How to Send a Premiere Timeline to Resolve & Fix XML Issues

HOW TO FIX PROBLEMS WITH XMLs - EASY! Use the timestamps to get past beginners stuff if you know what you are doing. How to send a timeline from Premiere to DaVinci Resolve for Grading Beginners to Intermediate - there is something for everyone in this and absolute beginners will also be able to follow. For best results, stop editing in Adobe Premiere and use DaVinci Resolve!!!!! Conforming made EASY. This also works if you are exporting to Flame, Smoke, Nuke and a lot of major compositing and editing software.

00:00 Intro
00:22 Exporting a timeline from Premiere to Resolve **Absolute Beginners**
05:36 Scale or Set frame size in Premiere
08:30 Resolve scaling settings
09:10 Advanced timeline and XMLs
12:05 Exporting Reference Sequence
12:43 Importing to DaVinci Resolve
13:42 Adjusting scaling in Resolve
14:18 Importing the Reference File
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[JimRobinson-colors]

Well, I think this is your best episode yet. I watched the first bit and was thinking "Where is the offline reference footage". You have raised the bar so high, that us mere mortals will have to work a lot harder to come anywhere near your tutorials.
My only advice ( and you knew this was coming ) is that for the work I have done in the past, rarely do I have to do the whole thing like you have done here. But I do understand that a lot of people will be doing just that. In a lot of cases, I have had ametaur editors that have done the Premiere part of this puzzle and I have had to make screencasts and type out what I needed on their end.
So my advice is to take this video and cut a version for your subs to link to Premiere editors, showing what is required to make things easier. They might not watch a whole end to end video if they aren't interested in the steps in Resolve. But I know that it would have been a great resource for me in the past to link to a video ( like yours ) showing the steps that you have here to get the prep that would make the whole thing smoother from the get go.
I had to do the same with Final Cut Pro as well. It seemed that the xml from FCP had media offline because the xml had absolute paths to all the media. It was the way the client had it set up. Luckily I have FCP and figured it out on my end - Then as I mentioned with the Premiere hobbyist export, I had to do a step by step for FCP as well.
Anyway, this video is really well thought out and executed. I envy your abilities in presentation of the information. Another great job. Now take a break for a few days and relax. -Cheers.

[vickthorsgraphix]

This is by far the best tutor on XML I've watch on Youtube

[barrybebenek]

I use Resolve in my job everyday, and the XML importing is what I’m learning right now. This video is priceless to me. Thank you. 🇨🇦👍🏼

[svenhegenmusic]

small addition to the offline reference. Once imported and linked with the timeline you can hit Ctrl + W to toggle the reference in the timeline viewer. By default it's set to a horizontal wipe, but it's always great to check resizes, dissolves and retime effects in difference mode. Note that video compression (of the ref file) will have a subtile effect on that, but in gerenal you can guarantee the best results by checking in difference mode.

also a side note on ref files. Sometimes with certain codecs or mismatches, the timecode can get mixed up, therefore timeline and ref file won't be in sync. To fix this, go to your ref files Clip Attributes and fix the clip timecode.

[saifaranya]

No tutorial on this topic went that deep until today. You are a true master of tutorials.

[uwewrobel]

Darren! You saved my life. I had always problems with resized clips from Premiere in DaVinci. You are my hero! Thanx a lot and greetings from Munich, Germany

[BruceMoyle]

Smashed it again. The offline reference is killer tip.

[Zakria_Khan]

This is a life saving video for many editors. Thank-you so much sir, definitely subscribing and referring this channel to my friends.

[WonderFilm]

This was PERFECT! Found all the questions I had with the xml. Cheers.

[pitmanfilms]

I am new to transferring a project into Da Vinci - most users can confirm it is no easy transition. Thanks for such a clear video which is informative and also tackles the common issues that the software often bring up.

[martialartsgreatness]

Absolutely love your work!!! Thanks so much for creating such amazing tutorials to help make me a better editor!

[fahadmirza]

Awesome video Darren, I don't think anyone has explained this long overdue topic in such a detail, hope you decide to make a masterclass someday so we could learn even more and you could directly benefit as well

[yanduraphotography]

Best Colourist on YouTube hands down! This helps a ton. I primarily work in Premiere and wanted more flexibility in grading.

[Sheriffovic]

This is so nice feeling to find an industry level trainings thank you!

[ratabrother]

This is by far de best content in YouTube 'bout Resolve, thanks a lot

[ericmacey]

Thank you so, so very much for this detailed explanation. You've saved me hours of troubleshooting and exporting and reimporting and adjusting sizing manually. Cheers

[kahiraw]

This is such a premium tutorial. Thank you so much.

[OutwardElementStudio]

Really well done video. Answered all my questions. **NOTE** If you change a clips time via right click and 'reverse time' it will NOT carry over correctly. For these clips I baked individually, then did XML

[TimetoTalkwithYevgen]

Thank you for sharing lesson beginners bound! Excellent!

[harrisonneville]

Thank you. I've been finding solutions to work with multiple resolution footages for quite awhile while importing projects from Premiere to Resolve.