Premiere Pro to Davinci Resolve 18 Color Grading Workflow (2023 EASY)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 พ.ย. 2022
- In this video, I go over how to transfer an adobe premiere project file to color it in DaVinci Resolve 18.
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This tutorial is gold. Straight to the point, short, easy to follow, clear. Just perfect for someone who's just start learning in Davinci and has a Premiere background. Thank you my brother!
Duuude, this was exactly what I needed! Short, concise and everything I needed! Cheers!
Glad you're uploading again. Good video as always, you really do it well in explaining the content in a way that is easy to understand.
Keep it up, good work.
Thank you it’s good to be uploading again. I appreciate the support!
Pretty straightforward, excellent video!
Now this is a tutorial. Straight to the point! appreciate you bro!
Dude! Thank you so much for the simple no BS videos.. 5 stars all day, I liked and subscribed.
Absolutely appreciate it
Thanks man - great content and no fluff. You nailed it. Thanks
This tutorial couldn't be anymore to the point. Thanks brother 🙏🏽
THANKS MAN REALLY HELPFUL!! 🔥
I always wondered how this works. thanks a lot !!
Thankyou so much, the best thing in this video is "it's short and precise" no long intro, blah blah stuff, keep up the good work brother.
AGREED, Straight no chaser... love it
THANK YOU! A freakin tutorial video that’s right to the point with no mindless chatter or advertising.
Great Vid! Simple and to the point! Thanks!
Perfect breakdown, thanks man!
Thank so much! You got a new subscriber
Keep doing what you do! I hope you won't stop at nothing!
Great tutorial man!
Still works in 2023. Much props brother.
Thank you 😊
Thank you!!! ⭐🙏🏽
Great tip
Subbed bro. Thank you
perfect 🔥
You literally saved my work time by 2 days literally
Thank you.
Straight to the goods with no dicking around. This guy really knows how to do it.
Great tutorial, curious if you could do one that gets more in depth into sending along source media with the XML from Premiere which would be a likely scenario when sending your project to a colourist. Your video is really helpful for someone working between Premiere and Resolve on the same machine but that isn't always the case for an editor to colourist workflow. Once again, great video!
This video is super well done. I felt like some dude from a hockey team got really good at video editing and was explaining something to me. Excellent info. Quality is ridiculous. What are you shooting these with?
Haha mad funny. Much appreciated. Just use a Sony a73 and got my Aputure 300 as a key light.
That's a great way to put it.. I love his style of teaching. Cuts the BS out and I can understand everything.
thanks for the tips, can u give some tips of color grading on davinci... thanks again sir
I fucking love you, great video!!! 🏆
1) is it a new timeline that you opened from the imported files?
2) Can you make further edits to the clips / audio as normal whilst retaining the grade?
Many thanks
This helped me out so much! I was really struggling to get the graded files back to Premiere, even though its so simple! Thanks!
I have a question though: If I start the project in Premiere, apply effects there and then move it to Resolve, is there a way to preserve the applied effects throughtout the whole process? For example, I applied warp stabilizer in premiere, then brought it to Davinci where it was no longer applied (I assume since its not the same effect there) and when bringing it back to Premiere the effect is still no longer applied.
While this makes sense, is there maybe a way to preserve these effects? A workaround I have would be to replace all the footage of the project with the exported graded footage, but I'm not sure if this might cause some other issues. Or I guess I would just need to organize my workflow around color grading first.
Thanks anyways! :)
Yeah so what I do is color and then add effects. You wont be able to transfer effects via xml but you could just export it as apple pro res and put it in resolve and finish it there.
At 41 seconds you say you don't know why they (Adobe) named it Final Cut Pro XML. There's a reason it's called Final Cut Pro XML... Apple designed the XML process for Final Cut Pro. It was used mostly when going from Apple's Final Cut Pro to Apple Color back in the day, but people quickly started using it for going to DaVinci Resolve since it was a better color grading program back then. Adobe simply adopted it to Premiere because they couldn't come up with a better protocol. They also did it so that people leaving Final Cut Pro 7 after the Final Cut Pro X debacle of 2011 could bring their FCP projects into Adobe Premiere Pro.
And, at this point Adobe is using an XML Process that is over a decade old. It's very outdated, but Adobe doesn't have interest in making something better because they'd rather you stay in Premiere and use the inferior Lumetri. They used to have Speedgrade, but that program was awful and there were also issues sending Premiere Pro timelines to Speedgrade. Throughout the 2012-2017 period I edited in Premiere I used DaVinci Resolve instead for my color grading work. This is in large part why I stopped editing in Premiere back in 2017 and fully embraced editing in DaVinci Resolve. I didn't have to waste time with round-tripping with XML in order to color grade my projects. I've been color grading in Resolve since 2010, when I was still using Final Cut Pro 7.
Now since DaVinci Resolve has become a far better editing platform. So I usually advise a lot of people to leave Adobe Premiere Pro and switch to Resolve. So many who make the switch are very happy. I cut out so many unnecessary steps by dropping PPro. I can edit and grade at the same time in Resolve. It's wonderful. So put Premiere where it belongs: the trash.
Thanks for the info makes a lot of sense 🙌🏽
I agree with switching over. Its been two years now.
I was just about to explain the XML thing to our younger generation who were not of those era 😃
This dude should be a magician because he just straight up made a tutorial on magic
so this almost worked for me!!! btw thank you!!
Issue: the clips that I have slowed down (60fps) are not slowed down in DaVinci resolve - what should I do?
Yeah sometimes that happens. How are you slowing the clip down?
Thanks for the tutorial. But I've got some problems.
When you open a timeline in Premiere Pro that has been graded in DaVinci Resolve, does the grading appear exactly the same? In my case, the colors I see in Premiere Pro are different from what I did in DaVinci Resolve. I put a lot of effort into grading, but seeing different colors is disappointing. I think that is because of some color space thing. Have you experienced this?
Great video. Quick one, does this workflow suit proxies made in Prem? So when it's time to export in Prem (or Resolve) will proxies be converted back to original specs / data?
So no the proxy is actually exported with it. In this process, what you'll have to do is unlink the proxies from the clips but once the new clips come into the timeline they are apple pro res so your computer should be fine running them as if they are proxies.
When i do the same steps in pc davinci doesn’t have prores do u know the equivalent of that? Thank u
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Hey I'm facing a problem after importing XML from davinci resolve back to premiere, could you please help me?🙏 some clips are either frozen in 1 frame or completely missing at the time-line, those clips are shown in a shadow like clip with slashes as seen in the Screenshot...
When I import the Adobe XML into DaVinci the audio desyncs. Any ideas? Thanks
nice.
Does anyone know how this affects key frames/transitions previously applied in Pr? I imagine they’re not baked in so best to wait till after grade to apply? Would be glad to be wrong!
After exporting like this, I what if I got a clip to adjust and change the scene after grading I cannot stretch the clip to make adjustments. How do I do it
ur a god dude
I had a problem, my timeline was imported with all the clips I used, but not my cuts. So my timeline is there with the full length of each clip. What can I do? :(
My Davinci export always comes out as individual clips. Any ideas on why that's happening instead of it coming out as a premier XML?
so last step just replace the footage with colored footage?
Are you able to edit the time line outside of color grading example scenerio would be making short from a podcast time line from premiere import into davinci
So yes, but what it would look like is importing back into premiere like in the video and then when you open the seq you can edit from there.
when i transfer back the import always stops at 97% with 9 or 12 seconds left, is there anyway to fix this ?
If I have done speed ramping and warp stabilisation effects in Premier already, will the effects remain when exporting to resolve to Color grade and then importing back ?
Hey! No the effects will not remain on the clip this is the downside to using resolve and premiere so you’ll have to switch your workflow to do effects afterwards
I already try this but when I import the all file are media offline and not match with the cut ;(
What if you're working with a bunch of transitions? Do I hold off on all of them until bringing it back from resolve? Or can I go ahead and edit with my transitions and then when it goes to resolve, it just won't load them? That's the big workflow thing I am trying to work out currently. Lots of of after effects transitions and linked files but wanting to color in Resolve
damnn need an answer to this
hey i did it same as u. but when im exporting the graded footage as an premiere file i have the xml plus all the singel files rendert with tones of gb. is this normal? is it possible to do this just with an graded davinci xml for premiere?
Yes this is normal you need all the clips rendered out because the xml is just a map of how the clips are placed not that actual clips itself. So you need the graded clips exported to map it to the xml.
Bro I have a question. Since it's not possible to export transitions back and forth, so I have cuts like in your example, but AFTER i Colorgrade and export graded clips from DaVinci back to premiere i will lose extra keyframes in this clips before and after cuts. And if i want to make a cross dissolve transition PR will say that repeated keyframes will be used... how to solve this?
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i have same question
fuck yessss.... thank you
While importing .XML into Davinci I have both boxes checked 1. Automatically Set project settings 2. Use sizing information but half of my clips are either zoomed out or zoomed in. They're not fitting into the Davnici timeline properly. What could be causing this or what would be a good work around? I used 4k & 6k clips in my premiere pro project and fit them to the project timeline but seems as if they aren't automatically fitting the timeline in Davinci.
I was having same problem, try going to Resolve settings and in Image Scaling tab, go to Mismatched resolution files and mark center crop 🙂
@@renatok98 For anybody else who finds themselves here with the same problem. I found this video that did a good job explaining the solution. th-cam.com/video/XfKpbfZBwOU/w-d-xo.html
Can you tell if this still works with effects applied in premiere like warp stabilizer or transitions?
No, you need to remove effects like warp stabilization before going to Resolve. But Resolve has a world class stabilizer in it. Consider I edit natively in Resolve now as well as doing all my grading in Resolve I use this stabilizer all the time. In fact I was using it over Premiere’s even when I was still using Premiere for editing.
As for transitions. It varies. Some don’t translate while others do. It’s advisable that you confirm with a reference export of your full movie and then use the reference video in Resolve to check against your imported timeline. If it didn’t translate then delete the transitions and export media with frame handles.
Alternatively you could just toss Premiere in the trash where it belongs and do your entire edit in Resolve now. There’s a reason so many are making the switch.
I would suggest putting effects on afterwards instead of before hand since it still messes some effects up going back and forth
anyone else having trouble when importing the timeline, davinci resolve popup says "clips were not found. do you want to select another folder to search?" but I choose the exact folder that the files are in and somehow davinci cannot find the files... any help?
mee too anyone can help?
i hv a problem after grading ,export to premier xml and done . no file xml. just clip video ?
So yeah it exports all the clips and connects it to the xml file if you can’t find the xml file you could just import all the clips but it won’t be in the sequence you want. Or just try exporting it again and make sure to export it to a location you can find in case it went somewhere else
resolve eating too much storage when i'm transferring back to premiere even my timeline is 1080p how to fix that?
Taking to much storage in terms of gpu or hard drive storage?
I just downloaded davinci so i don't really know much about it, but does this also work with the free version?
try it bro?
I’m having much problem with gpu in resolve and now I want to move all my project in premiere but there are many rendering in xml only . I’m confused what should I do?
Yes, so if you want to keep everything you have done in resolve you can follow the steps and export an XML file to premiere and use whatever codec you need whether h.264 (mp4) or h.265 (mov). long story short if you're not sure which one to use you can use the default that it puts it in for the XML file export.
@@dannymatthewsedit actually I’m unable to export in any way ! I have asus tuf gaming laptop..but still… lagvinci resolve is not even ready to get it at 1080 ..! Firstly I started with 4K and then it told gpu memory full try reducing no. Of correctors or resolution.
Therefore I was looking for Premiere & mainly after lagvinci shutdowns graphics of my laptop starts glitching and sometimes it gets so much hang that only option is there for me & that is only shut down .
@@indianytstars4500 Interesting Im guessing your computer is just not able to handle what you're doing. Maybe look at getting an upgrade to your laptop? If you can't get it out of resolve and into premiere you might just have to start over in premiere and look at doing proxies.
@@dannymatthewsedit okay sir , thank you 😊
I understand... but everytime my tem and I tried this the timeline messed up badly... same steps... we just resorted to do the entire thing in resolve
Gotcha just sometimes the effects or size of the image does not work and messes it up even with audio effects not good. Trying to develop a solution to this.
Hi, i seem to have a problem here. When I'm exporting back to .XML file from davinci resolve, it exports the entire clip individually together with the .XML file and the file size of the clips are abnormally HUGE, is this normal? For example, my original clip is only 320MB, it became 5GB after exporting from davinci resolve. It would be great if you could help me out with this, thanks!
So yes it’ll be normal to have a larger file size.
what you can do is if you’re trying to lower size on your project file you can delete the clip it replaces to save some space but don’t delete the clip you just imported because that has the grade.
You can also try changing the
automatic quality when exporting the xml file not the resolution but “quality” section. It’s not ideal but it’ll help with the file sizes.
@@dannymatthewsedit Okay, will give it a try. Thank you so much!
@@jia3439 for sure!
I just did some more research and the file export file when doing premiere XML export the codec for apple pro res changes the quality and data size the least amount of data as far as I know would be prores 422 LT and it holds high quality still
@@dannymatthewsedit So is there any option to change the codec export settings? I did some research as well i found out the bitrate is another problem.
Why does resolve not respect my cuts from PRemiere pro. I import it , and the clips ( have no transitions) start from where i don''t want them to start, either the ends middle, but not where i cut them in premiere. its so annoying. I tried 2018 version, 2022 version ..its the same problem. Is there a fix? THe point is , want to edit in premiere and grade in Resolve, but resolve doesn''t respect my cuts and its uselesssss.
Gotcha just to understand more. When you say transitions do you mean effects you have placed on them? Or are you just simply cutting?
@@dannymatthewsedit solved it. Thanks
I dit that we with braw footage. But it doesn't play in premiere pro
Do you have the plugin from black magic to play the footage?
Am I missing a step? All of my media is offline. I am following your steps, creating a new project, importing an XML file but everything is offline. I don't understand!
So when you create an xml file from premiere it resolve needs to find those clips. It may be confused on finding where the clips are so if you do the steps and then go to the clips and right click and delink you should be good to go.
I tried this, but it says that it can't find the video files. "7 out of 7 clips was not yet found" :(
and are the files in the same location and the name of the folder the same still? Or was it just not opening in resolve?
Same here... all clips are missing due to timecode issues. I don't know if its a Sony issue or such.
same here...
You need to link the footage in Resolve. Highlight all of the clips, right click, 'Relink selected media.' In the popup, you can just select the top level folder and Resolve will crawl through all of the folders to find it. If it missed any, say yes to the comprehensive search. It's a little slower but not bad.
not working anymore :(( I am doing the same thing just like a month ago but now once I open the timeline on davinci. davinci crashes..... is it my fault or is it that Adobe is not liking their xml to work on davinci anymore ?
anybody else is having issues now ? thanks a lot
Yeah, does not seem to work anymore.. just crashes
I'll look into this must be the update resolve has.
@@dannymatthewsedit its working again, don't know why... i am working on a long feature i guess the problem was caused by something on my side, thanks again
@@dfgoijoi odd okay cool glad to hear it!
I’m curious, can I just export my final copy from Resolve? I used premier to edit a film but it’s a really old computer and slowwww. Was hoping to just export a Final Cut from Resolve
Yeah you totally can. The only issue is any effects or anything like that will be removed transfer over to resolve so if you don't have anything like that you can just export from resolve to mp4, mov, etc
Does not work with windows.
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Is this lossless?
Yes. An xml is basically just a spreadsheet that tells the NLE where to place each clip and where to cut it. The actual source footage is relinked to the xml so it is whatever quality your source footage on your HD is.
The editing in Davinci is so bad, this is worth giving a try! The only good thing about Davinci is the color section haha
Haha dude right there with you never been a fan of the editing on it. The color is unlike anything else though so yeah try it out!
Why does it say media offline!?!?
Means the footage location is not where resolve thinks it was gonna be. So go ahead and re link it or make sure its in the same folder and hard drive as everything else and re do the conversion
There is no need to export back to Premiere, is there? Resolve can do everything and anything Premiere can do, only better.
Entirely up to you. You could finish out the project in resolve or just start it in resolve in the first place and not use premiere
Is it worth switching completely to resolve or is it better to use both premiere and resolve together?
@@johnscotland8382 Im actually going to make a video that will answer that question tomorrow
@@dannymatthewsedit look forward to it! I’m moving from Final Cut Pro and stuck deciding on going premiere pro or DaVinci. Great videos, like your style of tutorials.👍👍👍
@@johnscotland8382 Thank you! I appreciate that
ok now show us how you fix it when davinci totally misaligns the timeline you brought in lol. if you set up your timeline in premiere and have ANY mixed frame rates for slow mo, or speed ramp anything, don't do it before going into davinci. i've tried a hundred workarounds to get this done, and every single mf time we reimport back to premiere, it throws random things off a frame or two here and there and then it takes more time seeking out all the translation errors and fixing those little things than had i just graded in premiere. as someone who's done color for major brands, this is ANNOYING AF.
what we did at ralph luaren was just color grade in after effects for better consistent results and less headaches. but i need davinci now.
What if you export it as prores and color grade it there
what i've found to work the best is whatever i'm doing in premiere, before going to davinci with my xml, everythign has to be converted to match the frame rate. so if i have a 60fps clip that i slowed down correctly (modify>interpret footage>etc) it will most definitely throw that off. so it's better to export that shot in the frame rate i want it to match to, then replace it, if that makes sense. i keep a folder sep for the davinci grade, and edit that new timeline in premiere that way if i have to make any color changes, i can just go back into davinci and overwrite the new file davinci made with the updated one on export and allow it to update my premiere timeline. @@krayzeegaming
Bro I been looking for this forever but just gave up because the tutorials I found were overwhelming. Your the goat for this one 🫡