Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel - Manual (Page 111)

CHAPTER CONFORM
CONFORM 111
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Overview of the Conform Page
The Conform page is where you import edited projects from other applications via EDL, AAF, or XML.
This edited project data is used to arrange the clips in the Media Pool into the session that constitutes
the program you’re grading.
While some project formats make it possible to import a project’s referenced media at the same time
as its edit data, it’s important to understand that the Resolve database organizes an edited timeline and
the media it uses separately. This makes it possible to import multiple versions of a project using several
EDL, AAF, or XML files, with the result being a Resolve project with multiple timelines (referred to as
sessions), each having a differently edited arrangement of the same media.
Additionally, in Source mode the Conform page enables you to perform simple editorial functions that
are useful for making the small alterations that grading sometimes requires, such as replacing media,
splitting clips, adding transitions, or changing the composite modes of superimposed clips.
Finally, in Offline mode the Conform page can be used for loading an offline clip, which is useful both for
confirming that the imported project in fact matches the original project as output from the NLE, and
for comparing the new color adjustments and geometric transforms that you’re making against offline
effects that were made during editorial.
This chapter covers different ways of working within the Conform page, including workflows for project
import, editorial, and offline comparison. Keep in mind that many of the commands in the conform screen
are found within the contextual menus that appear when you Right-click various items and objects.
Tip: You can resize the height of the Media Pool, Timeline Managment, and Conform EDL lists by
dragging the border between them up and down.
An imported project shown in the Conform page. Its media appears in the Media Pool, the edit appears as a
session in the Timeline Management list, and the edited project appears in the Timeline.