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Conforming DSLR and other material
Hi,
We installed DaVinci on the Mac a couple of days ago and have been putting it through it’s paces since. I am thoroughly impressed by the intuitiveness and speed of operation to achieve sophisticated grading effects.One of the first things we tried was to conform an EDL sent from FCP. It was an EDL of clips from a CANON DSLR. One of the ‘joys’ of this material is that there is no embedded Reel id and each clip starts from 00:00:00:00 timecode, creating problems with DaVinci being able to identify the right clip. I have read several solutions on this forum but not this one, which seems to me the simplest and easiest.
Export the EDL from FCP with File Names in the comments.
In DaVinci Config | Settings tab enable the option ‘Extract Reel Names from EDL comments‘
In the Timeline Conform options tick ‘Assist using clip names from the:‘
select ‘Source Clip file pathname‘
in ‘Pattern‘ type in exactly this without the single quotes ‘*/%R*‘ That’s star slash percent R star
This tells DaVinci to use the clip’s file name and only the clip’s file name as the reel ID.
Go back to the Browse tab and either refresh your folder of media or bring it back into the Media Pool anew.This will work with any material which you can define as one clip per reel, but not multiple clips for one reel.
Now your EDL import should work correctly.
I hope this helps somebody.
Cheers
Toby
Colourist | Editor | Post-Production Consultant — 23 years at the post-production coalface, and still loving it.
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Nice. Thanks for the tip!
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Import the 5D footage into Final Cut via Log and Transfer with the Canon plug-in. It will add time code and convert to ProRes. 5DtoRGB also does this.
cheers,
j
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I must be stupid or something no matter what i try no edl is ever working for me.
I always get all clips that look cut up but are always x’ed out.
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Have you tried switching EDL Notes from Clip Names to File Names? Since file names is what Resolve will be looking for with the */%R.* tag
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This is very very frustrating!
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Hi
I notice from your screenshot that you have Embedding in Source clip file selected, the pattern will only work when selecting ‘Source Clip File Pathname’.
After changing this you need to Refresh the folder that contains your media in the Media Storage window, the list of clips in the Clip Details window will update, here the Reel No should be the file name without any extension and should match the Reel column entry in your EDL display in the Conform window, (see next paragraph) (this is not case specific so MVI_7858-ProResHQ will be treated the same as MVI_7858-PRORESHQ.) This will prove that DaVinci is extracting the Reel number from the clip correctly.
Next the EDL has to reflect the correct clip names not just ‘AX’. As Vladimir says use File Names in your comments in FCP EDL export settings not Clip Names, also check the setting on the Config page is extracting the file name from the EDL comment. If this doesn’t work I suggest turning off Video Levels, Audio Levels and Transitions on the FCP EDL export page, I don’t know whether these may confuse DaVinci as they are non-standard for a CMX 3600 list.
Toby
Colourist | Editor | Post-Production Consultant — 23 years at the post-production coalface, and still loving it.
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I’m not getting this to work. At all.. You mention I should see the filename without the extension (.mov).. I see the .mov extension here. I don’t understand what I should adjust in the Config page in order to get rid of that.
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Oops.. Forgot to add the screenshot of the settings.
Tell me, is there something wrong in this EDL export? If so, it might prove why I’m not getting this to work.
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Funny thing is – this setting, “Embedding in source clip file” worked for me.. .
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Generic edits has always worked best for me.
Chris Hall
Colorist – Basher Films
Pasadena, CA
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