What to do if DaVinci Resolve doesn’t recognize the audio from your Sony Alpha A7S camera? No worry, this post will give you some hints on this issue. It displays a workaround to make DaVinci Resolve work with Sony Alpha A7S XAVC S MP4 files by transcoding these files to DNxHD/ProRes MOV format, which DaVinci Resolve will recognize and handle well.
No audio for Sony Alpha A7S XAVC S in DaVinci Resolve 11 lite?
“Hi, there, I’m running into a trouble that DaVinci Resolve 11 lite won’t recognize the audio from my Sony Alpha A7S XAVC S footage. The Sony A7s records in XAVC-S mode using LPCM 2-Channel (48 kHz 16 bit) audio. Does anyone have the same problem? It’s very disappointing. Hoping for a helpful solution. Please help.”
It’s probably because DaVinci Resolve and many other editing programs can only handle 48kHz PCM audio, like WAV files. Not LPCM audio. To be able to solve no audio issue between Sony Alpha A7S XAVC S and DaVinci Resolve, we would recommend converting Sony A7S XAVC S MP4 files to a format that is fully compatible with Resolve, such as Apple ProRes or DNxHD encoded MOV format, which DaVinci Resolve will recognize and handle well. This requires third party software like HD Video Converter.
You can download a demo version (for both, PC and Mac) to have a try.
This converter is easy to use and supports many different formats. Picture quality is very good for HD conversions. It will do what you want at a reasonable price.
Sony Alpha A7S 4K XAVC-S and Davinci Resolve workflow – how to convert Sony Alpha A7S 4K XAVC-S MP4 video to Davinci Resolve editable format?
The steps:
Step 1: Start up HD Video Converter as a Sony Alpha A7S XAVC S Converter for DaVinci Resolve. When its main interface pops up, click ‘Add File’ to input your source media.
Step 2: Choose output format for DaVinci Resolve
To convert Sony Alpha A7S XAVC S video to DNxHD for DaVinci Resolve, you can from ‘Profile’ list, select ‘Avid DNxHD (*.mov)’ as output format under ‘Avid Media Composer’ column.
To encode Sony Alpha A7S XAVC S video to ProRes 422 for DaVinci Resolve, you can choose ‘Final Cut Pro’ > ‘Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)’ as target format.
Important: If you’ve loaded a number of video clips to do batch conversion, please do remember ticking off ‘Apply to All’ option before you start.
Step 3: Custom video and audio settings
If necessary, you can click ‘Settings’ button and go to ‘Profiles Settings’ panel to modify video and audio settings like video encoder, resolution, video bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio encoder, sample rate, audio bit rate, and audio channels. 3D settings are also available.
Step 4: Start Sony Alpha A7S XAVC S video to DNxHD/ProRes MOV Conversion
When ready, click ‘Convert’ to start format conversion. As soon as the conversion is complete, you can click ‘Open Folder’ button to get the exported MOV files for use in DaVinci Resolve with optimum performance.
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