Colour Space Detective for Flat File Workflows – More Tips and Tricks

Wrangling key metadata information to enable colour management

As is often the case, there’s more than one way to achieve a goal, any goal, using DaVinici Resolve. A few months ago Patrick did a great Insight about using colour management on a project, even though he had no access to the original camera files. All he had were flattened transcodes to work from.

This was perfect timing for me as I was in a similar situation – I was working on a project for someone across the Atlantic, with no practical way to ship hundreds of gigabytes of camera files over to me. I had the additional problem of not knowing exactly what cameras had been used or what camera settings had been applied.

Joey followed up Patrick’s Insight with additional methods of ‘slicing and dicing’ rendered camera footage that has its metadata stripped from it by using EDL Clip Name on export from the non-linear editor. Both Patrick and Joey’s solutions allows you to use Resolve’s Preconformed EDL workflow to isolate the various camera files to enable color management practices.