How to export DVX codec on Mac

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.)