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It does not support normal mp4 (H.264 and aac) files on Linux.

A Studio license will enable H.264 support, but AAC is still a no-go on Linux.

Only the free version does not, but of course in that case you can export to an intermediate master and then encode to whatever you like.

No, even if you pay you still have to transcode before importing and after exporting.