MPEG StreamClip Won’t Work For Much Longer For Mac Usersįor many years Mac users have come to depend on the great free app MPEG Streamclip and the Avid Codecs that you can find in your Avid account to create or convert video files to the preferred video file format for Pro Tools, which is Avid DNxHD. Instead, the recommendation is to convert incoming video files to Avid’s DNxHD format to put the minimum load on the host computer.
Even when the new Avid Video Engine was introduced with Pro Tools 11, the advice has been not to use heavily compressed video files using codecs like H264, which although they create small files, put a load onto the computer that can cause sync and reliability issues.
