Premiere to Davinci or Speedgrade workflow

[Jesse Rambis]

Hey guys, I wanted to see what you guys preferred when it came to CC/CG programs, Davinci or Speedgrade. I wanted something a little more advanced then doing all my CC/CG in Premiere or AE, so I was looking at these two programs. I noticed that there seems to be little workflow issues with both programs, and I wanted to see how you guys were taking sequences within premiere (with scaling and speed ramping/speed changes, which seems to be a problem with these programs) into either Davinci or Speedgrade. My simple mind would render out the sequence as a DPX or something like that then just bring it into Davinci or Speedgrade, but I feel like that has downsides of less quality (or is this a decent option)? Any help is appreciated, I am very new to RAW workflow and more advanced color grading programs. Thanks in advance.

 

[Jean-Claude Benet]

You can use "send to speedgrade" from within premiere, or, you can export an edl to take into speedgrade. the ramping, titles, etc. won't come with it, but you can do an advanced color grade in there and finish from that point.

 

[Jesse Rambis]

So lets say I used the send to speedgrade option, how would you then get your ramp/scaling features back and render it out from there? All within speedgrade or render and bring it back into premiere and redo all the ramp/scaling?

 

[Oliver Peters]

"Send to SpeedGrade" renders a flat version of your Premiere timeline with all effects baked in. The sequence is rendered as an uncompressed DPX image sequence. So, this would include your ramps. These files are quite large and need a fast drive array for best performance. As an alternative, you could export your timeline in any compressed or uncompressed format with or without an EDL. Using this or simply the built-in scene detection functions, you can bring the exported file into either SpeedGrade or Resolve and the cuts would be restored for grading. None of these methods have handles, of course, since you are using a self-contained export of the edited sequence.

- Oliver

 

[Jesse Rambis]

Ah, I see, thank you very much I am learning a lot. What about just importing r3d files straight into davinci to do some grade testing? I can't seem to locate the files, it is as if Davinci Resolve can't see r3d files. Have you encountered this before?