Conforming DSLR and other material

[Vladimir Kucherov]

Ola, are you talking about the extention in the media pool or your EDL?

In the media pool, the pattern */%R.* should cut off the .mov since it reads the name until the “.”

[Ola Haldor voll]

Ah that’s what I’ve been missing? A little DOT ? I’ll try that again when I get back to the office. Gonna go out on location to rig 5 cameras and a mobile OB setup now.. Oh the joy of having multiple hats. At least I’m not growing roots in the office 🙂

[Toby Risk]

Hi Ola
Apologies, indeed the .mov is there in the Clip Details section and this does work for me. If you say Embedded in Source Clip has worked, then we may be talking about a different issue here.

I have attached screenshots of all the settings, including, FCP EDL export, the resulting EDL, the Config settings, the Browse|Clip Details window and the Conform window with the EDL showing the same Reel names as the Clip Details.

On each event the EDL shows a comment
* PROBLEM WITH EDIT: CLIP HAD NO REEL NAME.
This is perfectly normal and symptomatic of the Canon DSLR footage, as is all events having AX in the reel column, if the events have something akin to a correct reel number and you don’t have this comment, then you have got real Reel numbers and need a different combination of settings in DaVinci.

Let me know how you get on.

Toby

here’s the link to the screen shots
1596_davinciconform.zip

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[Ola Haldor voll]

Wow, that was.. um.. Embarrassing. I just needed that DOT between R and *
That solved the problem completely.

[Christopher Adams]

Still editors esp. ones in primere that can edit h.264 directly.. what is your workflow when you get the clips? “they wont’ have any reel name and maybe not timecode. This is just a royal pain in the ass! I fumbled with QTchange and finally got close but.. still. as we get more and more indie productions this will be more and more an issue.

[Vladimir Kucherov]

Don’t know how it works in Premiere, but worst case scenario is export the full project and use scene detector to split it up in Vinci.

[Christopher Adams]

It would be lovely if i could do that all the time. but question.. 1. how do they reconstruct the edit on the way back? there are no handles to use? all you have is the final footage pieces in one long mov file once cut up… they won’t be able to re-insert transitions? etc.. lest i’m forgetting something?

[Vladimir Kucherov]

Well they would essentially get one long timeline back yes. Bad if they have dissolves. The way to deal with dissolves in this case would be to undo them in the timeline (giving the handles necessary to re-create them) and then redo them upon reassembly. Pain in the ass, sure.

But you should be able to get reels going in theory even without timecode, no? I assume that the filename of each piece of media is unique, correct? If you export an EDL with reel names taken from file names, and in Resolve assign the */R%.* pattern to reel name extraction, your EDL reels and file reels should align, and even if each of them starts on TC 00:00:00:00 you should be fine.

[Christopher Adams]

True enough.. I think.. I got it mostly working.. Though i had insert metadata into the clips they had no reel name.. etc..

[Tristan Kneschke]

Just an FYI people make sure you go to Prores. Might sound like a no-brainer but I had someone use Apple Motion Jpeg for some reason I cannot understand and it was not working due to this.