Resolve 9 lite help with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6??

[Donnie King]

My first time using Davinci to color grade and I love it!! What is the correct way to bring my graded rd3files back into Adobe Premiere CS6 for editing or is that not possible? If not do I render it out in a H264 codec at 1080p and if so then what is the best setting to maintain most of my quality? I'm a newbie so any advice would help. Thanks

 

[Timo Teravainen]

Hi, Donnie,

You can't bring them back as R3D, so render to a 10-bit format like DNxHD or Apple Prores if you're on Mac. That way you preserve a good quality. You can output a XML from Resolve, and import that to Premiere CS6. Do that after rendering the clips. Make sure you render separate clips, not a single quicktime clip.

Uncompressed is also possible, but it takes a lot of space, and you have to have fast disk array to view it in realtime.

My first time using Davinci to color grade and I love it!! What is the correct way to bring my graded rd3files back into Adobe Premiere CS6 for editing or is that not possible? If not do I render it out in a H264 codec at 1080p and if so then what is the best setting to maintain most of my quality? I'm a newbie so any advice would help. Thanks

 

[Donnie King]

Thanks Timo

 

[Donnie King]

Im using windows what format would you recommend?

 

[Timo Teravainen]

Im using windows what format would you recommend?

In that case DNxHD.

One thing that it's good to be aware of is the video/data levels when rendering. If you render with video levels (normally scaled legal video), Premiere doesn't interpret it as video levels footage, so the blacks look washed out and whites are not really white. I recommend rendering "unscaled full range data", it looks good in Premiere, and from Premiere you can render full or video when you output the project.