Use this workflow to transcode or convert Blackmagic Cinema DMG, XAVC, XAVC s, and XAVC HD footage shot with the Sony A7s,
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and A7r, Sony FDR-AX100 and other prosumer cameras
Launch Resolve Application | |
Click the "New Project" button in the lower left corner to create a new project | |
Title the project – click Create | |
Double click the project to load it | |
Set your Video I/O | |
Choose the Video I/O and GPU Choose Intensity Shuttle Thunderbolt if available. | |
Or Choose Intensity Extreme depending what suite or lab you are using | |
Note these features are only available in CMB 4.112 Graduate Hallway, CMB 4.120 Undergraduate Edit Suite and CMB 1st floor suites. If you are not in these rooms you will not see the Intensity devices as a choice for input and output to the exturnal monitor. Your preferences will look like this. | |
Change the Control Panels to the Tangent Devices Wave or AVID Artist Color if one is connected. If not then choose None. Click Save to apply changes | |
Unfortunately you have to restart Davinci to load the preferences. | |
Quit the program and choose to save then reopen using the steps above. | |
Set up some Project Settings. Click on the Project Settings Icon in the lower right corner of the screen | |
Go to "Autosave" and turn it on saving every 10 min | |
Click on Capture and Playback and choose> Video Capture and Playback HD 1080PsF 23.976 | |
Click on Master Project Settings > Change the Timeline Resolution>playback frame rate to 23.976 Change Playback frame rate to 23.976
Video Monitoring choose HD 1080PsF 23.976
Choose Save to apply these preferences | |
Now load your media into the media pool> | |
Create a Timeline | |
Go to >File>New Timeline | |
Name it | |
Select all the files in the Media Pool that you want to use | |
Add a LUT to them or not. To add a LUT right click on the clip or clips. | |
Note if you are transcoding A7s footage and want it to have that film look the best LUT to use is the 3D LUT > Arri > Arri Alexa LogC to Rec709 | |
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The go to the Deliver tab | |
Choose to Render the Entire Timeline | |
Click on Render Settings> and use the slider to navigate to the AVID AAF tab | |
Click on Browse to select the hard drive and folder you want to render to | |
Navigate to the hard drive and you can choose to Add a new folder if needed | |
Name your new folder and click OK | |
Make sure you select the newly created folder and click OK | |
Choose Video Format MXF OP-Atom
Codec DNxHD 1080p 36 8-bit if you are doing a offline or proxy version of the media. | |
If you don't want to return to resolve and do an "Online and or Conform" then choose a codec that you can deliver for screening and distribution. Choose Video Format MXF OP-Atom
Codec DNxHD 1080p 220/185/175 10-bit
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Click on the Audio tab Check the box for "Export Audio" if you want to export Audio Do NOT choose "Same As Source" for the Channels drop down. (your audio will come out as static)
Make sure to choose 2 for the Channels drop down.
Codec = Linear PCM Channels = 2 Bit Depth = 16 Tracks = One per channel (if your audio still comes out as static, try changing the bit depth to 24) | |
Click on Add to Render Queue | |
Choose to Start Render once the Job has been added to the Render Queue | |
Job has completed. The files need to be added to AVID MediFiles Folder
Quit Resolve>Save the project. Make a backup of the project and save it for the final color correction and conform. See this workflow for making a backup. DaVinci Resolve - How to Save a Copy of a Project and Relink to Media on a Different Hard Drive | |
In Finder on the Mac
Copy or Move the .mxf files to the AVID MediaFiles>MXF>1 folder
This is so AVID can see the files when the .aaf file is imported. | |
TO COPY FILES OVER TO SHARED STORAGE LIKE EditShare or AVID ISIS Servers use this workflow | AVID - ISIS 5500 Server - Media Management |
Once the files are copied over Launch AVID | |
Make a new AVID Project or use an Existing one | |
Make a New Bin | |
Title the new bin "My XAVC Transcoded Footage" | |
Go to >File>Import | |
Navigate to the .aaf file in the Resolve exported media folder and select it. | |
The clips and the timeline will import into AVID. They should be linked to the transcoded media.
Edit the files in AVID developing a picture locked sequence that you can then export out of AVID back into Resolve.
See this wiki for AVID .AAF export to Resolve. Option #1 Option #2 AVID – Relinking to Native files for .aaf and QuickTime export to Davinci Resolve
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