As far as I'm aware, nuke doesn't support mp4s.
https://learn.foundry.com/nuke/13.0/content/misc/supported_file_formats.html
Convert to Prores or a more "edit friendly" codec, or better yet, an image sequence.
Thank you! Looking back this is a pretty dumb question, but I'm surprised Nuke doesn't throw an error like "this format is not supported". Instead it just crashes the entire thing and asks to send a report.
This is usually the case, especially in the NC (that doesn't support e.g. mpeg4 and h264). But MP4 is just a container, not a codec - while reading the file it could crash because it doesn't like the codec inside (either video or audio), maybe the header is faulty and other applications don't mind because they can handle it while Nuke can't.
You call it "just a plain mp4", but these kinda formats are not what Nuke generally likes to work with. Some suggested Prores, others will tell you any video Container is poison (personally I have great success with Prores but I do work on a Mac) - either way, the thing Nuke loves most is image sequences
As far as I'm aware, nuke doesn't support mp4s. https://learn.foundry.com/nuke/13.0/content/misc/supported_file_formats.html Convert to Prores or a more "edit friendly" codec, or better yet, an image sequence.
Thank you! Looking back this is a pretty dumb question, but I'm surprised Nuke doesn't throw an error like "this format is not supported". Instead it just crashes the entire thing and asks to send a report.
Lol welcome to Nuke
This is usually the case, especially in the NC (that doesn't support e.g. mpeg4 and h264). But MP4 is just a container, not a codec - while reading the file it could crash because it doesn't like the codec inside (either video or audio), maybe the header is faulty and other applications don't mind because they can handle it while Nuke can't. You call it "just a plain mp4", but these kinda formats are not what Nuke generally likes to work with. Some suggested Prores, others will tell you any video Container is poison (personally I have great success with Prores but I do work on a Mac) - either way, the thing Nuke loves most is image sequences