[Evan Griffin]

Thanks Michael, super helpful. All of the native folders do contain those .ale files as well as FCP XML.

I do like the idea of doing the conform in Resolve, because in theory that seems much faster, but as I mentioned, it got a bunch of clips wrong. Not sure if that was a problem with the DIT or a lack of metadata or parameters to control that relink when importing the AAF into Resolve. And since it’s a feature, it is a little maddening to have to go through everything and reconnect those. At the same time, I’ll have to spot-check everything anyways so maybe it doesn’t really matter. I wish it just “worked”, but I don’t think anything will be 100% with a feature conform workflow into Resolve.

Perhaps, though more tedious, getting the online right in Avid could be the more solid, successful way of getting the conform right for Resolve.

[Evan Griffin]

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[Evan Griffin]

Thanks for the replies.

@Michael
I had to make the AAF myself. I have one drive that is dedicated only to the files used in the edit and all projects and bins associated with the edit. Then I have two separate external drives that were the dumps of all Native and Dailies from set.

Not sure I found the reel name preference in Resolve, but I followed the rest of your suggestion and did manage to import the AAF and many things did link up to the native in the cut. However, some things didn’t link, such as nested clips, which is understandable. But, from just skimming through the entire timeline, repeatedly in a number of scenes, some clips linked to a shot from a whole other scene, and some of them have conflict resolution badges, but when clicked, the other clips it lists in the conflict resolution dialogue (sometimes 2 or 3 other clips) are not the correct one either.

So, I’m not sure what happened there. If the metadata it needed wasn’t there, perhaps Resolve just linked from timecode? I don’t see how that would explain the wrong clips it sporadically linked to, though, because I don’t believe there was duplicate timecode, but I’ll look closer.

Here is a screenshot of some of the dailies inside Avid

Here’s a screenshot of some of the Native that I brought into Avid via AMA link (as the editors did not import the native into the Avid project at all)