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Split and Add not working as I think it should?
Completely new to Resolve. Trying out the free version to try and understand it from an assistants position. I have a DPX sequence that is a conformed cut from an on-line. I have an EDL from an Avid off-line session. In the Browser tab of Resolve I right click the DPX sequence in the Clip Details window and request that it Split and Add into Media Pool. It brings up the window and I navigate to the EDL. I select the EDL, 24fps, no handle, no unreferenced clips. It creates a single clip in the Media Pool. 10:01 in duration and the Start TC and End TC are not event times in my EDL.
What I hope to achieve is to split the conformed DPX sequence into individual shots and hope that it takes the reel numbers and source TC from the EDL so when I go to the Conform tab and either preconform or load and EDL or XML that represents changes to an edit that it automatically finds the media and maintains the grade.
I’ve found plenty of tutorials and explanations on how to do grading, but very little that covers the I/O workflow very well. Any guidance or suggestion of where to look for answers would be very appreciated.
Thank you,
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Hi Jay,
Yeah, it’s a little confusing… “split” in the media pool refers to making separate media pool entries out of a single piece of media (usually camera takes) so that Resolve won’t automatically share grades between them. It doesn’t split them into shots in the timeline.
For what you want to do, to use an EDL as a cut list, you should navigate to the DPX sequence in the media browser and right click it to use it for “scene cut detection.” The will load it into the scene tab where you can either use the automatic cut detection (which you don’t need to, because you have an EDL) or “load EDL” which will insert all the edits listed in the EDL.
Then hit “split” to split your DPX sequence into multiple media pool entries and you are good to go. The Scene Detection window is also a good place to check the EDL you have, and remove through-edits or add ones that might need to be put in for grading purposes…
KC
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Split and Add uses the source timecode fields of the EDL to split up the media. This is often used when you are conforming in Resolve with multiple source files, and not using a pre conformed sequence (single clip).
The other advantage of using the Split and Add is that you only add sufficient material (plus handles) to conform the EDL. This keeps the media pool/master session small and manageable.
What you are looking for I think is the pre conform button in the conform. It normally does not split up the media, but if you need it do, there is an option in the config page, Settings tab I think for this.
Hope this helps!
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Ok, I do that, and that’s cool. Then I go back to Media Composer. Make a few changes, trims only, and then export a new EDL of that. Then take that EDL to Resolve and in that same project I go into conform where I have the master session based on the first EDL and I use Preconform to bring in the second EDL.
About 2/3 of the clips show no media associate and the ones that do are all off and many have wrong media. If I use Load EDL then every clip in the new session is off-line.
There really needs to be a much better explanation of this whole process in the manual. They make is sound really easy, and it’s not. And while I may not be the brightest guy in the world, I’m not that stupid. Really, I’m not. Am I?
Thank you for any clarification that anyone can provide.
Jay Mahavier
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I could be mistaken, but I think he also is asking, that the material’s name and TC of the original sources is preserved as well. Resolve could take those names and TC from the EDL and assign that info to the newly split media. This way, for example, with source TC assigned, one would still be able to do a timeline sort by TC. And color auto-trace would still would work.
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For Preconform projects, we use the reel number and timecode from the EDL for color tracing.
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That’s good to know, that color trace still works, Rohit, but if that’s the case, can the timeline be then re-sorted by the TC?
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Yes it already does.
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Great, I’ll give it a twirl!
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Which brings us to the point where everyone would really appreciate those 2.5 tutorials by Warren, talking about the yays and nays of pre-re-deconforming with all its booby-traps and obstacles of real life no edit assistant scenarios of the modern indie world.
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Can you post a link to those tutorials? I would really like to know how make editorial changes work in Resolve.
Thank you,
Jay Mahavier
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