[Glenn Sakatch]

You can actually batch render multiple timelines and multiple projects. I do dailies where each day is a different project. Within that project, each card is a different timeline. Within that project, add each timeline to your queue as you would normally. You can save your render settings for that file type and save location. You may have to manually change the location for each card to get a subfolder setup the way you want, but once you add it to the queue, it will retain that information.

If you need to jump to a different project…say you don’t Saturday and Sundays cards till Monday, then you go through the same process with those days. Set up your individual timelines and add them to the queue. In the delivery page, there is a tab that will allow you to show all projects. Click this button, you you will be presented with every queue item you have worked with. Delete the ones you don’t want and hit render. Resolve will automatically open the project it needs to work its way through the queue.

As for needing to delete old rendered projects, you don’t need to do that if you don’t want to. Resolve should tell you when you hit render that some of the items have already been rendered. It then asks you if you want to rerender, or skip them.

As well, you can always double click a queued item to call up its inpoint and outpoint, and settings…change them, and re-add to the queue, and render. Here you may want to delete the original, if it is unrendered, and you don’t want two versions to get rendered. You can also select individual items in the queue and hit render, and Resolve will ignore all the other items in the queue.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Basically two different ways to achieve the same thing.

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[Glenn Sakatch]

why don’t you update your resolve?

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[Glenn Sakatch]

Does your animation have a key channel built into it?

You will probably want to import it with the alpha reversed. It should then come in as a keyable element. Put it on a new video track on top of your interview. Then use Michaels suggestion to move it around, and scale to fit.

If it doesn’t have a key channel, but has a solid bar built into it, then you could crop out the black and move it around to fit…again, on a new video track.

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[Glenn Sakatch]

The place we use, utilize court reporters, makes it go through pretty quickly.

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[Glenn Sakatch]

Where is your footage coming from?

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[Glenn Sakatch]

I just went through this on a project of my own. For us the biggest hassle was the pc vs Mac issue, simply because quite a bit of the footage was AMA linked. Every time you load their bin you must relink the bins that use those clips.

My pc was looking for G drive material. And her Mac was looking for Volume named material.

If it was all avid media then it is just a matter of keeping it organized.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

If you did a round trip back to Avid, would it not reapply your pan and zoom? (I don’t usually work too much with stills like this…but that was my assumption)

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[Glenn Sakatch]

take a look in your quarantine folder

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[Glenn Sakatch]

To use the “Link to media in all open bins” function, that media needs to be brought into your project- have you done this, or are you just trying to link to the avid as it sits in your database folder?

Open a new bin and drag the database into this bin. You should now see your clips, including the one you described KSZF_0909.

From here, I usually suggest just trying to get Avid to link to this clip. Try and figure out what settings are needed to link to it.

Open another bin,and put a copy of your sequence in it. Go to the hamburger menu, and select “set bin display” and at the bottom “show media relatives” I think that’s what its called. This will populate the bin with every clip needed to build that sequence.

Find the clip KSZF_0909 and highlight it. Now set up some custom columns to see what information is available with that clip. Name,TapeID Source File, Tape, Start, End, Duration. Deselect all other columns. Save that view as AMALInks

Go to your bin with all the media from the database, and call up the view AMALinks.

Find KSZF_0909 and compare the information in the two bins. At some point you should be able to see a piece of information that is different, which should help you narrow down what fields you need to select or avoid to get the custom relink to work. One of the easiest is the name field. Is it the same for both bins. Is the Start TC the same. If so, that is your custom setting to get the link to activate. If not, does the Name that is appearing in one bin show up in a different column in the other bin. If so, that is your custom relink setting using the “target is different” tab. (you could also copy that information column into the name column and continue from there)

I find a more organized approach to selecting these settings will usually help you get the links to work, as well as help your understanding for the next time this happens, cause it will happen again.

One final note, with all the best workflows in the world being suggested and tried, sometimes you still have to go in and manually re-edit the shot in. Pain in the butt, but sometimes I do find the data all seems correct, but it sill won’t relink.

Glenn