Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel - Manual (Page 131)

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Effects Processing When Finishing in DaVinci Resolve
When you’re outputting to tape, rendering a QuickTime master of your project, or rendering a DPX
image sequence for film output, all supported effects are rendered by Resolve and “baked” into the
output media.
Unsupported effects are completely ignored, cannot be seen, and have no effect on media that’s
rendered and output. If there is an unsupported effect applied to a clip in your NLE of choice that you
want to move into DaVinci Resolve, for example a pan and scan effect that’s applied to a still image file,
here’s a simple workflow to follow.
To “bake” an effect into a clip you’re sending to DaVinci Resolve:
1. Export that clip as a self-contained media file using whatever Resolve-compatible
mastering codec you prefer.
2. Reimport the resulting media file into your project.
3. Edit it into the sequence to replace the original effects clip.
4. Export an XML version of the resulting sequence for use in Resolve.
This is a good way of prepping the titles and effects of projects that you want to finish in DaVinci
Resolve. If you create self-contained QuickTime movies of all title clips and effects, then these elements
will import cleanly and easily, and you can export a complete, texted version of your program out
of Resolve.
Here’s another tip. If a superimposed clip is using unsupported effects, for example, a filtered still image
with pan and scan effects that’s superimposed using the Overlay composite mode and set to 70%
opacity, an ideal way to prep this clip for XML export to Resolve is to set the composite mode to
Normal, set Opacity to 100%, and then export the resulting clip as a self-contained QuickTime movie.
Reimport the result, edit it back into the timeline to replace the original superimposed clip, and then
set its composite mode to Overlay and its Opacity to 70% to match the original settings. Now the
unsupported effects are “baked” into the clip, but the effects that Resolve does support are still live, and
can be readjusted in context while grading.
Effects Processing in Round-Trip Workflows
In workflows where you want to send a project back to an NLE after grading for final finishing, adding
titles and other effects before to final delivery, Resolve handles different effects in different ways.
Unsupported effects do not appear in Resolve. However, the effects data is preserved, invisibly, and
when you export an XML file to send back to Final Cut Pro, the effects all reappear, this time applied to
the color corrected media that you rendered out of DaVinci Resolve.