What format do I export out of Premiere Pro, in order to color grade a movie in Da Vinci Resolve?

[Shane Ross]

A lot of prep work (conforming) happens in the NLE before you send it to Resolve. In Avid, you need to give all your footage REEL NUMBERS by modifying the clips. I’m sure you need to do something similar in Premiere. I’m not familiar enough with Premiere to know what you do to do that, but you need to assign a reel number to each different reel of footage. OR…like some do in Avid, give each clip a unique reel number. Yes, this can take a LONG time…this is one of the big issues with current editing software and tapeless media….there’s no default to give it a reel number.

Back in the tape days, the editing software would always prompt you to type in a tape name when you put in a new tape. Tapeless ingest doesn’t do that. FCP 7 would default add the tape ID by looking at the name of the folder the tapeless media was coming from. FCX didn’t follow up with that practice until VERY recently. And Premiere and Avid don’t do that at all. Which is why it needs to be done after the fact. I tried to online a feature doc cut on FCX and 60% of the footage linked improperly. To clips with the same name, and timecode, but many days and months apart. BIG issue with camera makers who make their cameras restart TC and clip names when you put in a new card, thus causing this need to “fix it in post” yet again.

OR…you can make sure all your media is full resolution in Premiere Pro, and then output a high res file of the whole cut…ProRes 444, ProRes HQ…or DNxHR HQ. And then export an EDL and bring in the final export to REsolve and use the EDL to chop up that clip. I always ask my clients to provide a full res export, so I can use that for footage that might not link up right (stills) and for areas where they use plugins or transition effects that I don’t have.

Shane
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[Ryan Elder]

Oh okay thanks, none of the tutorials I read or watched on how to get an AAF out of Premiere into Resolve, talks about re-numbering all the takes. I gave the takes names so I would know which is which, of course. But each tutorial skips over this process.