[Arturo García]

My apologies and thank you.

My life needs editing.

[Arturo García]

Ok I’ve been going back and forth with this and I just cant seem to find a proper workflow that is both time saving and best quality output for my canon 5d3 native h264.

im working on a 2014 imac i5 processor running 16gigs of ram.
I usually edit in FCP and now started grading in Davinci resolve lite 10

I’ve been reading about proxies and round tripping but still don’t know if its even worth the converting time (i have A LOT of footage from shooting events).

Ideally i would like to cut the video in final cut then send to resolve to grade. Should i convert my CF cards all into ProRes right off the bat, edit video in fcp then export xml for resolve and bring in master files as well?

Or is creating low res proxies for relinking the original h264 masters better quality wise?

It all has to go back to FCP for final export correct? or can you export a final compression for delivery in Resolve?

I know i have to learn Resolve better but i haven’t had the time and speaking of time, the clock is ticking!!

thanks in advance.

[Arturo García]

You said above

“Resolve doesn’t work with H.264 anyway…it doesn’t like that format any more than FCP does…”

Thats what i meant by strange since it works fine for me when i dump h264 directly into resolve to apply a general LUT to correct the vision color picture style im shooting with, THEN i export the prores for editing in FCP7, export xml, final grade in da vinci and round trip.

The reason i commented on this is because the way i learned was to ALWAYS convert to ProRes before you do ANYTHING but da vinci seems to work fine with h264. Has anyone else tried it? will it make any difference to keep it in h264 for this step?

thanks,

[Arturo García]

Thats strange because ive been importing my 5d mark iii h264 masters directly on davinci to apply a general lut then export to ProRes to cut in FCP7 and it worked like a charm,i then do my final output from FCP7. I understand that this way files are only being compressed twice in the workflow.

Before i used to convert all to ProRes via mpeg streamclip, edit in FCP7, export xml for da vinci to do my grading then recompress to ProRes for relinking and then finally compressing for final output which is usually web.

Any thoughts?