Opus is your friend as long as the software you’re using supports it—besides, Apple’s AAC-LC can beat out Opus in low bitrates scenarios.
Whether you like it or not, AAC is still the standard.
[−]ErroneousBosh · 2026-07-02 Thu 07:55 UTC ·
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Editing with any playback-only format like AAC or H.264/5 is a pain.
Everyone I've seen complaining about slow choppy playback in DaVinci Resolve appears to be using long-GOP codecs which require a massive amount of processing to decode. It's something like playing out two seconds of video to access every single frame.
If you want flexibility without fully transcoding both audio and video, Opus is your friend
Whether you like it or not, AAC is still the standard.
Everyone I've seen complaining about slow choppy playback in DaVinci Resolve appears to be using long-GOP codecs which require a massive amount of processing to decode. It's something like playing out two seconds of video to access every single frame.