Roundtrip Between Avid and Resolve Pt 2

[@terrywester6120]

Great job explaining this! You have a great style, keep it up.

[@glennsakatch7876]

Thanks Terry.

[@tvtech4688]

Thanks Terry, appreciate the comment.

[@Larinator]

I have been a filmmaker for 30 years and I am still learning things. Having just shot a self-funded feature documentary I wanted to use BRAW but was put off by the complexity of roundtripping so ended up shooting on a BMPCC4K ProRes HQ film log. Still looks wonderful and the edit process is simple in Avid but these two instructional videos are very informative so I will be shooting the next project on BRAW (after some testing to make sure I have it right!). Thank you, these are the best roundtripping videos I have seen. There are a few out there but sometimes they miss the nitty gritty important details.

[@tvtech4688]

I find cutting in Braw still causes some crashes in Avid, so, yes, i would suggest you can shoot braw, but cut in something a bit easier on the box. Do you plan on coloring in Resolve?

[@srijana6016]

thanks bro u taught me a lot ...i have little bit doubt how to bring slow motion shot from resolve to avid

[@glennsakatch7876]

If you started in Avid with a speed change, it will get reapplied when you go back to Avid. If you are trying to change the speed in Resolve, but the edit started in Avid, that breaks the roundtrip workflow a bit, like I said in the videos. If you want to start in Resolve and go to Avid, the speed change should be included in the AAF, but I honestly don't usually start in Resolve, and then go to Avid. I almost always start in Avid.

[@tvtech4688]

Glad it is helping. Slo mo should be retained if round tripping, and it was started in Avid. If you changed the speed in Resolve, you would be best to export that as a new shot, and manually cut it back into Avid. That falls into the "changing the timeline" category.

[@christianrushpostpro]

Let's say we're working in a project that has several days of dailies, like a feature or a doc. Is there a way to import an AAF to a fresh resolve project and have it find the original source media? It'd be nice to not have such a bloated project as sometimes you can have 30 days of footage to search across for a feature. Also in some cases the dailies house isn't the same house that does the color grade. So the color house might not even have the dailies DRP. Last question: In part 1 you used reel names based on file name. In cases of Alexa/RED cameras etc. could you use embedding in source clip file instead? Either way, this is a GREAT resource and I appreciate the tutorial as it solved my issue.

[@tvtech4688]

Hi Christian, thanks for the comments. Just making sure i'm understanding your first question. If you were to make a separate Resolve project for every day of Dailies...is that what you are asking? The ability for Resolve to find the source material isn't really dependant on where the dailies were originally created. I do find it much easier to create all your dailes in 1 Resolve project, separated out by bins and timelines per shoot date and camera name. (Cam1, Cam2 etc) Putting all your footage in 1 resolve project might seem bloated, but I would argue that on a 30 day shoot, 30 different resolve projects is far more bloated and confusing. Trying to find a shot based on what day it was shot on, and then finding that project seems a bit counter intuitive to me. Keeping all the footage together in 1 dailes bin will make any trip back far easier. Yes, you can certainly do a media conform from an AAF without having any media in the project to begin with, but i usually find it far easier to just store the media in a project, and have it ready to go when needed. In the case of the colour house not having the dailies drp, then I (as the colour house) would be just as likely to bring in all the media first, than do the aaf conform to that media. I have done it the other way as well, where I tell resolve to search for the media, but i always seem to be missing a shot or two along the way. Again, having all the media in a project doesn't seem bloated to me...i don't find resolve slows down because of the amount of media in a project. If that media was spread out over 30 hard drives...when that is a different issue. As for file naming, i actually used to use a custom naming convention for R3ds...honestly havent used Red for a while...i'd have to check some old notes. As with any workflow best answer is do a full roundtrip test, and see if the proper information shows up in Avid, and then comes back. Part of the problem sometimes is the amount of digits allowed through some of the other naming conventions, or the possibility of split clips can also cause an issue. I find file name pretty rock solid, but not saying the other method wouldn't work.

[@christianrushpostpro]

@@tvtech4688 that all makes sense to me. using a copy of the dailies project for online/upres and color would probably make the organization and process pretty easy.