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problem with canon 5d workflow with Resolve
Hi i’m working with new resolve 8.1 ( linux system)
I have no problems importing the media and working with an XML from FCP.
the thing is that after me there’s a flame working who needs to recomform that media. For that they need that the render and the XML has to match on filename, or reelname ( not TC because canon 5d doesn’t has tc) and i can’t force both the filenames or reelnames on my render…I’ve seen that threre’s a new opction ” render clips with unique Filename” that add as a prefix the name of the clip but it still has the event number and the video track…
Now I’m focused on getting the reel name, but can’t manage to force the reel name to match the original file name…Somebody has had the same problem, or has been able to put the correct filename or reelname??
Thanks
Diana
( I also had Resolve for Mac!) -
10 Replies
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Hi,
Make sure ‘Use Prefix, suffix, No.of Digits from Source’ is selected on the render page, and set the ‘Source Directory Preserve Level’ to 1 (depending on the folder structure) and Render ‘Source’.
That should be all you need. Try it out on one shot and check if you need another directory level.Hope that helps.
Ned
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thanks!!1
we’re trying it!!!!!! -
You can force the reel name to be the file name by using the format string on the Configuration page to extract the file name from path name, using “assist using…”. This is explained in the user manual, but what’s not really made clear is that doing this affects everything you put into the media pool (even if it’s already there). Since it’s identified as the page as being a “conform assist” function, it’s not obvious that what it actually does is control the reel number that’s assigned to clips in the Media Pool. Enabling it and creating a proper expression in the string will do what you want.
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hi, Diana Cuyàs
You can try force the reel name to be the file name on the Configuration page to, using Pattern: */%R.*
sorry for my bad English
thanks
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Thanks Mike and Wayne!!!
I’ve been able to get the function that I need this afternoon!!
thank u very much!!!
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For 5D work I use EDL with the source file names listed in comments. In resolve I check ‘extract reel names from EDL comments’ and ‘use reel number from source clip file pathname.’ The path extraction to get the file name as reel is */%R.*
Render in source mode ensuring that the renders have the same file name as the source files then relink in the NLE or conform the EDL in the finishing suite.
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hi,
Small problem, maybe somebody has a solution?
I have ProRes .mov files whose file names = reel names.
I import them into Resolve (with the “Extract reel name from EDL” config option), but when I import the EDL from Avid it ignores the comment:
003 LE__0065 V C 18:11:23:18 18:11:25:10 01:00:04:02 01:00:05:19
* SOURCE FILE: LE__0065_01This gives me “LE__0065” as reel name in the Resolve session, not LE__0065_01
If I export from Avid another EDL with clip names:
003 LE__0065 V C 18:11:23:18 18:11:25:10 01:00:04:02 01:00:05:19
* FROM CLIP NAME: ST:HOUSEWATCH2 T1
* SOURCE FILE: LE__0065_01then Resolves does fetch “ST:HOUSEWATCH2 T1” as the reel name, but I wanted “source file” (LE__0065_01), not “clip name”.
Anyone managed to have resolve read the “SOURCE FILE” comment from an EDL?
David
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When that option is turned on, it will read the reel number from:
* FROM CLIP NAME:
comment
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[David Steiner] ”
I import them into Resolve (with the “Extract reel name from EDL” config option), but when I import the EDL from Avid it ignores the comment:003 LE__0065 V C 18:11:23:18 18:11:25:10 01:00:04:02 01:00:05:19
* SOURCE FILE: LE__0065_01″I’ve always just kept the file name and the clip name the same in Avid. Because your clip name is different you could modify the EDL changeing ‘SOURCE FILE’ to ‘FROM CLIP NAME’. Try opening the Avid EDL in TextEdit and use ‘Find and Replace’ to automatically change all the instances of ‘* SOURCE FILE:’ to ‘* FROM CLIP NAME:’ then save and make sure the file extension is still .EDL
Or try an EDL template in EDL manager that has longer reel names – try ‘file 16’ or ‘file 32’ or I think there’s a RED EDL template on the avid site somewhere that I’ve used before. It makes a CMX3600 list but has up to 16 characters in the reel column.
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I can’t keep “clip name = source file” because my master clips are stereoscopic so I have two sources per clip…
“LE” is “Left Eye”
As for your “replace” solution, I’m sure it works, thanks.
I used a less general solution which works too in this case: I had Resolve ignore the “_01” in the source file names (“%R_01.mov” in “set reel name”) so they correspond to the 8-chr limited ones in the EDL – ignoring comments.
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