Resolve - Final Conform and Color Correction Project Setup - Import .aaf and Quicktime Exported from AVID Media Composer

To Bring into Resolve – Launch Resolve Application
Log in as a guest

Title the project – click Create
Double click the project to load it
Set your Video I/O Go to DaVinci Resolve>Preferences
Choose the Video I/O and GPU Choose Intensity Shuttle Thunderbolt
Or Choose Intensity Extreme depending what suite or lab you are using
Change the Control Panels to the Tangent Devices Wave or AVID Artist Color if one is connected 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 Save
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

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 4K Red files are 4480 x 1920 but check the raw .r3d file Choose either the DaVinci YRGB or the DaVinci ACES color science. For Red Footage you may see more detail in ACES.
Click "Save" to apply the settings Close the Preferences window
Click on the "Edit" tab at the bottom of the screen on the "navigation" bar
>File>Import AAF, EDL, XML
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 Search for the folder containing the .mxf
Navigate to the folder and click OK
Second option is to add the media to the resolve project first
Load your media into the media pool> Navigate to the folder containing the media and select Add Folder to Media Pool
>File>Import AAF, EDL, XML
Select the .aaf to import
If you already added your files to the Media Pool then choose to deselect Automatically set project settings and Automatically import source clips into media pool Hopefully you will link all the media with out a problem the following is some troubleshooting tips. . .
Example here of problems with some of the clips
To view what is missing easier click on the "Color" tab
Then click on the "Light Box View"
Here we can see what is missing easier. Here we are only missing one thing. I'ts probably a still image or something that wasn't from the camera original?
You can right click to see clip info
Clip info

The Next Steps will Explain how to import the Reference QuickTime into the Resolve Project
Resolve – Media Tab > Go the the Library navigate to the folder containing the quicktime and right click it
In Resolve 10 right click and choose "Add as Offline Clip"

right click it and choose add as Offline Reference Clip

Go to the Edit tab and

Go to the AAF Resolve timeline
>Right click on the timeline and
>Choose Link Offline Reference Clip
>Choose the QuickTime that you exported

Go to the source window in conform view and choose to display the "Offline" by selecting the checkerboard icon.

This should show the reference "ganged" up with the timeline.

If you click the Up and Down arrows you will navigate the timeline and the reference clip will follow exact picture match.

Note if you can not see Video on the Large Color Correction Monitor go through the following steps