Hello all! First time posting, happy to be here!

The company I work for has accepted my proposal to move to VMix for all of our capture of video in-house. One thing that has been expressed to me above all else is that the quality can't go down from recording to an SxS card. After a few tests, MPEG2/.mpg within the FFMPEG menu of the multicorder worked great when compared to our cards, and had an acceptable file size. Unfortunately however, FCPX, our normal suite of choice, can't read MPEG2/.mpg. It can absolutely read MPEG2/.MOV however. I tested this by opening one of the .mpg files I made in Quicktime and saving it (not exporting it). It created an identical file size and data rate .MOV I could use in FCPX.

I was wondering, since I don't think I had the Quicktime codec installed on the machine I tested the VMix free trial on, is that the reason that the Multicorder does not let you choose anything other than a .mpg or .ts file in the MPEG codec in FFMPEG? I would consider using another codec if the size and quality was the same, but since I hadn't tested any others I was wondering if installing additional codecs would be picked up by the Vmix multicorder in FFMPEG.

Thank you so much everyone! I appreciate any insight you might be able to share!