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Just glad it's working for you.
Neil
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I am running into the exact same issue. I am so surprised more people are not complaining about this. I managed to fix it by using Avid MC.
Bring Original media into MC.
Bring AAF into MC.
Use many tricks in MC to relink all the footage. I'll elaborate if anyone wants to know.
Once all the media is relinked in Avid export AAF.
Comes into Resolve as solid as it needs to be.
Done!
This proves my main belief regarding PP, it's NOT a professional tool if you need to collaborate with anything outside of the Adobe eco system.
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Curious how this is going for you? As a long time PPro user, I've been digging into Resolve lately and am having some similiar issues, though not experiencing it globally as you are. I've noticed if I have "ignore file extensions" unchecked, and if I can I'll check "link to source camera files" things usually work at least a little better. Also Red files are a bit of a pain to use, but I've noticed if you import RED files via the media browser vs drag and drop from finder/explorer into PPro things work a tad better.
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I hear from a number of colorists daily. Most Resolve based, but a couple out of Baselight. This entire XML/EDL/AAF thing is a pain in the tushie it seems for about anyone.
My understanding is that if you have experience going from X program to Y program via Z, you're able to work fine. But getting figured out what are the bumps and hiccup producing settings or practices is not easy. And can rear their very ugly mutt going from anything to anything.
Clearly, none of the app's developers puts a great deal of effort into the inter-app processes so many users need. Sad.
Neil
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So this is my “simplest” process now:
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I do it in Premiere -it is fast and reliable. But mostly I prefer to give the preparred files to the colourist so they're ready to go with no guesswork.
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If Adobe Premiere did a few “simple” things it would make life a lot easier:
All these things would be of benefit to more than just people exporting to Resolve.
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not sure whether premiere needs a reliable xml export or resolve needs a reliable xml import... probably both...
I've done the "output each track, and then get rid of the black" dance in Premiere as soon as I have an issue in resolve... and gotta say, it does make working in resolve easier if each camera has it's own track...
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Brownfish,
Great list of things in Premiere that would make the export-XML/EDL process better.
Neil
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The project is long over. The whole thing was a disaster trying to bring things over from PP to Resolve.
In the end, what we had to do was export a ProRes 4444 file for each track with EDLs for each and combine things in Resolve.
Once in Resolve, it worked fine. Metadata for cameras was obviously lost.
Like I mentioned I am not a PP person at all but it seemed no one in my circles of Network TV shows here in LA is either. We had to go thru 3 different AEs till we found one who knew what he was doing.
The whole experience was extremely disappointing.
Unless some major things changed in PP do what I did above.
Good luck.