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I have a few problems when trying to export individual clips in Resolve 16.1.2.026

There are 35 clips. I have put them on a single timeline.

I have checked individual clips on the deliver page.

Firstly, after rendering, only four of the 35 clips are rendered.

And those four clips do not have the color grades nor the audio changes I made.

They are just the original clips. And did I mention it only rendered four of the 35 clips???

I read somewhere to convert the clips to Compound clips. I did that. 35 Individual compound clips. (I clicked on one clip, right clicked create compound clip, then went to the next clip, create compound clip, etc.).

Now, I get just the four clips as before, but now they don't have ANY audio!!!

Why is this happening???

I have tried using the Custom setting and using the h.264 master.

Any ideas???

Without more information on the clip names, delivery presets etc, I'll venture a guess.

Can you check if the Use unique filenames is enabled under Render settings? Chances are you have multiple clips with the same name and they end up overwriting one another.

Shrinivas Ramani wrote:Without more information on the clip names, delivery presets etc, I'll venture a guess.

All the clip names are unique. They are like this:

P108357.MP4
P108358.MP4
P108359.MP4

The files are all Panasonic h.264 8-bit files. All 1080p 23.978fps

I am exporting them at the same resolution in h.264, same frame rate. So everything is the same.

Quality is set to automatic / best, and encoding profile was set to auto.

I just basically added a light grade to the videos and cleaned up the audio.

Shrinivas Ramani wrote:Can you check if the Use unique filenames is enabled under Render settings? Chances are you have multiple clips with the same name and they end up overwriting one another.

Where do i chek this? I do not see this option on the deliver screen?

Also, this first clip that is exported is given the name:

00000000.mov and it cannot be opened. I don't have any clips named "00000000" so I don't know why it is creating such a clip.

Lets go back.. individual clip renders are designed to render source clips, their audio and video, with a color grade so that they can be used for dailies or offline editing elsewhere, or finishing elsewhere.

so u have 35 flips, four are not rendering?
the other 31 seem to be ok?
so just select the 4 that dont work, one at a time in the deliver page, right click on the thumbnail and select 'render this clip' then send it to the render q.. do that 3 more times.

I reported on a prior thread that I experienced Resolve crashing when exporting individual clips and IF the clip had a Fusion effect applied to it. If i rendered the entire timeline that would render. Source files were Gh5 10 bit.

Peter Chamberlain wrote:Lets go back.. individual clip renders are designed to render source clips, their audio and video, with a color grade so that they can be used for dailies or offline editing elsewhere, or finishing elsewhere.

Yes, that is what I want to have happen. I throw all 35 of the clips on to a timeline, do some basic audio tweaks, do a basic grade, and then I want to export all 35 of those clips as individual clips so they can be edited somewhere else.

Peter Chamberlain wrote:so u have 35 flips, four are not rendering?
the other 31 seem to be ok?

Actually, the other way around. I have 35 clips, and 31 of them are NOT rendering.

And the four clips that are "rendered" don't have the audio tweaks nor the color grade I did on them.

Peter Chamberlain wrote:so just select the 4 that dont work, one at a time in the deliver page, right click on the thumbnail and select 'render this clip' then send it to the render q.. do that 3 more times.

Well... what I had to do to get it to work (I was in a time crunch), was go back to render as a single clip, right click on the thumbnail of the first clip, click Render This Clip, add it to the Render Queue, then right click the second clip, click Render This Clip, add it to the Render Queue, then click the third clip, right click Render This Clip, add it to the Render Queue, and so on... for all 35 clips.

Then in the Render Queue itself, I control-clicked all 35 clips lined up in the queue (which were in the queue as 35 individual jobs) and then clicked the Start Render button, and voila, it worked. It went through all 35 jobs, and gave me 35 individual clips, this time WITH the audio tweaks and color grade applied.

But that seems like a really inefficient way to do dailies.

Am I correct that in theory one should be able to have a bunch of clips on the timeline and be able to grade them a bit and export them as individual clips with one button click (more or less)???

Also, I just upgraded to Resolve Studio 16.2.0.055 and it sill has the same problem for me.

1. The clip's original audio is used when exporting as Individual Clips, so your processing won't be included.

2. These 35 clips are from 35 different video files on the hard drive? You're not cutting up a long video into smaller clips?

I'm having a similar issue.

I have clips from 3 different cameras. Each set of clips from a camera is on its own timeline.

The clips from my Blackmagic 4k, shot in ProRes, render out fine as individual clips. Same goes for clips I have shot from a Sony A7R. But, I'm running into trouble with my clips from my Canon 60D. All the Canon clips are in their own timeline. When I export all the clips as individual files, I only get one file, labeled with the filename I set, with "00000000" appended to the end of the name. And the file is only the last clip from my timeline. I just upgraded to 16.2 right before starting this project.

I'll try what was suggested about rendering them each separately. Just wanted to let the OP know he's not the only one having issues.

You need to use the "Use unique filenames" checkbox in the Deliver page File tab.

Jim Simon wrote:1. The clip's original audio is used when exporting as Individual Clips, so your processing won't be included.

Zoinks! That's not good, Scoob.

Jim Simon wrote:2. These 35 clips are from 35 different video files on the hard drive? You're not cutting up a long video into smaller clips?

Yes, they were recorded in camera as 35 different individual clips. Not a single clip that is cut up on the timeline.

Dwaine Maggart wrote:You need to use the "Use unique filenames" checkbox in the Deliver page File tab.

Thanks. That solved 50% of the problem.

Is there any way to include the audio adjustments that I made? Or will it only output the exact same audio that was recorded in camera?

Mark_Rodriquez wrote:Is there any way to include the audio adjustments

You would have to turn every clip into a Compound Clip from the Edit page.

Jim Simon wrote:

Mark_Rodriquez wrote:Is there any way to include the audio adjustments

You would have to turn every clip into a Compound Clip from the Edit page.

So go to the edit page, then right click each individual clip and convert to a compound clip?

I can do it, but surely there must be a more efficient way? What do people with hundreds of clips do?

(And I noticed that if I select ALL the clips on the timeline and right click New Compound Clip, I just get one really long clip. so I am pretty sure that I would need to right click each individual clip and do it one at a time.)

If you check this forum you find that there a about 300 billion requests to be able to render individual clips from the timeline as laid out with audio on the timeline, so not from source clips. As a 3rd option as render source clips has also an important reason of beeing.
So far unfortunately ignored and a pitty as Resolve is rediculously amazing, but this simple lacking extra option would make the life of so may people with a different audio workflows so much easier.

So no atm only options are to either use compound clips for every clip on the timeline or do the one by one render as you did in the render page. You can try and create some automation for it with marcro recorder type of programs to make life a bit easire if you have a few hundred clips and hope for DR25 to maybe finaly have this feature.

Glenn Venghaus wrote:If you check this forum you find that there a about 300 billion requests to be able to render individual clips from the timeline as laid out with audio on the timeline, so not from source clips. As a 3rd option as render source clips has also an important reason of beeing.
So far unfortunately ignored and a pitty as Resolve is rediculously amazing, but this simple lacking extra option would make the life of so may people with a different audio workflows so much easier.

So no atm only options are to either use compound clips for every clip on the timeline or do the one by one render as you did in the render page. You can try and create some automation for it with marcro recorder type of programs to make life a bit easire if you have a few hundred clips and hope for DR25 to maybe finaly have this feature.

Ahhh... ok. Thanks so much for the explanation.

Here's my workaround for doing just that which is a combination of things people have already mentioned in this thread and other ones discussing this issue:

1. Edit your clips on the timeline however you want - both video and audio.
2. Make as many cuts as you want to as long as you always cut both video and audio together
3. Select all your clips. Cope them. Paste them at the end of your timeline. Select the new copies and turn them into one big compound clip. The reason you do that is because once those clips have been converted into a compound clip Resolve now treats that new compound clip you just created as an original clip. And as we all learned by now - when using the "export as individual clips" option Resolve always exports the original clip's audio (which in this case is the audio of the compound clip which references the EDITED audio).
4. Take that compound clip and put it on the track above all your original clips. That way you'll be able to see where the cuts are.
5. This is where the magic happens. As Glenn mentioned - you can use automation to replicate all the cuts on your timeline. I would typically edit all my clips and cut out all the useless stuff out so I always end up with 100's of clips on my timeline. I use Keyboard Maestro for the automation part. I have it set up to do the following: add cut, go to the next edit, add cut, go to the next edit, add cut, go to the next edit, etc until I press the ESC button. It goes through the timeline in seconds.
6. Now take the chopped up compound clip (which should have the exact same cuts in the exact same places as the original clips) and move it back to the end of the timeline and export just that.
7. Don't forget to select "custom name" then "Use unique filenames" from the "file" tab on the export page otherwise it won't work.

I know it might seem like a lot of work but once you've done it a couple of times you realize it's so quick that I don't really even care if DR ever adds that feature or not. I hope this helps someone else out there. Happy editing!