Popular video editing app brings support for Samsung's APV codec

Samsung released its first in-house professional-grade video codec, Advanced Professional Video (APV), last year. The company is expected to bring it to its phones early next year. Ahead of the launch of the Galaxy S26, popular video editing app DaVinci Resolve has already begun supporting APV, suggesting that the codec could gain widespread adoption in the coming years.

The new version (20.2) of the DaVinci Resolve app now supports the APV codec developed by Samsung. This means editors can encode videos in the APV format, which was designed to offer professional-grade video creation and post-production. Samsung claims that APV provides quality comparable to other pro-grade video codecs while consuming 20% less storage space.

Due to the codec's advantages, Google added support for APV in Android 16's stock version. So, it will be supported by all phones and tablets running Android 16, unless it was specifically blocked by a smartphone maker. The codec supports 2K, 4K, and 8K resolutions at various frame rates and in HDR10 and HDR10+ high dynamic rance (HDR) formats.

APV supports auxiliary video information, including alpha, depth, and preview. It also offers frame tilting for immersive content like XR and supports parallel decoding and encoding. The codec accommodates various chroma sub-sampling formats, bit depths, and preview without compromising video quality.

Samsung is reportedly planning to support APV video recording on the Galaxy S26. This means users can record high-quality APV videos directly on their smartphone and then edit them on compatible devices like phones, tablets, laptops, or PCs using apps such as DaVinci Resolve.

This feature could position the Galaxy S26 as one of the most advanced phones for video recording and editing. APV is supported by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, and it is expected that Samsung's in-house Exynos 2600 chip could support the format on the hardware level.