contributor to these boards, will see this thread and comment. He has occasionally updated us about what was going on with the adoption of this codec.

Russ

The NX500 uses the same h.265 codec that is used by the Samsung NX-1 which I recently purchased. Neither Mac OS X or Windows is yet able to natively play back this codec. There is an editor (Power Director 13 from Cyberlink) running under Windows only that will import and edit the H.265 codec. However, playback in Windows on my fully maxed out Mac pro (Late 2013) is not very good and therefore it is difficult to precisely edit using PD13. I have found the best solution to edit in Final Cut Pro X is to convert the H. 265 clips into Apple Pro Res 422 using the free and excellent Rocky Mountain Video Converter. You can find this by Googling it. This app makes full use of all cores on my Late 2013 Mac Pro and produces an excellent transcoding to Pro Res 422 at very high speed.

Tom

Russ H wrote:

…H.265, which isn't currently supported FCP X or by any Mac application that I know of.…

Handbrake in its latest incarnation supports h.265…

… based upon ffmpg = not-really-a-110%-stable-nor-reliable ... 😉

BUt for brave souls something to play with ................

@Karsten:

Thanks for the Handbrake info !

@ Designs4Times:

I was able to convert the NX500 h.265 files easaly with " Bigasoft Total Video Converter " , lets hope that Apple on this matter gets a little bit faster to update.

Samsung products often don't match with Apple products, thats pitty , it might lead,for random brand user,s to the choise to leave this brand for that reason...

good luck with your files !

By the way, this NX500 is a super good camera !

Pavtube now supports H.265 decoding and iMedia Converter for Mac can do perfect NX500 Video Conversion on Mac. Hope it helps.

AAccording to the Pavtube web site this seems to be incorrect. The Windows version does; the Mac version does not. Pavtube generally does most things Mac-related poorly.

in case I understood this article correctly, h265 seems to be the "new bag of hurt'":

http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2015/07/new-patent-pool-wants-share-of-revenue-fr om-content-owners.html

two consortiums/tia claiming patents, licence fees, etc etc ... ? OMG ...

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You read it right...