Making the leap from Symphony to Resolve

[Michael Phillips]

Will they be running on the same system?
Different system, but on a SAN?
Working with Avid native MXF media?
Conform to camera originals?
Greater than HD master?
Finish in Resolve for all deliverables?
Roundtrip back to Symphony?

I will say that the Resolve User Manual is very well written and would be the first place to start. The MC workflow is documented in several areas.

Michael

[Glenn Sakatch]

Just remember, a lot of what you are doing in Symphony for finishing you will still have to do in Symphony.

I tell everyone I color in Resolve, but finish in (in my case) DS.

Proper titles, picture fixes, fx work still is much easier in other programs.

I have a few plugins for Resolve, but I’ve actually quit using them within the program because they just kill the playback.

(Neat Video and a film plugin) I run them in DS, render them once, and I’m off to the races. In Resolve, the whole project comes to a halt when a clip hits a plugin.

I just told this story the other day on another forum. I was in DS cloning out an objectionable item in a shot when the director proclaimed “Resolve sure is an awesome program” I replied, yes it is an awesome program, but we aren’t in Resolve right now”

Its not that it can’t “finish” a show, but there are better tools for some aspects of “finishing”…right now.

Glenn

[Chris Coote]

I have been using this workflow on a series recently:

Export AAF from avid (Link to original avid media DNX145)
Color in resolve
Export using Avid round trip preset DNX220X targeting new folder 2
in Avid MediaFiles – MXF folder.
Generate new AAF from Resolve
Let Avid scan the new database on Avid restart.
Import AAF.
This has been working great so far.

Chris

[Glenn Sakatch]

For sure, my comment was more to say “don’t throw out your finishing box yet”

Glenn