Welcome to another tutorial, this is Neil from Sliced Pictures and we're going to be
looking at basically how to set up your projects work in DaVinci Resolve. I know I've kind of
been through this a little bit in previous tutorial which was a bit longer, well it's quite long,
but this one's going to look at this project manager and project settings and also we're
going to look at how we can work with EDLXML from Premiere, this is Premiere CC, Premiere
version. So what's really important and very useful in initial startups with DaVinci is the
settings, getting the settings right so you know you've got no problems in the future. So obviously
we know we can see the time base here is 29.97 and 1920 by 1080. We can see the frame, there's
the sizes and all that, that's all good. So we know our frame rate, we know the source file is
also clicking on that, we can see that this frame rate is 29.97 and scroll down a little bit, we
can see it's 1920 by 1080. So we know the sequence is matching everything that our source file is
also got, yeah so everything is matching, this is our perfect sequence, perfect source files. So
we can go into the file and export, we can do a Final Cut Pro XML, let's call this Jazz2 just
because let's write that properly, Jazz2, there we go and save, doesn't take very long to do XMLs,
okay and this generally will come up usually because of some issues might have occurred,
but unless you've got filters and stuff attached to these clips then you shouldn't have any problem
when you're working with XMLs between Premiere and Final Cut and stuff like that. So let's jump
back into our project manager, so our project manager has default settings always when we open,
so if I open a new one called Jazz2, let's create our project, there's our Jazz2 1920 by 24, so we
can see that 24 frames has come up, this is the default setting, so if I open that we know that
they're not matching, so our frame rates are matching from what we're gonna use in our source
file and what we've got in our current project, what we can do with that is have a look at our
project settings, so our project settings and the most important one in our project settings is
our conform options, this is what is gonna work between our XML, our source file and DaVinci,
so just make sure that this one is matching and stick on the use drop frame timecode, embed the
source in the source clip, the timecode that's fine, you can also from the source clip frame
count whatever you want to choose, they're both fine, now I changed these purely just so then I
know all the settings are matching and everything, so we're good with that, our frame rate we can
just quickly change, we're happy with all of this, we're happy with 422 because we know that it's
ProRes, we'll go into here and change this to 1080p 29.97 and our conform is all good,
we'll hit apply, we can also look at our capture and playback, now I changed this just because I
like to have conformity across like everything, so I know it's all the same, 222, so 422 with our
UIV, so that's fine because we're using ProResolution 422 as our codec, put that back and so we hit
apply again, so now we should be all good when we go to look at our source files, so let's go
quickly and have a look at our source file, here's our guy, so again like make sure you
import all of those source files that you've already edited, anything that you haven't edited
and you're not going to use, don't worry about it, so now here's our clip, 1920, 1080, ProRes 422,
so the YUV422 is matching, frame rate is 29.97, if I look at my sequence settings and my conform
settings, 29.97, should be now when I import this into my media pool, nothing happens,
yeah that's basically nothing's happened because we've matched all the settings across the board,
which is very cool, if the settings don't match then what you would have to do is it would come
up with a kind of small little box about here, somewhere here and it would basically say projects
do not, you know your project setting does not match your clip setting, so do you want to change
it, it's up to you if you want to change it through that or you want to you know change it
manually like I do before you actually start importing your media, I would suggest you know set
it up and then you don't have to worry about it, you know itself and it's good to go, alright so
that is basically the media that I've got in Premiere, these are the clips that I've got in my
timeline, so obviously this is what I'm working with, so when I'm in here I've got these six
clips, when I'm in here I've got like six clips, so I can go into my edit and this is where I would
just go in and I would import my XML, my XML would be in here there's my XML, jazz2 XML,
we open that and this is also going to then tell us our information, sequence one was the name of
the timeline and that's what we're importing, 1920, 1080 and there's our frame rate 29.97 and we're
using this, obviously this is coming from Final Cut but we exported the XML from Premiere so it
doesn't make any real difference, so we hit okay, obviously I've got four of 22 clips were not yet
found, now if I look here there's a load of stuff I've got in my project folders, I've got a load
of clips here so I'm not worried so I don't really care and also the text, you see these text here
it's probably not recognizing these one two three four pieces of text because I haven't imported
those pieces of text which is fine, I don't want the text, I don't need the text so no I don't
want to search for it, there we go look see the text has failed to import which is fine,
don't care because it's text and there we go, so I've imported my XML this now matches with all
of my source files, my timecode matching and I'm all set up, I'm ready to go in terms of coloring
and grading, I know it's a bit boring to do this but if you get it right you know it just becomes
a habit to get it right so then now you would just you know you can start cracking on and color
correcting what you want to color correct and work with your clips and obviously if you've got any
power grades or stills or memories already loaded into your DaVinci setup from your in
your gallery here if your gallery works then it should come up and show you your power grade
options here obviously you know I can pull it in and then save a lot of time because I've already
graded this or because this is a different shot I can work with a new grade I can start one all on
my own alright that was just a really quick one check out the other tutorials they're on Vimeo
there's a couple on there so far I will be doing some more looking at particular styles so probably
not using this footage I might but I doubt it I'll probably use some other footage and also I will
look at some raw files as well soon so I'll be getting some red one or maybe some black
magic because this works obviously very well with black magic camera some raw files so we
can actually look at you know the raw information and how we can work with that which really is
fantastic DaVinci is really great for that so I will see you guys soon hope you enjoyed this
one check out everything else catch you guys later on
