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About “Ken Burns Effect” and Dynamic Zoom
If you import a project from Final Cut Pro X with clips that use the Ken Burns effect for creating pan and scan animation, then the Dynamic Zoom parameters (found in the Edit page Inspector when a clip is selected) for each affected clip will be populated with an equivalent animated effect.
About Speed Effects
DaVinci Resolve supports the import of speed effects from different applications, but different project formats have different speed effect support.
— EDL: DaVinci Resolve only supports the import of linear speed effects when importing EDLs.
— XML: DaVinci Resolve supports the import of both linear and variable speed effects when importing XML project files from Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro 7, and Final Cut Pro X. As of
DaVinci Resolve version 11.1, XML from Final Cut Pro X can also provide information about whether frame blending or optical flow is used, as well as information about the Bezier curve transitions of speed effects.
— AAF: DaVinci Resolve supports the import of both linear and variable speed effects when importing AAF files from Media Composer or Symphony that use Timewarp effects.
DaVinci Resolve has high-fidelity conversion of variable-speed speed effect data from other applications, accomplished by creating one speed keyframe per frame for each affected clip. However, you may see small variations between the resulting speed effect in DaVinci Resolve and an offline reference movie exported from the original NLE if you haven’t set the Retime Process setting to the same type of speed interpolation that the original NLE was using.
In other words, if you created a Timewarp speed effect in Media Composer that uses FluidMotion to create smooth slow motion effects, then you’ll want to make sure to change either the project-wide
or clip-specific Retime Process setting to Optical Flow so that the speed effects in DaVinci Resolve best match those in Media Composer. For more information on speed effects in DaVinci Resolve,
see Chapter 51, “Speed Effects.”
About Nested Sequences and Compound Clips
DaVinci Resolve supports the import of compound clips from Final Cut Pro X and of nested sequences from legacy Final Cut Pro 7. Both appear within DaVinci Resolve as compound clips, in both the Timeline and the Media Pool. Compound clips with mixed frame rates are supported, as well as multi-cam and A/V synchronized clips from Final Cut Pro X, which are represented in
DaVinci Resolve as compound clips. For more information about creating and using compound clips in DaVinci Resolve, see the “Compound Clips” section of Chapter 42, “Take Selectors, Compound Clips, and Nested Timelines.”
About Supported Composite Modes
When importing XML project files from Final Cut Pro 7, Premiere Pro, and Final Cut Pro X,
DaVinci Resolve supports the import of eight different composite modes. When importing AAF files from Media Composer, the Overlay composite mode is supported when the source AAF file has a Superimpose effect applied to it.
AAF | ||
Add | Yes | No |
Subtract | Yes | No |
Difference | Yes | No |
Multiply | Yes | No |
Screen | Yes | No |
Overlay | Yes | Yes |
Lighten | Yes | No |
Hardlight | Yes | No |
Softlight | Yes | No |
Darken | Yes | No |
Supported composite modes with imported XML and AAF
About Supported Still Image Formats
DaVinci Resolve supports the import of greater-than-one-frame-in-duration TIF, JPG, PNG, DPX, TGA, and DNG still image files that appear in Final Cut Pro X, Final Cut Pro 7, and Premiere Pro XML files, and AAF files exported from Media Composer. These clips appear as ordinary clips in the DaVinci Resolve Timeline. Export of still images is limited to Final Cut Pro 7 and Final Cut Pro X XML formats.
About Supported Alpha Channels
Media with embedded alpha channels is supported for any project as long as it’s in a media format that DaVinci Resolve supports; this includes TIFF, OpenEXR image sequence formats, and four-channel QuickTime formats such as ProRes 4444, DNxHR 444, and QuickTime Animation. Alpha channels are automatically enabled, and can be used for compositing directly within the DaVinci Resolve Timeline.
Alpha channels can be exported in round-trip workflows when rendering individual source clips. However, when rendering a program as a single clip, all composited effects are rendered together to produce a single output media file. For more information on rendering clips with alpha channels, see Chapter 185, “Delivery Effects Processing.”
About Imported Text Effects
DaVinci Resolve supports the import of text generators when importing XML project files from both Final Cut Pro X and Final Cut Pro 7. All imported text effects appear in the DaVinci Resolve Timeline as Basic text generators. Some, but not all, formatting parameters are imported, depending on the project file format being imported.
About Imported Audio in AAF Projects
Any combination of audio track types, channel map order, MXF and QuickTime files, and rendered or unrendered clips should import without problems.
NOTE: When exporting an AAF project, DaVinci Resolve is capable of writing mono media in stereo tracks.
NOTE: When exporting an AAF project, DaVinci Resolve is capable of writing mono media in stereo tracks.
NOTE: When exporting an AAF project, DaVinci Resolve is capable of writing mono media in stereo tracks.