Premiere Pro and Davinci Resolve?

There is a tutorial here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0S2MJT9wDY, but if you can get it to work, you are a magician.  From what I read it is supposed to work most of the time.  That would not be helpful to me even if I could get it to work.  The problem is that Resolve links the wrong clips to it's timeline (yes, even ones with entirely different names).  Color Finesse is a pretty good program if you're doing very basic stuff, but it is seriously lacking otherwise.  It does not have the ability to use masks, let alone track them.  I was very excited for Speedgrade when I upgraded to CS6, but Speedgrade is pathetic at best.  There is only one color correction control, no curves adjustment, and the only way to be able to see the controls to  use them is to minimize the monitor panel to the point where to clips are too small to be useful.  Aside from a so-so tracker, you'd probably have better luck using the three-way corrector in Premiere.  Davinci is a powerhouse, unfortunately no one was smart enough to make it useable with any of the big-name editing software.  If someone has found a better way PLEASE let us know.

Very annoyed by this as well, have CS6 and it's not an easy task to go back and forth. Resolve is a standard so I fail to understand why Adobe hasn't included the correct XML version in their latest CS6.

I've just finished a 45min documentary with Premiere Pro and Davinci Resolve. Here are a few informations:

If you want to keep you effect like dip to white it's best to export your Premiere Pro sequence as a Final Cut Pro XML. The problem then is that Resolve 8 needs a XML FCP version 5 file and currently Premiere Pro export it as a version 4. So you need to open the sequence with Final Cut Pro, then reexport it as a XML FCP v5 file and then you can import it into Resolve. It seems that Adobe is working on a fix for that.

For rendering and exporting back to Premiere Pro, you can use the preset "FCP7 XML roundtrip" on the render page and then I export the project in the conform tab in Resolve. The XML file can then be read by Premiere Pro directly.

You could start by exporting a AAF file from Premiere Pro but it seems that there is less special effect (dip to white for exemple) that is supported, and it takes so long to export as AAL and then I didn't find a way to import it correctly into Resolve 8.

One problem to watch out for is that you can't have two different clips with the same file name (on a different directory). For Premiere Pro it's not a problem but when you try conform you XML file, Resolve looks for the clip and it doesn't necessary find the good one. I did have that kind of problem with Color, so I didn't paid attention to that, but for my documentary project, I had at least 5 times a file with the name MVI_0001.mov and Resolve mess it up.

Hope this helps...

Here is the response I got from Black Magic:

Hi Philippe,

You can use XML to send your Edit and native files into DaVinci Resolve,
Grade in real-time with our tracker,windows, secondary's etc.. Then Render
your clips and Export an XML that you can re import into Premier Pro.

It's nice and easy!

I hope this helps.

Thanks,

Dan

Black Magic announced in April that they will support CS5.5.

Here's a link to their press release.

http://www.blackmagic-design.com/press/pressdetails/?releaseID=11838

Although it doesn't mention Resolve specifically, I can't imagine that it's not supported now.  I would contact them directly.

You may also want to take a look at Color Finesse.  It's a plugin that comes bundled with After Effects.  I fell in love with it and purchased the full version so I could access it in Premiere Pro.

Here's their link.

http://www.synthetic-ap.com/products/cf/index.html

Hope that helps.

I too would love to hear more about this workflow. Now that apple has dropped the bomb I am hoping Premiere will be my new editor, easier to pick up at this point then avid and since I already have production premium I can spend the $1000 on Resolve and have a fairly complete solution for edit/graphics/finish. It seems like exporting an EDL from Pr and conforming in Resolve would be a straight forward workflow but what about getting back to Pr? Anyone have experience with this workflow?

Kevin Stanley

Local 600 DIT

Orange County CA

I'm not familiar with Resolve, but Colorista II from Red Giant gets high marks around here.

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-colorista-II/