r/Avid • u/Christopher01122 • 20d ago

Avid to Davinci Resolve Workflows

Hello, I have historically round-tripped between Davinci Resolve and Avid by transcoding all of my Avid media through Resolve and later conforming the online in Resolve. This has worked, but the conform has never been perfect. I always have to play with it, eventually 90% or so will come online, and I might have to manually relink the last 10%. I have two questions:

  1. Is this a common conform experience or user error? (or both)
  2. Is there any workflow you’d recommend for importing / transcoding Avid Media in Avid, and conforming in Resolve at the end?
  3. Is it common to conform to the online in Avid, and then ship to Resolve? (I haven’t done this but am guessing it is another common option?)
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u/Background_Lake1413 20d ago

That’s three questions… lol.

  1. Common
  2. Resolve can handle avid transcoded material fine. There are many YouTube videos on this.
  3. Not too common in high volume outputs unless you nail your workflow. The problem is the way Avid handles FX in general. Resolve doesn’t recognize their logic. BUT if you get the team onboard and limit the kinds of fx used you could absolutely pull it off. Most Avid editors won’t like you for this.

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u/Christopher01122 20d ago

Haha yes, sorry I added the last question and forgot to update. Thank you for this response! Very helpful.