Conforming Epic Timeline from Premiere Pro to Resolve

[Matt W.]

Hi, I am grading a short shot on Epic in Resolve and am having trouble with the round trip with Premiere Pro. The director edited .r3ds natively and gave me a timeline (with time warps and effects removed as per my request) as an .XML file, exported in FCP X XML format as per the instructions on Black Magic's site. I point Resolve to the footage directory but I cannot make the conform process work.

Basically, 95% or more of the footage shows up exactly as it should, proper everything. The other clips are just missing (blank red X marks in the timeline, da Vinci lists nothing for them in the conform window (no file name, no timecode, no anything). I have seem problems with Resolve before, but not this problem. This is my first go with the program on my own so it could very well be normal.

How do I reconnect this footage? Do I need to go back to Premiere Pro (which I don't have, but I can download the demo) or possibly FCP7 or FCPX to construct a proper timeline or is there a simple reconnect process (ideally timecode-based)?

Thanks!

 

[Rohit Gupta]

On the conform page, if you move the timeline over the missing Red Cross, you can see the timecode it is looking for in the left two columns of the EDL widget (bottom left). Now, go the media pool, and see if you can find these clips by sorting based on source timecode.

Red files have two timecode types, and maybe a few files used the other timecode type - just a guess!