Help! Round trip issues Resolve > Premiere CC all clips jumbled!

[Al Lougher]

Hey all

So I've been grading a feature film for a couple of weeks and was just doing a final export (FCP round trip) out of Resolve back into Premiere CC '14, but when I import it lots of clips get repeated over and over, some are showing longer in the Premiere timeline but have that shaded graphic meaning the actual clip is shorter. It's basically a complete mess.

This is the process that was used for this project:


Edited RED R3D in 5K timeline in Premiere Pro CC 2014 (this was how it was done before I came on board).
Exported as Final Cut XML.
Imported XML into Resolve.
Graded.
Exported Round trip in Resolve with properties: Render timeline as individual clips, export audio, save as "use source filename" and render unique filenames unchecked.


Anyone any idea what's going on? I have a deadline to get this done in the next day or so to make a festival deadline and pulling my hair out.

Here's what I mean. The red arrows are the same clip repeated over, and it does this with random clips throughout the entire project.

Cheers!

 

[Marc Wielage]

Don't do this with a 1-day schedule. Do this kind of a thing a week before it's due.

Easiest workaround: do a single stringout (one flattened file) out of Resolve and bring that into Premiere for the final, adding credits and marrying sound as required.

Doing individual clips can work, but relinking can lead to issues under some cases.

 

[Al Lougher]

Thanks. Yeah that's what I ended up doing late last night. I was hoping the round trip would work better in case I had to go back and tweak some shots without re-rendering it all out again.

 

[Eric Santiago]

Dont use Premiere much these days but is there an option to add handles from Resolve?

Or maybe framerate change?

Sorry no where near a Resolve station at the moment.

 

[Joshua Lamb]

Use unique names.

Use unique names.

Unusually works better to create unique file names when exporting from DaVinci. I'll usually use the same name with a unique name tagged on the end. If you used different sections of a clip three times, DaVinci will render 3 individual clips of that shot each with the same name. When it does that, it will overwrite the previous clip it just made because you asked it to keep the same name. So you will end up with 1 small section of the original shot and it will then re link every instance of that shot to the same clip.

Try adding a unique name at the end with that checkbox. Should work after that.

 

[Al Lougher]

Unusually works better to create unique file names when exporting from DaVinci. I'll usually use the same name with a unique name tagged on the end. If you used different sections of a clip three times, DaVinci will render 3 individual clips of that shot each with the same name. When it does that, it will overwrite the previous clip it just made because you asked it to keep the same name. So you will end up with 1 small section of the original shot and it will then re link every instance of that shot to the same clip.

Try adding a unique name at the end with that checkbox. Should work after that.

Ah I wonder if that's what it was. I think I tried that late last night with a couple of clips and noticed it was naming some clips 0000000.mov which was weird but after googling this morning looks like Davinci has issues reading certain names for some reason so if it can't read it properly spits out the zero named file. Fun!