FCP7 xml round trip

[Vladimir Kucherov]

Resolve understands fades, dissolves, and clip speed.

Things like motion effects, filters, are ignored by resolve but kept in the timeline when brought back to FCP. So if you don’t do any repositioning inside Resolve, your project will go back to FCP perfectly.

Any titles you had will be kept, although show up as offline clips in Resolve.

Actual speed ramps with variable speed are not supported.

All in all the roundtrip is pretty good!

[Adrian Zehn]

Thanks- so anything “unsupported” needs to be baked as a self contained quicktime or just doesn’t show with the ‘effect’ in Resolve, but can be graded and survives the round trip?

AZ

[Chris Hall]

Resolve only supports rendering to a standard single resolution for a project as well, so if you have multiple formats that were resized and repositioned in fcp, they will come back from resolve with different resolutions (based on your project configuration in Resolve, ie 1080p, 2k, whatever) and you will have to redo your repos in fcp. If everything in your project is the same resolution (like all 2K red material), then your resizing will be fine in fcp. I recently had a project with tons of different formats and resolutions that when brought into resolve defaulted everything to 1080p upon render; when brought back to fcp all the resizes and repos on anything not 1080 were all over the place (2K film scans were off, and lower rez standard def stuff was way off now). So its not a perfect “roundtrip workflow” you have to take care of resizes before and bake them in (in fcp), or do everything in resolve and wipe the resizes in fcp afterwards.

Chris Hall
Colorist – Basher Films
Pasadena, CA

[Glenn Sakatch]

I just did a music video …xml from FCP to resolve. There were plenty of time ramps, in it, and they did come across. They were set up as two edits. One for the sped up shot, and then cut to a normal speed shot. A couple of times i had to slide the edit to get the match frame to actually match.

This one also had a second layer of additive keys that were done in Final Cut. The second layer came across fine, except for 1 shot that the editor had done a picture flop to. I had to manually move it in resolve. The Additive aspect of the keys actually came across for me. I didn’t have to tell the second track clips what mode to be in.

I didn’t round trip back, I just rendered out a final movie for them, but I am going to do a test round trip back to see what happens.

Glenn