Premiere Pro to Davinci Resolve workflow with R3Ds

[Jake Bastian]

I just got an email from Black Magic today saying that Resolve has been updated to work with Premiere Pro and FCP XMLs. However, the link it included sends you to a download for 8.0 which is still broken in a Premiere workflow. I found this work around on Tao of Color:

http://www.taoofcolor.com/545/investigative-colorist-why-is-the-premierepro-to-resolve-8-roundtrip-broken/

The problem being FCPs handling (or lack thereof) of R3D files. When you import an XML into FCP that includes references to R3Ds it breaks the edit. You can't relink to proxies (you can but it relinks improperly) and FCP doesn't recognize R3Ds. I edit R3Ds directly in Premiere to try and stay with the RAW for as long as possible and because it's fast.

Does anybody know of some alternative to the Premiere > FCP > Resolve > FCP > Premiere workflow that is working for you? I'd prefer not to do an offline edit that involves rendering R3Ds to some other format since that type of workflow wastes time and storage space, and because I'm working in Resolve that means I have Black Magic hardware which means Avid isn't an option either since Avid doesn't work with Black Magic cards right now.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Jeff Kilgroe]

FCP does not need to be involved. You can go Premiere > Resolve > Premiere.

You can use both the EDL export and round trip or FCP XML. FCP XML reports the version mismatch, but you can continue through it. Neither method is perfect, but they are workable.

[Jake Bastian]

Thanks for the help Jeff!

[Christopher Barrett]

The FCP XML doesn't work at all for me. The links get broken on almost every clip with Resolve often trying to relink totally different clips. EDL only gives you one Video track, right? Any other wisdom or news from Adobe on this front? It seems like XML 5 in PP would be the cure-all.

[Kaku Ito]

Try export XML from Premiere Pro and go through the Clipfinder FCP conforming?

[Jake Bastian]

I've noticed resolve doesn't like timelines that have clips with varying frame rates. I had an XML that was just wasn't working for me until I realized that it was 23.98 footage in a 29.97 timeline. I corrected that and had no more problems. Now I wait until after color correction to add pull down.

[Anson Fogel]

Any new news here? I have a premier project coming in in 2 weeks and need to run it through our Resolve. Am preparing a variety of workflow options...Jeff maybe you can chime in?

[Rob Ruffo]

I'm been knocking my head against the wall with the same question. If PPro could include tangent Wave support for its own color correction, and instigate a way to easily export off-lines to Resolve, we'd all have easier lives, and all other edit softs would instantly become ludicrously bad alternatives in comparison.