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I am exporting all the footage that I shot to my client for review as individual clips. I've done my basic color corrections and I've also done some basic audio adjustments on each clip such as levels, compression, disable audio for clips I don't want to keep the audio, etc. [Look at attached image] However, when I export the timeline as individual clips the exported files still have the original unedited audio. Even clips for which I deleted the audio still export WITH the audio.

Why??

This behavior makes no sense. For example - any color adjustments I made to the clips exported just fine. Doesn't it make sense that any audio adjustments I made to the clips should export as well? BOTH the video AND the audio portions of a clip have been modified but ONLY the video effects export. And I want the audio effects to export as well. Please help!!

Individual clip mode is for dailies and editing round trip so no timeline effects are applied, just color correction.

Do consider the Bounce Clip options available in the Fairlight timeline.

After spending a whole day trying to figure this out and reading all the comments from other threads talking about this same issue I've come up with a workaround that is actually pretty good. Sharing it here in case it might help someone else out there:

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. Every time there is a cut - that becomes a new clip.
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 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. 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!

This is a fantastic workaround - great job figuring this out, and the keyboard maestro part was the missing link for sure. I'm excited to try it out - I need this once per episode to export audio from the cut, per shot, out to our animation team. This is gold!

There are a few past threads from over the years, where people have been clamoring for this - might have to go back and point them here! Nice one.

IvanTheEditor wrote:After spending a whole day trying to figure this out and reading all the comments from other threads talking about this same issue I've come up with a workaround that is actually pretty good. Sharing it here in case it might help someone else out there:

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. Every time there is a cut - that becomes a new clip.
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 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. 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!

Thank you so much fore this work around. I wish Davinci did have an automation process for this. Most producers want to hear audio when exporting Dallies