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Export to Resolve with scale, sizing, horizontal flips and dissolves…possible?
I had high hopes in exporting a PPro CS6 sequence to Resolve for my color grade but so far no luck!
I export as FCP xml in PPro.
In Resolve I first set up my media pool linking to all the folders with source clips.
Rhe in the Conform panel I import this FCP xml, choosing the proper sequence to import.
Besides not retaining my sizing, scale set in PPro, these are the additional errors I get
-error on import for several clisp saying it cannot link to certain files because the timecodes do not match!– horizontal flips are not preserved
– scaling not preservedCan anyone help or offer some tips to make this less painful?
I REALLY want to use Resolve but this seems like an impossible task!Local is the new global
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Unless every single clip in your timeline is exactly the same codec, frame size, frame rate and has no effects in the timeline, this will not work. Premiere Pro can handle far more elements than Resolve can.
We send shows to Resolve all the time from Premiere. We flatten the file to a ProRes or DNxHD quicktime, then I use the Scene Detect function in Resolve to cut the show up, grade, then render a new ProRes file back out of Resolve to finish.
Been doing this workflow well over a year, works well.
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[walter biscardi] ” We flatten the file to a ProRes or DNxHD quicktime, then I use the Scene Detect function in Resolve to cut the show up”
One can also cut longer clips or image sequences down to the correct shots with an EDL file.
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Thanks Walter.
Do you do your final render out of Resolve or do you bring it back into Premiere?
How do you handle dissolves? I assume scene detection won’t work with these. Do these need to be added AFTER all CC work in Resolve?Are you ever concerned with quality lost with the extra generation, or is this a non issue with HQ ProRes?
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Hi Walter – i understand this method works for you, but what if you don’t want to work on a flattened sequence in Resolve? My only issue is the frame sizing…shot in 5K, edited for HD (1080), with about half of the shots repositioned/ resized, and half automatically resized using ‘scale to frame size’. Will that automatic rescaling done by Premiere translate over?
Any advice on this?
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