Deliver - how to render full individual clips

hi all,

just finishing up a grade for a short film, I would like to deliver as individual prores clips so the director can easily import into FCP 7. All source clips are 25fps, so i figured it would be pretty straight forward to just render as "individual clips" and keep the same file names & frame rate, and just let the director link to the graded clips in FCP 7...

My problem is that the resulting clips are trimmed into sections that cover what is used in the timeline rather than giving me graded versions of the source footage. Admittedly I am not hugely familiar with FCP and do not have a copy to test with here.

I have considered making a new timeline and then dumping all of the graded source clips into it and then rendering this individually as the graded versions but i remembered that in some cases the same clip is used multiple times with different local version grades to compensate for changes in lighting conditions, so obviously it would be problematic to do this manually using the described method...

does anyone know an easy way around this? is it generally accepted that the editor (in this case the director) should be manually importing the new shortened clips into his existing timeline in FCP7? PS if anyone knows of a good tut on the FCP7 side, i'd really appreciate a link

thanks in advance for taking the time to read/reply!

[Peter Chamberlain]

There is a checkbox on Deliver page to render individual clips rather than the whole timeline. You can also set a handle length in the Render settings. Details in the extensive manual.
Peter

There are a couple of approaches.
First read the manual. There is a section on final cut round tripping. Essentially you would regenerate an XML within the resolve (it will even reinsert the effects used in Fcp session)
Alternatively, after grading go back to the conform panel and select a master timeline. Your grades will be saved but now your timeline will have your clips at their full length, without regard to the edit. This way, when you go to the deliver page and chose output individual clips, you will get your original media in its full length, not limited by edit points. Your render time of course will increase significantly if your media to edit ratio is anything like mine expect up to 16 times increase in render times. As it will have to chug through that much more footage.
The bigger point to understand, however, is that resolve is a fully media managed application, in that it respects time-codes and reel names, and as a matter of fact will not let you confirm your fcp timeline if your media is not managed to begin with.
In theory, even if you produce trimmed clips as your grading session's result and do not generate a new Fcp XML file within the resolve, the timecode information in the resulting coups should work nicely to relink the media within your final cut project.

Thankyou very much dmitry!
That is a huge help!