Gotcha! Thank you for such a detailed answer!
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Yes, as others have mentioned there’s ER Media Toolkit.
There’s also Shutter Encoder and a few others.
Steinberg themselves recommend:
Apple Compressor
Cinemartin Cinec
Davinci Resolve
VLC Player
XMedia Recode
Most of these are free apps.
See: https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-us/articles/115000808250-Video-support-in-Steinberg-products
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Hi @MattiasNYC. I use Xmedia recode for all my video convertions but don’t change the video settings. I just reconvert using a the same settings on another software (xmedia) . The only thing I change are the key frames interval . Usually the standart is 300 frames but Nuendo/Cubase don’t read the videos fast enough and have problems(takes to long to find a specific point on the video). Decreasing the keyframe interval to 5 frames, makes de H264 videos as fast as Dnx or Pro res…and more accurate too. Try it. Just converting the problematic video(to the same settings,codec,audio format) is enough to N13 to work well. So the problem is not the size/ratio of the video. I agree with Stingray…N13 should read the video format no matter what software/hardware created it. If it worked with all previous versions, than why not with this new one?
I routinely use MOV videos with stereo PCM audio tracks in Davinci Resolve without a problem, I prefer to use stereo PCM rather than AAC because the audio quality is better and specifically both Youtube and a mastering engineer on Gearspace report better audio quality for music videos uploaded to Youtube if the uploaded video has stereo 24bit 44.1 sample rate audio tracks. It makes sense that uncompressed audio going through a single Youtube lossy compression step is better than going from AAC to another lossy compression step. Also, it’s good to have another full res audio backup as part of the video.
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Maybe this will help?
In a Cubase thread reporting problems with importing video files to Cubase 13 (but not Cubase 12) a change to Windows priorities fixed the problem. Here’s a link to the “How To” Does Cubase 13 not support MP4 or MOV video files? - #52 by birdinlay
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One last comment, I use Sagi’s ER Media Pro Toolkit and find it very useful!
And Sagi is great!. I ran into a problem using his program to extract audio from my Panasonic GH6 camera MOV video because the PCM audio was in non-standard BIG Endian format. He came up with a program fix within 1-2 days. Thanks Sagi!!
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The IPB 10bit Gop encoding can be tough on Gpu or Cpu as P or predictive frames and B or Bidirectional frames are virtual and has to be constructed on the fly. Currently neither Nvidia nor Intel support hardware encoding or decoding. Apple M series does and that takes away the load off from software.
The lightest codec is DV SD and should work fine even on a 12 years old system…