AVID – How To Export an .aaf and QuickTime export to Davinci Resolve After Relinking to 2K or 4K Native files
NOTE THIS IS NOT A RELIABLE WORKFLOW IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER CODECS IN YOUR TIMELINE.
IF YOU HAVE FOOTAGE IN YOUR TIMELINE THAT WAS RECORDED ON THE Canon C100 (AVCHD,) (not C300 that is okay) Sony A7s (.mts) or F3 (AVCHD) or Canon 5D or 7D (.h264) or Panasonic HMC150 (AVCHD) or any other camera
that does not record ProRes or DNxHD or DNxHR then don't use this workflow. Use this workflow
This is for projects with footage that was shot using the Sony PMW F5, Panasonic Vericam LT or that was recorded on a PIX or Ninja or on the Arri internal SXS cards using the ProRes codec.
Duplicate the sequence and put in a new bin.
On the duplicate delete any titles you made in AVID. Try to get all your video clips down to the V1 track and or V2 track. If you can get the video track down to one that is easiest.
Next attempt to modify the video tracks down to 1 or 2 tracks if possible.
4. NEXT - Export DnxHD Quicktime for "Resolve" as reference
See this wikidoc How to make a DNxHD QuickTime
5. Duplicate the sequence and delete the audio tracks so that you only have the 1 or 2 video tracks in your timeline that
we are going to send to Resolve for Color Correction
NOW PREP AND EXPORT THE TIMELINE FOR RESOLVE FOR COLOR GRADING
Close project and hide the AVID media files so that AVID doesn't relink to the old transcoded media. Change the name to the AVID MediaFiles folder.
Change from this
To This
Relink to the Storage volume that the CAMERA ORIGINAL FILES
.r3d or ProRes or the Sony F5 XAVCHD files are on.
Go to >Tools>Source Browser
Choose to Link not Import
Navigate to the RAW Footage folder for each card
Or each day of cards and the folder
Locate the original Native Pro Res .movs QuickTimes or
XAVCHD or .r3D etc.
Click on Link
The clips will load into the Bin shown here from each
card you linked to. Do this till all the cards are linked and
the files appear in the bin.