Support AV1 Video Encoding and Decoding

Per what @Warren Heaton10841144 is saying. Work in ProRes, (LT or even Proxy perhaps), Export in ProRes, then simply drop that export into Shutter Encoder and create you AV1 very quickly.

https://www.shutterencoder.com/en/

@Verlxssener 

It's not uncommon for professional video editing software to focus on mezzanine (also called optimized) formats for source footage, edit settings, and export settings.  Then the high-quality, exported file is encoded to various delivery formats with a separate application or utility that supports a needed delivery format.

While it's very convenient to have one application support every possible format, it's most important the mezzanine formats be supported.

Illogical statement.  Clearly, adding that "simple function" would require scheduling engineering time like any other function.

However, setting priorities does not mean withholding a simple function for 8 years 🤡

Hmmm ... it hasn't been a priority. I'm not sure how that seems impossible to understand.

They have immense amounts of data on the processes each of their apps is used for. And they prioritize dev work schedules according to a mix of the heaviest user parts of each app and some over-view of where the app should be going.

That means there are both hard & fast reasons for doing some things, and soft reasons for doing others. At times, the 'soft' reasons will be chosen to override the hard data, but ... hard data clearly wins most of the time.

Both you and I have things we'd like to see where the hard data isn't supporting us. IF that data changes over time, as it does, then, or ... there is a change in long-range plans, we might suddenly find our ideas included.

Every individual, and accordingly every group of individuals, will make a different set of priority lists than another. That's being Human.

But it is still ridiculous that what is easy to implement at the current monthly price since 2018 was apparently not possible... xd

How we various users look at things, and how the staff of an NLE looks at things, are going to vary. Considerably. We all see things that we think we and others could benefit from as rather important. Which is natural and normal.

For me, it's some color things, an actual crawl in the EGP, a few things like that. For others, it's better ProRes RAW or AV1 or MKV ... whatever.

For the staff, looking at the entire user base, it's a very different 'view'. They have limited resources, will always have 'relatively' limited resources compared to our want lists. So they have to prioritize.

Thee & me are not going to agree with their prioritization list. But then, we don't see the user data they see. So some things that look stupid to use are actually sensible from their viewpoint.

And yes, I'm as frustrated about that as anyone, but apparently more of a realist than many others.

As AV1 is coming up, so to speak, I would be surprised if that isn't added sometime in the next two years. MKV ... maybe not, as that is realistically far more used as an archivist's tool than an editing tool.

The funniest thing is that AV1, unlike HEVC, is open source and even free... I also find the fact that it took them so long to get MKV support for the current price just **** xd

I just looked at this video from 2020 where Gary explains that encoding in AV1 is the main culprit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibXKKllz4xQ

I have no idea how much work has been done to speed this up, but given that this is an open source codec, there may be very little incentive for companies to pursue this. This could be the answer to your question.

loooolll

still no av1

wtf