resolve roundtrip rebuilding...

Hey All-

I've searched these forums for about 20 minutes but haven't turned up what I need.

My situation is this; I've just gotten back my first color corrected piece from a colorist and imported the XML, which in turn seems to have imported all the Prores 4444 davinci files. Correction seems to look as it should on the project/timeline that I prepared for him.

BUT; The colorist made me strip all titles, subtitles, most dissolves and maybe some audio (the sound design on this video has many elements so it's hard to tell.) I had duplicated my final edit and then deleted all the elements above for his Resolve work. Now how do I get the pre-stripped sequences to have the new color corrected files swap in? Is there a way to automatically do this? Or is it making compound clips and copying and pasting and hmm and hawing... oy! A fair amount of titles, motion and audio in this one...

Any tips greatly appreciated. I've got a couple emails in to the colorist but no response yet.

Duplicate the original, delete all the video files, select all, copy, go to your new project, paste. I'm sure there's a better way, though.

That would work only most of the stuff is connected clips to the video. So that wouldn't keep the timing of subtitles connected to video would it?

I'll keep you posted. Fingers crossed this colorist will sort me out soon...

Can you use Roles to copy and paste the needed elements into the new timeline?

What Ben suggested will work if you use this trick:

1. Make a gap clip that spans the length from beginning of project to first connected clip.
2. Delete all the video that's been corrected (so it leaves gap clip)
3. Select everything and make a compound clip
4. Copy the Compound Clip
5. Go to the beginning of your Color Corrected Project and Paste
6. Break Compound Clip Apart (Shift, Commnad, G)

Thanks Scott (and Mark too!)

Yeah so basically a gap clip that I can shift + move each connected clip to the same timecode on the connected clip and then use that as the vehicle to keep the "sync" of dozens of connected clips...

Crossing my fingers that this is going to go smoothly...

Zismation wrote: That would work only most of the stuff is connected clips to the video. So that wouldn't keep the timing of subtitles connected to video would it?

I'll keep you posted. Fingers crossed this colorist will sort me out soon...

Do you just have subtitles as connected titles? Why wouldn't that work? If you, say, use the timeline index to select all your graphics/titles and then copy and paste them onto a timeline with your color corrected clips, it would keep the same timing. I would rest the playhead on the beginning of the first graphic/title when you copy, and then put it on the exact frame in the other timeline when you paste.

I don't think it would work as the subtitles, titles, etc. are connected/on top of the video clips, which are on the base layer of the timeline. Selecting the video and deleting it would also blow away whatever it's connected to right?

I'm not so experienced with the timeline index so I'm not understanding how selecing them in the index will allow pasting at the correct time in the corrected timeline. I'm not saying it's not possible; I'm just saying I don't have a clear idea of what you're suggesting. You're saying the index works as a way of aligning matching stuff down to the frame, manually, shot by shot? That helps but it's still a headache, if that's what you mean.

Everything you stick on top of a clip is connected to the primary storyline at some point. And yes, if you select multiple titles in a timeline and then paste them into another timeline, it does keep the timing (it will attach them to whatever is underneath).

Also, if you select a clip in the primary and press the delete key (NOT backspace), it will simply be replaced with fill. It does not delete whatever was connected to it. Remember, there are two kinds of delete. You should experiment it with them.

The timeline index is just another way of selecting things without actually lassoing or clicking them on the timeline. Like I said, copying and pasting multiple clips will keep their timing. Have you not tried it? To be safe, you should be doing this on duped timelines so you don't mess anything up.