For the life of me, I cannot get resolve to reliably export to AAF for use in an external DAW. Why is this standard interchange workflow such a royal pain in the **** (not just resolve I should add). I have been trying to do this now for 2 days and am at the end of my tether. It shouldn't be like this.
I have tried, Cubase 10.5, Nuendo, and Logic Pro X (and FCPX).
This is the issue I am currently facing.
Project was edited in FCP7 and delivered as an fcp.xml. The movie files are all MXF format and the field recorder sound are polywavs.
This imported perfectly (more or less) in Davinci resolve. I imported the field recorder sound,I setup all the tracks and set to work pairing separately recorded audio with clips where needed and started balancing dialog, adding atmos, spot fx etc in fairlight. All good.
However, for this project, I am creating many sounds and doing sound design which is outside the scope of fairlight, and I have been doing this in Nuendo. I keep going back & forth creating, rendering, importing etc, so I thought it would make sense to switch the sound design to Nuendo for this project.
I have tried the export to protools, avid AAF, file export=>aaf, even to fcpx xml & re-importing as suggested here: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=65414.
Now with fcpx xml, FCPX seems to bring everything in ok, but obviously incapable of any decent DAW export workflow (either AAF or OMF). Logic Pro X however, can, but it can't deal with MXF files. I have even tried transcoding to Prores and exporting fcpx but then some elements vanish, and some have timing issues (i.e. start on the clapper board instead of the marked regions). It's a mess, a total mess. Nuendo has no hope of importing the output from Resolve.
I went to FCP 7 and exported the original edited project as OMF and Nuendo is happy as Larry, but of course, I can't use that because I've moved the project forward in resolve.
Can anyone shed a ray of light on an interchange workflow that will actually work? I really like resolve and have used it entirely to produce, but just want to use an external DAW for this project without having to go back to the original edit and repeat my work.
I have tried, Cubase 10.5, Nuendo, and Logic Pro X (and FCPX).
This is the issue I am currently facing.
Project was edited in FCP7 and delivered as an fcp.xml. The movie files are all MXF format and the field recorder sound are polywavs.
This imported perfectly (more or less) in Davinci resolve. I imported the field recorder sound,I setup all the tracks and set to work pairing separately recorded audio with clips where needed and started balancing dialog, adding atmos, spot fx etc in fairlight. All good.
However, for this project, I am creating many sounds and doing sound design which is outside the scope of fairlight, and I have been doing this in Nuendo. I keep going back & forth creating, rendering, importing etc, so I thought it would make sense to switch the sound design to Nuendo for this project.
I have tried the export to protools, avid AAF, file export=>aaf, even to fcpx xml & re-importing as suggested here: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=65414.
Now with fcpx xml, FCPX seems to bring everything in ok, but obviously incapable of any decent DAW export workflow (either AAF or OMF). Logic Pro X however, can, but it can't deal with MXF files. I have even tried transcoding to Prores and exporting fcpx but then some elements vanish, and some have timing issues (i.e. start on the clapper board instead of the marked regions). It's a mess, a total mess. Nuendo has no hope of importing the output from Resolve.
I went to FCP 7 and exported the original edited project as OMF and Nuendo is happy as Larry, but of course, I can't use that because I've moved the project forward in resolve.
Can anyone shed a ray of light on an interchange workflow that will actually work? I really like resolve and have used it entirely to produce, but just want to use an external DAW for this project without having to go back to the original edit and repeat my work.
DaVinci Resolve Studio 18.6.5 build7, MacStudio M2 Ultra 128Gb, OSX Sonoma,10TB SSD (2TB, & 2x 4TB). URSA Broadcast 6.7, BMPCC 6K, Cubase 13