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Anonymous
February 13, 2024
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Davinci Resolve Roundtrip with FX3, FX30 or A7S III and four audio channels

  • February 13, 2024
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I know there are already lots of posts about rountripping to resolve from premiere.

I have tried the XML, EDL and AAF - way. None of them worked.

The main problem is the audio format of the FX3s four-channel-audio file, so all audio from this camera is offline when I import the XML in Resolve.

So as the FX3, FX30 and A7S III all record in the same formats (in this case XAVC-HS 422 10 bit 200mbit with four channel audio), and those are very common cameras I thought maybe somebody already has come up with a good workaround.

I was thinking of maybe consolidate and transcode the whole sequence to prores and then go to Resolve, grade those consolidated clips and relink them in premiere. So I will not loose all my audio (effects) work.

Did anyone try this?

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Anonymous
February 15, 2024

I think maybe the best Idea is just to transcode to prores and roundtrip to resolve with a one way ticket. I can still import the source footage if I need to change anything.. and finish there.

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    Michael Grenadier
    Legend
    February 13, 2024

    Wait, if you're just using Resolve for color correction (as I mainly do), why are you bringing the audio over beyond a reference mixdown?    Not challenging you, just wondering...  

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    Anonymous
    February 13, 2024

    Whats your way to go back to Premiere? I am very curious.

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    February 14, 2024

    Thanks Neil, to be honest right now I am not sure if its better to switch to resolve completely. The only reason to edit in premiere is that some editors I work with only use it - and maybe dynamic link to AE is nice.. But Resolve Studio has much more effects and grading capabilities plus better playback performance.. (FCPx has even better performance and is much more stable on a mac - and Avid has a way more robust workflow for team collaboration, so I have to find a reason to use PP at all, yet.)


    What works, works. They're tools.

     

    I simply do not like Resolve's UI ... it's ugly and weird to me. And the layout is bizarre. Virtually no customization allowed. But i've got good friends who love love love it!

     

    To each their own.

     

    From the discussions I've been through, the essays I've read ... Premiere has the widest non-Avid set of keyboard shorts by far, and also Resolve still lacks some features and editing processes/effects that both Premiere and Avid have.

     

    Well, Resolve came from a total grading app, and is being built by a company who's profit model is to use Resolve as a loss-leader to get people to buy BM hardware. And I've enough BM hardware I didn't need to pay for Resolve Studio ... I have the 'chits' for it from my purchases.

     

    I work in it, and teach pro colorists how to work in Premiere when they must. So I need to do things in both apps all the time, right? Well, I prefer all my custom workspaces in Premiere.

     

    But again, that's me.Not anyone else. Just me.

     

    Things that they swap on ... Premiere's "Adobe" style documentation has improved over the last few years, but ... the "manual" is not nearly as complete as it should be. And many things aren't fully explained in that document, you have to hunt up other places to find the information.

     

    BM provides over four thousand pages of highly detailed manual. Wow, great, right?

     

    Well .... two rather major problems. First, there's no index. So finding any specific thing might take a while. And probably isn't in the section you thought it was in if you do find it.

     

    Second ... they use their own, unique nomenclature for so many things ... so you often have to read what something does to figure out what it is.

     

    I do appreciate all the color tools of course, AND ... the ability to select color and media managment in great specificity and depth. Oh ... my ... yes.

     

    But if I'm going to work on a project just to do something, it will be in Premiere. You ... do what you need!

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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