How to export DVX codec on Mac

[Hagam_it]

Hello everyone, I've designed some LED video panels for a client in After Effects, but their supplier specifications ask for a .MOV video with DVX codec. I honestly haven't heard of DivX in 15-20 years and thought the format was dead...

A quick search led me to the official www.divx.com website, that provides a free app to convert video files into DVX format. The installer for the app however is not signed and I don't feel comfortable bypassing Mac OS security (also on Trustpilot it's mentioned that the Windows installer too gets flagged as malware). All in all the website is pretty sketchy.

I found another alternative in https://resolume.com which provide a free converter, and while they look like a serious and professional developer, the converter is bundled with their other applications that I'd rather not install on my work machine.

Does anyone know of a free and safe way to encode or convert into DVX in 2025? Thank you so much!

[Hagam_it]

I can't seem to edit the OP, so I'm adding something here: I mistakenly read DXV as DVX on Resolume website, but apparently they're entirely different video codecs. However my client's specifications ask for DVX codec, so I appear to be stuck... any help would be appreciated!

[sskaz]

Poking around, I see two options depending on how nerdy you want to be 🙂 In either case, download Resolume Alley from their download page — scroll to the very bottom and look for the “Alley downloads” dropdown; ignore all the other products they shove in your face first.

Now, the easy/less nerdy way, you can either install their whole Alley package using Apple’s installer, which installs two things:

1. Resolume Alley.app in /Applications
2. Their 4 codecs into '/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore/Resolume DXV'

Or get nerdy and use something like Suspcious Package to open the installer package and pull out just the codecs, and move them into the same MediaCore path.

Then, no matter which method you use, you can render directly out of AE/Premiere/Media Encoder into their DVX format. And trash the Alley app if you don’t want it—it won’t affect their codecs in the MediaCore directory.

(If you want to get extra nerdy, ffmpeg seems to support dxv encode (codec support depends on how you got ffmpeg—I use homebrew), but it’s not clear what version of DVX it supports (are there versions? I see people referencing versions 2 and 3 mostly) and you’re on your own if you need to tweak encoding options this way.)