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— Do not make Y’ only adjustments; they’re not compatible with CDLs. To ensure that your exported CDL is accurate, set the Lum Mix parameter in the Primary Controls palette for each grade to 0.
For workflows involving frequent CDL export, you can turn on the “Luminance Mixer defaults to zero” option in the Color section of the General Options panel of the Project Settings to guarantee this parameter is always set to 0.
If your timeline conforms to all of these restrictions, then you’re ready to export a CDL.
1 Open the Edit page, right-click the Timeline you want to export in the Media Pool, and choose Timelines > Export > CDL from the contextual menu.
2 Enter a name for the CDL, choose a location to save it to, and click OK.
For more information on importing a CDL to add grades to your project, see Chapter 146, “Copying and Importing Grades Using ColorTrace.”
Exporting the Edit Index as a CSV or TXT File
You can export the current contents of the Edit Index, in the Edit page, as a self-contained file to use for reference in a variety of ways.
1 Open the Edit Index, and choose one of the Edit Index filters from the Edit Index option menu, if necessary. For example, you could filter the edit index by Offline Clips Only if you wanted to export a list of all offline clips in the current timeline.
2 Right-click that timeline in the Media Pool, and choose Timelines > Export > Edit Index, then choose a location and export format from the Export Edit Index dialog, and click Save.
Exporting to ALE
DaVinci Resolve is also capable of exporting ALE (Avid Log Exchange) files. ALE is a tab-delimited, ASCII text-based clip logging list format that enables the exchange of clip metadata that can’t be embedded inside MXF files. ALE files are designed to let you export a log of all clips that are used in a particular timeline with all of the metadata that’s associated with those clips in DaVinci Resolve, so this metadata can be imported into and associated with clips inside Media Composer or Symphony.
ALE files are divided into three sections, labeled Heading, Column, and Data:
— The Heading provides information about the clips being logged, including the picture and audio format, and the frame rate.
— The Column line defines each of the columns of metadata being exported in the list. There’s an automatic minimum of metadata columns that are automatically included, regardless of whether they’re populated or not. However, additional metadata columns are automatically added to
this list by DaVinci Resolve when any corresponding metadata field in the Metadata Editor is populated. For example, if you enter information into the Camera, Keyword, and Shot fields of the Metadata Editor, then those columns will be added to the exported ALE. There are no user settings that control this.
— The Data section contains multiple lines, one for each event being referenced in the list, that contain all the data corresponding to that clip.
If you’re exporting stereoscopic clips from stereoscopic timelines, the following additional columns of metadata are automatically included in the two ALE files that are generated:
— Pan (relative to timeline resolution)
— Tilt (relative to timeline resolution)
— Zoom
— Rotate
— Convergence (relative to timeline resolution)
— HFlip (0 or 1)
— VFlip (0 or 1)
If you’re exporting ALE files from projects using ARRIRAW clips, the following additional columns of metadata can be included:
— Temperature
— Tint
1 Open the Edit page, right-click the Timeline you want to export in the Media Pool, and choose Timelines > Export > ALE from the contextual menu.
2 Enter a name for the ALE file, choose a location to save it to, and click OK.
The ALE file is saved, and a dialog appears reminding you of the file path to which it was saved (click OK to dismiss it).
Heading
FIELD_DELIM TABS
VIDEO_FORMAT 1080
AUDIO_FORMAT 48khz
FPS 23.976
Column
Name, Tracks, Start, End, Take, Tape, UNC, FPS, Reel, Scene, Shoot, date, Manufacturer, Source Resolution, Source, Bit Depth, DESCRIPT, Comments, Audio SR, Audio Bit Depth, Auxiliary TC1, KN Start, Source File Path, Display Name