User Manual

Table Of Contents
Delivery Effects Processing
For your final output, how effects are rendered depends on whether you’re rendering in
Single Clip or Individual Clips mode.
When Rendering a Single Clip or When Outputting to Tape
Whether you’re rendering a QuickTime or MXF master of your project as a single clip, rendering
a DPX image sequence for film output, or outputting directly to tape, all supported compositing,
speed, and transform effects are rendered by DaVinci Resolve and “baked” into the output
media. Unsupported effects are completely ignored, cannot be seen, and have no effect on
media that’s rendered and output.
When Rendering Individual Source
Clips for Round-Trip Workflows
In workflows where you’re rendering individual media files to send a project back to an NLE or
finishing application for final finishing (adding titles and other effects before final delivery),
DaVinci Resolve handles different types of effects in different ways.
Unsupported effects do not appear in DaVinci Resolve. However, this effects data is internally
preserved, and when you export an XML or AAF file to send back to your NLE of choice, these
effects reappear, applied to the color corrected media that you rendered out of DaVinci Resolve
and sent back.
Effects that DaVinci Resolve does support such as composite modes, opacity settings, speed
effects, and transitions are handled differently. Even though these effects are visible in
DaVinci Resolve while you work, theyre not “baked” into the final media that you render in
preparation for sending back to your NLE or finishing application. Instead, the portion of each
media clip that’s used in your project is rendered as an individual file, and the XML file that you
export from DaVinci Resolve contains all of the effects information necessary to reassemble the
rendered media into a timeline that uses Final Cut Pro effects applied to DaVinci Resolve-
graded media.
EDL FCP 7 FCP X
Premiere
Pro
Media
Composer*
Color Corrections N/A N/A Rendered N/A N/A
Composite Modes N/A Sent Back Sent Back Sent Back Rendered
Alpha Channels N/A
Optionally
Rendered
Optionally
Rendered
Optionally
Rendered
Optionally
Rendered
Transitions Sent Back Sent Back Sent Back Sent Back Sent Back
Opacity Settings N/A Sent Back Sent Back Sent Back Sent Back
Position, Scale, Rotation N/A Conditional Conditional Conditional Conditional
Linear Speed Effects Sent Back Sent Back Sent Back Sent Back Sent Back
Variable Speed Effects N/A Sent Back Sent Back Sent Back Sent Back
Long Duration Still Images N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Freeze Frames N/A N/A N/A N/A Rendered
The chart shows which effects are rendered by DaVinci Resolve, and which
effects are passed back in different round trip workflows.
* These effects are only sent back in AAF round trips when you’re updating
an existing AAF file, rather than generating a new AAF file.
Chapter – 164 Delivery Effects Processing 3414