Media Manage An XML For Color Correction (from client drives to your raid)

hi patrick! the first thing i would when confronted with so much clips sharing identical tcs is to activate taking account of the filename in the conforming process of the xml. to do this change the default conform options under master project settings to “assist using reel names from the: source clip filename. am i wrong?

Not only are you correct, you’ve just previewed Part 4—and this project is a perfect example of why that solution doesn’t work for me about 60% of the time 🙂 But yes, it’s the next step and should always be attempted before manually syncing up shots that don’t properly line up at the XML import stage.

sorry for spoiling :).

Before you import the XML, you may have to tweak reel name match pattern in conform settings to properly match the reel names and double check the reel name column updates on the media pool. Also I have found that if the clip has bad timecode resolve tends to ignore the use frame count option when matching.

You could use smart bins to quickly separate the proxies from the raw and uncheck the proxy bins on import.

That’s a terrific idea. On a bigger job, I’d do just that. Since this was only 8 folders, the grunt method seemed easier since it didn’t rely on me being ‘smart’ 🙂

It would be nice if Resolve let us know when its reverted to frame counting. If nothing else, it would help us better understand what it’s trying to do. Sometimes this stuff feels like 100% voodoo.

I had a project where they dragged all the r3ds into a timeline in red cine and exported the timeline as proxies with all new timecode based on the clips position in bogus red cine timeline. They edited the who project based on bad timecode. I could not get resolve to use the frame counts to save my life until I manually reset each clips timecode to 0 one at a time.

Nightmare. They need to take the keys away from our tools for people who don’t understand the downstream implications of their actions 😉

These are great!

Any idea of the ETA for part 4? Because I could really use the advice 🙂 Dealing with a very troublesome xml right now for a project.
It’s driving me nuts.

Heh. Yes. Over the next week I’ll be releasing a spate of Insights (I got behind due to the holiday and then a mega-job that crushed me). At least two of the Insights I’ll be releasing are in this series. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask here.

Fantastic, I’m looking forward to it. My troubles related to mixed formats shot on dslr with and without external recorder (framerates of 24, 23,97, 29,97) and timecode issues. Basically 29,97 footage was interpreted as 24fps in premiere, mixed with 24fps clips and 23,97fps clips which were not re-interpreted and all of it edited in a 24fps timeline. I ended up asking for a Prores export and went the scene detection route… Coud not get it to work but would like to be prepared for the future.