This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Round Trip back from Resolve Clips have Drop frame when source is Non D?

Monday, July 22, 2013

[Avid-L2] Round Trip back from Resolve Clips have Drop frame when source is Non D?

So I had a chance to test the round tripping of clips from Avid to Resolve and back. I've got it to work by creating a new Resolve project and first setting the Conform options in the Main settings tab from the bottom left gear menu to frame rate 29.97 and leaving the use drop frame check box unchecked. I then made another new project with that box checked and imported the same aaf and that project created drop frame avid media from the R3D sources that are actually non drop. I spoke briefly with the freelance colorist and he told me that in Resolve a project is either non drop or drop and once defined it can't be changed. Given that this setting seems to determine the time code format of the individual exported clips back to Avid it sounds like Resolve can't handle a sequence that has mixed time code format sources. Is this true? I seem to recall this was an issue about a year ago when I was playing at home. Can someone confirm or deny
this?

Now the real issue is the Resolve project that the main sequence was color corrected in is set to drop frame. Thus the clips exported back to Avid have the wrong drop frame time code and won't relink to the original sequence. I asked our freelance colorist if he could create a new Non Drop Resolve project and import his color corrected sequence into that project so we could round trip properly back to Avid but when he tried it wouldn't let him. I wasn't there when he tried but he is an experienced colorist I'm just not sure how familiar he is with the Cocka Maimy round tripping stuff. Can anyone shed more light on this. How can we take a timeline color corrected in a Resolve Drop Frame project and get it into a Resolve Non Drop Frame project. The "Use Drop Frame" check box is greyed out in the Drop Frame project with the box checked and it seems there's no way to uncheck it now. I tried some of the settings in the Delivery section but the
use drop frame was also greyed out prohibiting any change there.

If all else fails I guess we can just export the timeline as a single clip and cut it in to the Avid sequence. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm beginning to think that "Sick Day" advice Mike P gave me is the best idea yet.

John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net

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