Workflow Problems with Premiere to Resolve

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Arthur_barker

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Workflow Problems with Premiere to Resolve

PostSun Jan 03, 2021 10:57 am

Hi there!!

Happy New Year everyone!!

So I have a question about the workflow from premiere pro to adobe. I am fairly new to editing so apologies if there is something obvious that I have just missed.

(This also turned out longer than I thought so tried to break it up a bit)

No.1

So I know that you can export your sequence as an XML (in premiere) you can open it up in Resolve and then you render it back and open up a new XML in premiere.

However, the problem I have run into is that the effects don't all transfer over, the biggest one me has been the speed/duration. I have a project that has a lot of clips slowed down in it and this has caused problems when bringing the project back into Premiere Pro.

No.2

So the way I have been trying to get around this is that I create a new sequence for resolve. Remove all the attributes and effects, (However removing time remapping, speed/duration etc, means that my sequence is now all over the place).

Send that over to resolve, do my colour grade and then render.

Now I come back to premiere, however, at this point I don't use the new XML but create a duplicate sequence of the project I have working on, unlink the media in that sequence and relink it to the new media which I had just render in resolve.

This seems to work (kind of) but does main that when I am working in resolve I can't see all the effects and am just editing the clips, individual.

Problem:

I have multiple sequences in the same project which often share clips by with the same name. However, the clips are of different lengths. So when I render the clip in resolve, their durations are different and the clip (shared by two different sequences) can only relink to one media, not two so one sequence duration will be wrong.

No.3

So another thought would be just to render the whole thing then send it to resolve. However, you would have to recut the shot manually? Or is the away around this?

Also what would be the best export setting for the render (I am working on windows)

One last question:

So what do professional colourist do when they receive a project for a client.

How do they ask for it to be given to them? Then in what form to, they send it back?

Sorry, that was so long.

Many thanks


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Jim Simon

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Re: Workflow Problems with Premiere to Resolve

PostTue Jan 05, 2021 6:07 pm

Arthur_barker wrote:effects don't all transfer over
That's the norm, I'm afraid.

Your best option here, in my view, is to just drop Premiere Pro and do all the work in Resolve.
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Re: Workflow Problems with Premiere to Resolve

PostTue Jan 05, 2021 10:21 pm

Ah fair enough, ok thank you for the advice! :D

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