Davinci for dailies?

[Sascha Haber]

Dont hate me for saying but you dont want to do this.
You want Storm.
Its the one and only solution I was hoping for for years.
Prores files, dnxHD , all metadata preserved, multilayer timeline, and so on..
https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/storm/
Give it a try as long as its free.
I just finished a short movie with a Storm-FCP-DaVinci-FCP workflow and it was a breeze.

A slice of color…

DaVinci 7.1 OSX 10.6.6
Dual Xeon 2,4 RAM 24 GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
GTX 285 / GT 120
Extreme 3D+ WAVE

[Blase Theodore]

Yeah but it doesn’t do mxf, which is what I need to deliver.

[Blase Theodore]

Anyone care to comment on this workflow?

Which I’m too busy to test…

Resolve grades out MXF from red.
Redcine x renders out MXF and .AAf with audio only checked.
Redcine x renders out .ALE

Avid imports .ALE to create offline clips.
Dump all media into avid_mediafiles folder
Avid marries audio and video?

Thoughts?

[Margus Voll]

You should be able to test it out really fast with small clips ?

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Margus

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[Blase Theodore]

Here’s what I tried..

Avid –
Export mxf audio and video through redcine X.
Export audio mxf only through redcine x
Export video only mxf through Resolve

Add redcine vid and audio mxf’s to avidMediaFiles directory.
Media Tool shows unified clip.

Add resolve video and redcine audio mxf’s to avidMediaFiles directory.
Media Tool shows separate audio and video clips.

Imported redcine generated ALE. ALE will not relink to Resolve mxfs.

One strange note, if I import a Resolve generated QT or even the source QT, AVID screws up the timecode. CHecking those same QT’s in FCP, the timecode is correct.

– FCP
Imported resolve QT (video only) and source R3d proxy QT (vid and audio) – all timecodes correct.
Overlayed and hand linked resolve QT vid to pxy audio. Tried to export/media manage/mm recompress to create new clips.
All options failed.

In both AVID and FCP, all clips were generated with correct timecodes.

Conclusion: There is no way to create dailies with camera audio in resolve.

[Adam Hendershot]

You can merge clips (the seperate audio and video) in the browser, then batch export the merged clips. I did it for one test and it seemed fine. I haven’t figured out a way to automate the process of merging the clips. If you do let me know!

[Blase Theodore]

For FCP, I tried that. But because it was using the R3D audio, it gave me errors.
This may work with other dailies like 5D or Alexa.

– Batch export – created the clips, but the clips were bad when I tried to re-import them to test them.
– Media manage copy – fails
– MM recompress – fails

Either way, there’s no way to batch link the clips, so its not really an option for me.

[Tyler Fagerstrom]

We’re having a similar set of issues because of the fact that Avid won’t relink to MXF’s. I’m more of an FCP guy, so I may be missing some easy way to do this, but is there a way to import an ALE and link it to Resolve rendered MXF files? Or any kind of MXF file?

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[Blase Theodore]

The ALE would be if you wanted to have a file that linked the audio and video. If its just the davinci video mxf you’re trying to bring in, it shouldn’t be a problem.

Load the mfx files into your Avid Mediafiles/MXF/(whatever)/
Delete the database files. Load Avid, create a project which matches your resolution and framerate. Refresh media databases, then use the media tool to search for the files on your drive.

[Illya Laney]

Hey Tyler,

Toss the AAF files into a new bin and it should automatically link up to the related mxf’s in the Avid MediaFiles folder as long as the folder structure is set up correctly. After that you merge the ALE with the clips in the bin.

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