FCP X round-trip: Need different grades for different sections of a single clip

[Michael Holmes]

Thanks, Peter.
I would like to sure I am clear on how to do this.

In the Resolve 9 manual, on page 543 under “Rendering Versions”, it says:

“When the time comes to render your clips in the Deliver page, each clip’s currently selected version will be rendered. If you need to render a different version for a given clip, you can either make sure it’s selected in the Color page Timeline before you open the Deliver page, or use the Versions submenu in the Deliver page Timeline.”

This suggests you can only render one version for a given clip at a time. However, below that it says:

“Additionally, the Commercial Workflow output option, located in the Deliver page, provides a method of rendering multiple versions for each clip when outputting your project in Source Order (as individual media files). There are two additional options in the Version submenus of each clip in the Thumbnail Timeline contextual menu that let you control which versions are rendered when you use Commercial Workflow.”

So, this seems to say that I have to use the Commercial Workflow to render multiple versions at the same time.

When I go to page 574, it says:

“Use commercial workflow: Automatically renders every version that’s applied to each clip in the session, except for versions that have been flagged using the “Render Disabled” flag, found in the Version submenu for each clip in the Timeline. This option is typically used when you’ve graded multiple versions of a clip to be used for VFX work, and you want to deliver each grade as a separate media file.”

So:
Am I correct that I need to use Commercial Workflow to render all the different versions at one time?

If this is correct, the problem I see is that if I go to the Deliver page and select “Final Cut Pro XML Round-trip” in the easy setup, the “use commercial workflow” under Output Options is greyed out.

I can make this option available by selecting “None” for the easy setup, but I assume this means that Resolve will then not output XML.

Is Commercial workflow inconsistent with XML output?

I’m am just trying to clearly understand how I do this.

[Peter Chamberlain]

The easy setups are just configurations of the render settings so you can use None and commercial workflow to get all the versions.
Peter

[Michael Holmes]

Outstanding, thanks Peter.