If your media complies to all of the following specs, Eddie will import it directly without transcoding and may it faster to get going in Eddie:
resolution is equal to less than HD
file size is less than 5GB
audio/video codec is non-proprietary, like h265
braw, r3d, sony, canon are typically proprietary codecs and need to be transcoded
does not contain multi-track audio
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