Long form workflow.

[Margus Voll]

I think it really depends how you like to go.
No just one way.

General workflow stuff is really common on any platform not just resolve to fcp.

Good example is speed changes that Ola pointed out.
This is just common sense that you will have baked in speed in final renders considering
the tools you have.

Other way would be to grade “base” material around this area and later reconnect to
fcp. I would make managed project out of fcp and get rid of speed changes
before going to resolve. Then grade this and later go back to fcp to reconnect
to this managed project. Should be pretty simple.

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Margus

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[Brendan Dillon]

Speed changes shouldn’t be a problem if rendering out from the Master Session in source mode.

A good workflow is to Media Manage the FCP sequence and then make an EDL. Take the Media Managed clips to resolve and load the EDL. Two sessions will be created – a Master Session containing all the clips in ‘default’ order, and a session created by the EDL (your cut). Grade using the second session (the cut) and then render in source mode from the Master Session.

All the graded rendered clips will come out the same length as the original ungraded media managed clips.