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EDIT: Thanks to Sven H for explaining that rendering Individual clips from a timeline will not include any adjustment layers from other tracks due to the historical purpose of rendering individual clips for dailies viewing. If adjustments are needed, tick "Flat Pass" in render settings to include any other adjustment tracks above track 1 on the timeline.

I have a very weird thing happening in Resolve 17 Studio at the moment. We did some face capturing with an iPhone last week.

To help with post facial tracking, I'm using Resolve to denoise the footage. I've added three nodes, first denoises, the second does some midDetail on the face only via a power window, then last node some some contrast via a curve.

To give animation department some options, I'm exporting the clips in a B&W version as well. To do this I duplicated the timeline, added a solid colour in the EDIT tab ontop of the clips track, the solid color is in black, then changed the composite blend mode of the solid color track to "Color" to make the footage B&W.

However, when I export this timeline, Resolve simply ignores the solid color layer and it's composite mode and exports the color footage and not a WYSIWYG.

Any ideas?

do you use 'individual clips' on export?
why not desaturate in the color tab. easiest way: add one timeline node and decrease sat to 0

Sven H wrote:do you use 'individual clips' on export?
why not desaturate in the color tab. easiest way: add one timeline node and decrease sat to 0

Yes, I do export them as individual clips. Do I need to add a solid color on each clip?

Dunno, I was just in the mood of doing it that way with the solid color

Sven H wrote:do you use 'individual clips' on export?
why not desaturate in the color tab. easiest way: add one timeline node and decrease sat to 0

I just tried adding a solid color ontop of each clip....Resolve still ignores it.

I just de-saturated each clip. I'd say this might then in fact be a bug.

Thanks Sven H

Set in and out and use single clip.

it's not a bug, it's a feature, literally. resolve treats each element in the timeline as an individual clip, therefore renders them individually.

use single clip with in and out or apply the desaturation as I said above

This comes up fairly often, the erroneous assumption is that individual clips means individual timeline segments.

Another solution for the OP would be to compound the clips prior to export.

Good Luck

Thank $deity_of_your_choosing or BMD for "Render timeline effects" in V18 that solves this problem

Sven H wrote:it's not a bug, it's a feature, literally. resolve treats each element in the timeline as an individual clip, therefore renders them individually.

use single clip with in and out or apply the desaturation as I said above

Wait. So...I use track 2 to insert a solid color over the top of Track 1. If I export the timeline, however I want the individual clips for whatever reason, any elements that falls above the clip in track 1 is ignored?

For example, given the screen grab below of a timeline I quickly created, it doesn't matter what I do on this timeline, exporting individual clips just ignores whatever happens in tracks 2 and above?

Fanjan Combrink wrote:

Sven H wrote:it's not a bug, it's a feature, literally. resolve treats each element in the timeline as an individual clip, therefore renders them individually.

use single clip with in and out or apply the desaturation as I said above

Wait. So...I use track 2 to insert a solid color over the top of Track 1. If I export the timeline, however I want the individual clips for whatever reason, any elements that falls above the clip in track 1 is ignored?

For example, given the screen grab below of a timeline I quickly created, it doesn't matter what I do on this timeline, exporting individual clips just ignores whatever happens in tracks 2 and above?

not by definition. it treats each element as an individual clip and renders every video clip from any track on its own. if you have multiple clips stacked on top it will render all of them (in their original length and frame rate, therefore retimes are ignored btw). since solids have an original length of 1 frame I think they will be rendered as single frame clips / or ignored (I don't have resolve in front of me atm)

but in your example, yes it kinda ignores the stuff in v2 - v4.

"render individual clips" is commonly used in dailes, vfx pulls and other workflows that require roundtripping. if you combine it with "flat pass on" and "source resolution" for example you can easily pull vfx plates from a graded timeline without any workarounds (like changing timeline resolution, killing the grade temporarely etc.)

Sven H wrote:but in your example, yes it kinda ignores the stuff in v2 - v4.

"render individual clips" is commonly used in dailes, vfx pulls and other workflows that require roundtripping. if you combine it with "flat pass on" and "source resolution" for example you can easily pull vfx plates from a graded timeline without any workarounds (like changing timeline resolution, killing the grade temporarely etc.)

Thank you Sven H. The history behind it and how to "bypass" it with "flat pass" is valuable.