Export animation as a video for editing later I have simple 10 sec animation and I want to render it into a video file for future video editing. I've used FFmpeg video format option in Blender with MPEG-4 container, H.264 codec and Lossless output quality, but generated mp4 cannot be opened in Quicktime (I use mac os), only in VLC. More importantly, I cannot open it in DaVinci Resolve (it is not recognised).
What is the best format to use, so that it won't noticeably worsen the quality and can be easily used for editing? Are AVI Raw or AVI JPEG good options?
For editing purposes, it's fairly common to use a sequence of images files, not a video file. Most editing software support them (DaVinci Resolve definitively do), and you don't have to struggle with codecs, bitrate or whatever.
In your output settings, just select a picture file format. Png is great if you have a transparent background. Lossless Jpeg is great if you've got a solid background.
There are other benefits with files sequences ; ie., you can pause the render between two frames and relaunch it later ; or render it with multiple computers (ie. a renderfarm).