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To Bring into Resolve – Launch Resolve Application | ||
Title the project – click Create | ||
Double click the project to load it | ||
Set your Video I/O Go to DaVinci Resolve>Preferences | ||
This step is for computer setup and output to a Calibrated MONITOR if you don't have a monitor connected you should move to a station in CMB 4.120 or the Grad Hall CMB 4.112Choose the Video I/O and GPU Choose Intensity Shuttle Thunderbolt | ||
Choose the Video I/O and GPU Choose Intensity Shuttle Thunderbolt Audio I/O choose Desktop Video | ||
Or Choose Intensity Extreme depending what suite or lab you are using Audio I/O choose Desktop Video | ||
Change the Control Panels to the Tangent Devices Wave or AVID Artist Color if one is connected Click Save to apply changes Audio I/O choose Desktop Video | ||
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 Project Settings. Click on the Project Settings Icon in the lower right corner of the screen | ||
LITE/FREE version of Resolve Click on Master Project Settings > Set Timeline Format Timeline Resolution for the LITE/FREE version of Resolve 3840 x 2160 Ultra HD Video Monitoring Video Format UHD 2160 23.976 Choose Save to apply these preferences | PAID Full Verion of Resolve | |
Click on Master 4K Settings!!Project Settings>Master Project Settings Set Timeline FormatTimelineresolution - Choose 4096 x 2160 DCIVideo Monitoring -Video Format- Choose 4K 2160p 23.976Choose Save to apply these preferences | Master Project Settings generally will want your timeline resolution at 1920 x 1080 but if you have 2K footage and want to scale up then choose 2048 x 1080 or 2048 x 1024 ||
2K Settings!!Project Settings>Master Project Settings Timeline FormatTimeline resolution - Choose 2048 x 1152 2K 16:9Video Monitoring -Video Format - Choose 2K 1080p 23.976 | ||
Next click on Color Management Color science - DaVinci YRGB Timeline Color Space Set to Rec709 Gamma 2.4 |
Click "Save" to apply the settings | |||
Click on the "Edit" tab at the bottom of the screen on the "navigation" bar | |||
>File>Import Timeline>Import AAF, EDL, XML | >File>Import>Timeline... find the .aaf | ||
Select the .aaf to import | |||
Keep the default settings if you would like to guide Resolve to the files to bring into the media pool. See later in this document for adding media prior to importing into Resolve. | |||
Select Yes | |||
Navigate to the folder and click OK | |||
Second option is to add the media to the resolve project first - Go to Media Tab in Resolve | |||
Load your media into the media pool> | >File>Import AAF, EDL, XML | ||
File>Import>Timeline | |||
Select the .aaf to import | |||
If you already added your files to the Media Pool then choose to deselect: Hopefully you will link all the media with out a problem if you have difficulty talk to a proctor and have them Call help desk or come to CMA 3.104 | |||
These were the errors we got in our test but it's usually a title or something not needed > See this Title It's offline and that is okay. | |||
The Next Steps will Explain how to import the Reference QuickTime into the Resolve Project Resolve – Click on Media Tab > | |||
>Go the | the Media Storage >navigate to the folder containing the quicktime and select it | ||
Right Click the QuickTime >Add as Offline Reference Clip | |||
Go to the Edit tab | and|||
Go to your Media Pool | |||
Locate the Timeline in your Media Pool It will have a "timeline" icon in the lower left corner as shown here | |||
Right click on the timeline and | >Choose Timelines >Link Offline Reference Clip | ||
Go back to the timeline On the source side select the >Offline choice in the Dropdown | |||
Go to the source window in conform view and choose to display the "Offline" by selecting the checkerboard icon.
If you click the Up and Down arrows you will navigate the timeline and the reference clip will follow exact picture match. See this wiki for Resolve Media Management for delivery Davinci Resolve - Media Manage Timeline - Trimmed Export Workflow |