No Reel No – How to reconnect

[Roman Hankewycz]

Are the clips you’re having trouble with multicam clips by any chance?

roman hankewycz
harbor film company // colorist

[David Steiner]

nope, they’re not multicam clips…

and I couldn’t even say I have “trouble” with them, it’s worse: since 5D/AVCHD-originated files have no “reel number” per se associated with them when they’re imported into Avid and have TC always starting at 1:00:00:00

so in my understanding there isn’t any reel name for Resolve to find the images (and TC isn’t enough since they all start at 1:00:00:00)… so the roundtrip back to Avid doesn’t work (Avid -> Resolve works since AAF directly references the path to the files)

David

[Charlie Edison]

try exporting with consolidate media option, add handles if you wish and choose the highest DNx transcode setting….

take all that across to resolve and try again..

might help ?

[Roman Hankewycz]

David,
I’m testing the 5D to AVID to Resolve workflow myself and have the same problems. Will let you know if I come up with something.

roman hankewycz
harbor film company // colorist

[Roman Hankewycz]

David,
I successfully tried out 2 workflows outlined by Blase Theodore in a post of mine: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/277/13198
I’m curious to hear if it works for you. They require some manual labor but sending to Resolve via EDL and AAF worked.

roman hankewycz
harbor film company // colorist

[Prathvish Hegde]

if you are able to import all clips into resolve using an aaf and every thing is fine the when you are roundtriping once you render the shots also export a edl or xml from resolve and it should work

prathvish hegde
colorist

[Prathvish Hegde]

i am not sure if there is a export aaf option in the conform page…..will get back

prathvish hegde
colorist

[David Steiner]

in the Conform tab one can export in AAF. so after the render, the AAF does work and I can import into Avid.

the only thing is the AAF only “hard links” to the resolve-rendered files, so I can’t “relink my original sequence” to the graded images, I can only “import the AAF into a new sequence”

so going back to Avid does work, but with a “AAF-crunched” sequence, which might or might not work with effects.

basically, I figured it might be better to simply export the final render from Resolve directly

I explained my simple workflow on another thread: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/277/13374

Cheers
David