How to EASILY Import to Resolve for Newbies [No XML needed]

This SIMPLE workflow on how to easily import from ANY NLE to DaVinci Resolve for Newbies! 100% Works every time! Use the timestamps as always if you know what you are doing. How to send a timeline from Premiere, AVID, FCP or any NLE to DaVinci Resolve for Grading - absolute beginners will also be able to follow. Conforming made EASY.

00:00 Intro
00:40 Analysing the sequence before preparation
02:40 Preparing for the EDL
05:18 Exporting for Grade
06:59 Exporting XML (Final Cut Pro X users only)*
07:22 Why use this workflow v XML workflow?
09:55 Importing the file to DaVinci Resolve
14:21 How does it work?
15:54 Dissolves
17:28 How to make an EDL from FCPX
19:10 Export timeline and online
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[hunter]

This class by Darren Mostyn is equivalent to "MIT Media Lab Class". The text on the left and right adds extra flavor. Very professionally presented new useful information on EDL. Thanks again ! Have a LOVELY day !

[REMVPS]

Good to see you back Darren. As always, to the point and very clear. Thank you!

[soumadeepdey]

Thank you so much!🙏🙏🙏 You saved my hairs from being pulled out. I've been trying to round trip my multicam edit, but since they were not original resolve couldn't detect.
You are doing an fabulous job man!
The concepts are so well explained in detail, that now I understand everything step.

[martinclay]

Damn he's good. These tutorials are fantastic, even topics I know nothing about are put before me in such a clear and concise manner than I can't fail to understand by the end. Thanks for the work you put into these videos Darren.

[JoelPurnell]

Great info as always! That FCPX workaround is genius. Thank you so much! You’ve extended my lunch breaks.

[imaged]

Hi Darren, thanks for another incredible episode, really useful.

Hope the house move went smoothly without any hiccups

Thanks again Darren and welcome back

[gabrielmfilmes]

Thank you very much for this explain, I wasn't get to searching a tutorial like this on youtube, I aprecciate this

[peteuk]

Err. This class is just class! Thanks so much Darren!

[MateoToro]

OMG YOU JUST SAVED MY LIFE AS Final Cut Pro USER been trying to figure this out for months lol thank you!

[indiefilmmakerjr]

Thank you for your comprehensive coverage I appreciate very much Darren
I'd like to use the DaVinci Resolve for stabilizing only.

How different I need to do it from Premiere 22.5 to Davinci Resolve 18 Beta 6 please

and what precautions I should take into account such as:

-do only these edits in Premiere
-then stabilize in DaVinci
-then how to continue editing in Premiere please
all the best

[siddharthgundawar]

The way you explain things in a nutshell is just marvelous! This is pure gold! A bit overwhelming though as I have just started using Resolve. I am really struggling with the entire roundabout trip being a newbie. I have made my primary edit in Davinci and I need a small chunk of it to be edited in a specific manner by a different editor who uses FCPX(the ins and outs have been already marked by me though. He is just going to line them up, use certain transitions, some speed ramping, probably use some effects and scale the footage). What's the best possible way to go about this as the transitions the other editor is going to use are going to be FCPX specific which won't translate back when I open the xml file in Davinci once he is done. I wish to retain all the information and changes he does in FCPX. Colour and audio isn't a problem as it's going to be handled in Davinci before exporting. Thanks a ton for this video. It would really mean a lot if you could help me out with this. Peace and love from India! :)

[JimRobinson-colors]

Really informative Darren. I am not sure why you have it as a Beginner ( newbie ) seems like at minimum an intermediate level in my opinion. I haven't used an EDL in a long time and it was a refresher for me. I know you mentioned the the Scene Cut detection. Last few times I used that, it worked flawlessly, but didn't handle the transitions as gracefully. The problem I have had with the level of editors that a lot of stuff comes to me is that it is a lot more work to get them educated to make the edl than it is to do a scene cut detect.
So my advice to people watching this as colorists is to use the "Save" on this ( or bookmark it ) and send this video to an editor to explain what you as a colorist expects from them.
Not sure if you have covered Scene Detect - but if you haven't that might be an idea to do, so you can point to it, when you reference it in the video. A new user may have no idea what that is.
Good to see back, Cheers.

[piyush]

Hi! Darren, you are doing a fabulous work here. Just a suggestion please make your videos in at least 2k resolution so that we can see the whole interface more clearly. Appreciate your work! 👍😎

[nirinaratsisompatrarivo]

Hello Darren, very informative video thank you! But it would be nice to see concretely what happens when importing the color graded file to premiere, and re-enabling effects and titles. I am wondering if there are tips and tricks to reduce the workload for the editors as they reconform the file on Premiere

[CGKALLDAYx]

Thank you this video was so damn helpful

[biswajitchoudhury]

Epic editing pipeline season for beginners

[phixpowerbook]

Don't get me wrong. Darren rocks and is by far the best Resolve tutor on YT

[emilycohan]

Thanks for the info. When I export the EDL into Resolve following these steps in a small project... some of the cuts are missing and most of them don't actually match the cut points in premiere. *shrug* The cuts seem to be off by a half second to a few seconds.

[thomasstanley]

Great tutorial and love the channel in general. Just one point, when you removed Lumetri, you had all the other parameters ticked which could erase any motion, opacity, scale etc on the clips themselves.

[smepable]

Thanks you so much for this! ...EASY Workflow 20mins Tutorial haha