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Manual ColorTrace populates black thumbnails in the “Timeline to Copy From” section…
I was hired by a client to help them figure out how to roundtrip their project from FCP X to Davinci. After taking the job, I discovered that they had already colored a previous version of the project, but that they intended to make some tweaks to the edit. I convinced them to go ahead and lock the changes they wanted in Final Cut and helped them output a new XML based on the changed sequence. Not a problem.
When I brought the XML into Resolve, I went to the ColorTrace menu and first tried to use the automatic colortrace functionality. That worked for maybe 90% of the sequence, but we soon realized that some of the shots appeared to have the wrong grades applied. Not to worry, I knew I could do a manual ColorTrace and that sould fix my problem.
The issue is that when I choose the Manual selection, Davinci doesn’t populate the thumbnails for the original color grade sequence from which I’m trying to copy the grades. Instead, I get a few thumbnails, but mostly just black thumbnails instead. So there’s no way for me to know which shots match up to which.
Has anyone experienced this before? And is there a solution for it?
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Here’s a screenshot of what I’m looking at:
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There’s always the brute force technique: take the original project, grab all stills, go back to the new project, and manually copy those grades over to the new project one shot at a time. I have not seen ColorTrace fail too much in the last couple of years, but I have seen it crash and become unwieldy under certain conditions. It’s been pretty good since 11.
You might also try exporting old project, then reimporting it under a different name and using that for ColorTrace and see if this fixes the black frames. I’m guessing this could be some mild database corruption, but it’s only a guess.
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