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‌How clips in mixed frame rate timelines are rendered depends on whether the Render Settings are set to render individual source clips or one single clip. When you render the Timeline as ”Individual Source Clips,” then all clips are rendered individually at their original frame rate. If you select ”Single Clip,” then all clips are converted to the “Timeline frame rate” frame rate setting, and rendered as a single media file.‌

Importing Effects when Conforming Edits

DaVinci Resolve is capable of translating a subset of the effects exported within XML, AAF, and EDL project files into their DaVinci Resolve equivalents. The following chart illustrates which effects are supported, and for which project import formats.

Unsupported effects are neither imported nor displayed in DaVinci Resolve. However, the majority of unsupported effects are preserved internally, and are reinserted into exported XML or AAF files so that those effects will reappear in your NLE once the project is reimported.

Effects supported with imported AAF, XML, and EDL

About Supported Color Corrections

At the time of this writing, only Final Cut Pro X XML projects are capable of exporting color correction data that can be imported as primary grades in DaVinci Resolve. For obvious reasons, color correction import is a one-way street, and imported color corrections cannot be output back to Final Cut Pro.

Imported Final Cut Pro X color adjustments appear in the Color page as primary corrections.

Other workflows for importing color correction information from other applications are available using ColorTrace to import grade data from CDLs (Color Decision Lists). For more information,

see the “Copying Grades Using ColorTrace” section in Chapter 186, “Copying and Importing Grades Using ColorTrace.”

About Supported Transitions

EDLs are the most restrictive when it comes to transition support in DaVinci Resolve, as only Cross Dissolves will be read. Any other transitions appearing in an EDL will be automatically converted to a Cross Dissolve of the same duration when it’s imported into DaVinci Resolve.

On the other hand, DaVinci Resolve supports the import of ten different transitions when importing XML project files from Final Cut Pro X and legacy Final Cut Pro 7, or nine different transitions when importing AAF files from Avid Media Composer or Symphony.

Supported transitions for imported EDL, XML, and AAF

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