• Adobe Premiere Pro

  How to replace clips with Speed/Duration changes with rendered versions?

  Posted by Charlie Herrick on January 13, 2019 at 5:58 pm

  I am attempting a round-trip workflow with Davinci Resolve.
  The process I’m following is this: export XML file from Premiere, import into Resolve for color grading. Export from Resolve as individual clips, replace clips in Premiere with color graded clips.

  The problem: Resolve doesn’t recognize the Speed/Duration changes I made in Premiere. Therefore, when I export the clips out from Resolve and import back into Premiere, they will be the wrong speed, and the edit points will be off.

  My solution was to render each of the time-altered clips in Adobe Media Encoder, import, and replace each one in the timeline.
  HOWEVER:
  When I replace the clip it still has the Speed/Duration change applied, so it of course alters the already-rendered clip. I can remove the S/D change and then replace it, but the edit points don’t match up.
  It would be immensely time-consuming to go through and have to manually match up my edit points for each and every clip—there has to be a better way! ????

  John Heiser replied 7 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  January 14, 2019 at 6:48 am

  Either that excellent advice…or what I ask all clients to do. Export a full resolution TEXTLESS version of their project, so that I can chop sections from it that prove troublesome. Such as speed changes, stills in the timeline, plugins specific to the NLE.

  Shane
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  Charlie Herrick

  January 15, 2019 at 9:16 pm

  Thanks for the advice! That makes perfect sense. Unfortunately it’s still a rather laborious process, but at least it’s accurate. I’m finding I still have to copy the original clip to a blank track, remove the time-alteration effect, remove any transitions (so they don’t render—I want to keep things editable) and extend the in/out points of the clip to start/end of the actual footage, and then adjust the in/out points to match the original clip—or else when I replace it, the new clip will start where the old footage started—as opposed to where the cut was made, if that makes sense?
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  John Heiser

  January 16, 2019 at 5:27 pm

  Right-click on your clip and choose Render and Replace. Pick a good destination for the rendered file, pick the codec you like, and click OK. Now your speed changes will be baked in and you can send that clip to Resolve.

  John Heiser
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