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

hi my name is darren mostin and in this episode i'm going to show you how to go from adobe premiere with your edit into davinci resolve ready to start grading and i'm going to show you if you're an absolute beginner exactly how to do that process it's really simple but it's not always a smooth ride so i'm going to show you some of the things that you might come up against and exactly how to fix them so let's go and take a look so we're in adobe premiere and what i want to do in this first part is to show you as an absolute beginner how easy it is to take this timeline and send it to another system and in our case that's going to be davinci resolve ready to start grading so we've got our sequence down here it's kind of cuts regular cut type sequence there's a dissolve coming up here as you can see and there is also something happening down here that is a picture-in-picture type thing so we need two layers for that and that's the essence of the program so we want to get this information to davinci resolve in as quick and easy way as possible now the best way to do that is to export an xml an xml contains all of these edit decisions every time i've made an edit in here the xml knows where that is and it knows which file name the clip belongs to so it's going to list all these clips in the order they appear with the correct time codes and it will give me on this one for example video layer 2. so we've got a video layer 2 here so that information will come across in the xml as well and an xml is an industry standard so it's a common way of exchanging edit information between different systems it will also take across things like speed changes resizes audio levels effects and how many video tracks you've used and how many audio tracks things like that so how do we actually export that well we go up to file and we say export final cut pro xml don't worry that it says final cut pro it's irrelevant it's an xml file xml files can talk to many different systems so just take the default and what we're going to do it by default it gives you the title name of your sequence and i'm just going to put on the end of here for grade so we know what it is and i'm going to say save and that is now exporting out a xml of my timeline it's not exporting any media it's just taking the information from the timeline the metadata so all we have to do now is switch to whatever system we want to go to so in our case that's davinci resolve and in davinci resolve you have a media pool so all the clips that we want to use for the grade need to be sat inside this media pool davinci resolve will not work if those clips are not in there so in adobe premiere to import material you open a bin and say file import whereas in resolve you have the media pool at the bottom and at the top you're browsing your hard drives and you literally drag and drop the clip or the clips that you want to work with but i'm going to show you an easy way of doing it so if we go straight to our edit page so we've got absolutely nothing here this is a blank project nothing going on it's brand new project i'm going to right click in here okay this is a this is also the media pool but a sort of smaller version of it and i'm going to say timeline import xml i'm going to point to the xml that we just created and say open and what happens now is we get this dialog box so resolve is being intelligent here it's having a look at the xml and saying what do i want to do with it so the source file the actual xml is here okay the import timeline is the one from premiere so there was two in there so it's picked the right one the timeline name it just gives it the same default name as you've imported and the master timeline start time code it's saying is 01 hours that's actually what the default is here in my edit page what we're going to do is override that so if i say automatically set project settings it will override this start time code because in premiere our time code started at zero zero hours you don't have to worry about it too much so i'm automatically going to set the project settings that will also look at the frame rate i'm going to automatically import the source clips into the media pool so resolve's going to do it for me it's going to look at the xml it's going to see which clips are used in premiere and it's going to automatically bring them into the media pool for me and it's also going to use the sizing information so when we did that picture in picture we must have done a resize so i'm going to bring that information across because the xml has saved that information my timeline resolution is 1920x1080 that has been taken from the premiere sequence settings i had and don't worry about this bit down here mixed frame rates we don't need to worry about that so let's just say okay and that's it it's done it's as simple as that so we now have all our cuts in the timeline ready to go so these can now be graded in resolve by simply clicking on the color page okay and i can now go ahead and just simply start grading these shots it's a really really simple way of bringing them in now that is a very easy way of doing it and that is all you need to take away as a beginner what i want to do now is move on to a more advanced part and have a look at when things don't go quite to plan so if we have a look at our picture in picture it's actually not worked okay so what i want to do in the next section is show you how to fix this and go into a little bit more advanced work when we're working with more complex timelines so i hope you're enjoying this episode so far and you're learning a lot from it these episodes don't make themselves i put a lot of work into these so there's a lot of preparation i have to build those timelines to show you all the things that can go wrong and try and explain it the best i can so you get the best experience while you're watching my episodes on youtube takes me a long time to make it's going to take you no time at all to give it a thumbs up hit the subscription and hit the notification thank you very much so let's have a look at what went wrong with the xml when we had a look at this picture-in-picture in resolve so if we check our sequence settings we go sequence settings up here and we see that we are set to 1920 by 1080. so this is a hd regular timeline now our footage is made up of a combination of ultra hd 2k and 4k footage and premiere can handle that quite happily so if i just take any clip here this is a 3840 pixels by 2160 so it's ultra hd i can press in let's do a mark out and if i just drag and drop that onto the timeline what premiere will do is automatically scale it to hd resolution so premiere has two different ways in which it can resize images so if i right hand click on this you see it's currently set to scale to frame size but there's also this option here of set to frame size now when we're on scale to frame size what premiere does is it automatically rescales it to be hd but the effect control doesn't show anything in the scaling so the scaling is still 100 because it's rasterizing the image so it's kind of virtually bringing it into hd resolution instead of ultra hd resolution now if i change that and right click on here and say set to frame size you see now that the scaling has become 50 so it's now correctly scaling the image from ultra hd down to a hd size so this one is going to give you much better quality the set to frame size is going to give you much better quality so the reason the xml didn't work on the picture in picture was because the xml was reading the information incorrectly so let's have a look if we right hand click on here you can see that we're set to scale to frame size and let's take a look at the effect properties and you can see we've got on positioning we've got some position movement obviously to create our left and right images and the scaling is set to 50 now at first glance that would seem correct but in actual fact this was an ultra hd image and so it should be 25 so let me change the scaling properties i'm going to say set to frame size which is the correct way to do it and also we'll give you better quality image and you now see that 50 scaling is actually this big so what we need to do is set this to be half of that again so it's 25 and now it's correct now if we just set this to set to frame size to start with we would have gone straight to 25 with our image to create the picture in picture anyway you can set set to frame size to be a default so if i go to premiere preferences and go to media you can see that our default media scaling is currently scaled to frame size so the first thing you want to do before you start a project is set to frame size not scale to frame size this is going to give you better quality images and it's going to make sure your xmls work correctly so that's why the xml came across because the xml actually had a scaling of 50 in here not 25 that it should have had so the other reason that all these other clips worked fine if we just flick to resolve so back in resolve if we go to our edit page you can see here's the xml that was brought in and all the images are correct even though they were set to scale to frame size and the reason they're correct is because in the preferences here mismatched resolution files is scale entire image to fit so it's automatically going to resize the ultra hd stuff into hd in resolve no matter what the xml says so back into premiere and that should explain what was going on there so just to recap set to frame size is going to give you better quality and your xml is going to come across correctly so that's how to export a basic timeline let's take this upper gear now i'm going to go to this second sequence and we've got a lot more going on in here now when this sequence was built the preferences were set to and here they were set to frame size okay so the default media scaling sets the frame size not scale so we're getting better quality and we know our xml is going to be far more successful now we've got just basic cuts going on here we've got a dissolve here we've got multiple layers we've got three video layers going on on this one and over here we've got has this got anything on it nope keep going through and these are just basic cuts uh we could tidy this up a little bit this is obviously a cutaway sitting on top of another image but the xml is going to handle it fine so in this clip here this is gopro footage and what we've done here is we've got a scale of 65 but we've also got repositioning and what i've done is tried to get the edge of the bowl at the top and i tried to chop off the excess table down the bottom but also i wanted to line this edge with the edge of the screen and to do that i had to rotate minus one degree all right so it's just another thing for the xml to have to handle so we go through here what else we've got going on so oh right so the picture in picture in here is more complex so it's got a move on it so i'll just play that through and again we want all that to come across exactly correct in the xml and this shot here's got a lens flare on it so we've got a bit of a effect going on there i'm going to show you what happens when you export with a lens flare on there that's a premier lens flare okay and coming up we've got timeline marker here so let's see what that says it says frame this shot better okay so we've already done that and then i've got a clip marker here so let's see what that says zoom out not too much okay so let's put that through have we zoomed out i'm just checking my effects so this one's actually got a dynamic move on it already and this shot here has got a speed ramp on it so just to show you that's going to come across in the xml and there we go all right so i think it goes from i don't know 24 or something and it just kicks up to 50 there that's it so what we're going to do is export an xml so that's the first thing we're going to do so we say file export final cut pro xml and i'm going to send that to my xml folder and i'm going to call it full grade again so it's o2 sequence press save and that's done ah so we've got a translation report here so let's just have a look at what that says and so the xml report is just a simple text file so if i click on it you can see that it says here sequence o2 parameter resolve sequence at video track 3 effect lens flare on clip whatever it's called has not translated so that's absolutely fine we know that resolve is not expecting to see that lens flare via the xml so the good thing is any effects that you've got on there you will get a report about what's getting transposed across and what's not but what i'm also going to do is an export of this sequence and the reason i'm going to do that is because i want to manually check all of these effects so this might be absolutely critical how that moves i want to make sure that it's pixel for pixel accurate so i'm just going to do an export of this sequence let's just call it let's put it into our reference file folder and i'm going to press save and i'm also going to put burnt in timecode on there so let's just bring down here it gets my timecode overlay which is already selected and that's going to put the timecode of my timeline on there for me so it's always good for a reference file now so let's just export that out and then we can switch to resolve and import the xml so we're back in resolve we're on the edit page here's the xml from earlier i'm going to create a new bin actually called xmls and i'm going to put the original one in there and then i'm going to go to this bin here and i'm going to right click as we did before timeline import af edl xml drt whatever we want to bring so here's our second xml let's open that up same dialog box as before we're going to keep all the settings the same particularly use sizing information let's say okay so that's a 1080 timeline and there is our new xml so we've just looking good initially we've got our three layers three video layers going on it looks pretty much how i remembered it in premiere but let's have a look what's going on so this all looks pretty good until we get to the 4k stuff and yeah we've got quite a big problem going on here so we've got here there's our move which is correct on our picture in picture but the image scaling is completely out and the reason for that is because of this preference here so we need to change the input scaling from scale entire image to fit to b center crop with no resizing and with no resizing that means any sizing information is coming from the zoom here okay so it's coming from our xml so if i press save now what will happen is we don't get an automatic resizing and the images go to how they were in premiere so let's have a look through particularly this one where we did a little bit of a rotate as well so we can actually see the rotation angle on there is set to one which is correct so i think we're in good shape but how do we check everything accurately i mean we've got some slow motion going on down here with speed ramps so we need to check things like that a good let's just play that back and it looks like we've got the speed change in there so that's good but this is why we made that reference file so we exported a file with time code burnt in and we're going to use that to check our edit has come across correctly with the xml now there's a few ways of doing this but i'm going to show you the easiest way if i go to my media pool i'm going to right hand click here and say new bin and i'm going to call this reference or ref and i'm sorry i've done that inside the xml folder so to get rid of that you just pull it up to the master file and there it is now it's outside of that bin and we can go and find it which is in here our reference file and it was 2a i'm going to drag that into here i'm going to my edit page and what i'm going to do is on this pull down here you've got something called offline and if i press offline i can drag any clip or any sequence in to this viewer here and because this was set to offline what it's doing is it's automatically going to line up with the time code that i'm currently at so it matches the time code on my timeline so we're at 1406 we can see here from the bursting time code that the source clip is at 140.06 it's not a source clip it's a reference clip and because we brought it in here with this mode on that's why it aligns so when i move this timeline the clip moves in sync with whatever i'm doing so we can now go through shot by shot and check it's lined up and we can see that really easily there all these shots on it so i'm just pressing up and down arrow keys i'm just going through each shot here's the shot that we lined up with our one degree rotation that's all looking good and the one i'm keen to see is the picture in picture and that is perfectly aligned so it's really come across really well there's our lens flare that we know that we can't bring in so all we've got to do now is go into our effects and add our own lens flare so we can do that quite easily because our effects library we can go here add a lens reflection maybe whatever we want to do and you'll also see the markers come across so there's it says frame shot better which is what the sequence marker said in premiere and our clip markers come across as well so it says zoom out not too much so this was a zoom let's just see if that's come across which it has perfectly and the last thing is our speed ramp so if i just zoom into our timeline here and highlight a clip and if i press command r we can see our retime here so it's 24 to start with then 50 and then 50 so that's perfect so that's exactly what we wanted so it's replicated the speed change perfectly you sometimes get one or two percent mismatch on this but generally it's in a good place and you can always override this and manually make adjustments to that so i'm really pleased with how well that's come in everything's looking really good so don't forget it's set to frame size in premiere and in davinci resolve you want in your preferences here to be center crop with no resizing and that way your xmls will come in really well and all that's left to do now is switch to the color page there's all the clips ready to grade i hope that's going to help you have a much smoother ride when you're conforming from premiere into davinci resolve look after yourselves and i'll see you in the next episode

Channel: Darren Mostyn

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Id: C561OeNewME

Length: 17min 39sec (1059 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 29 2021