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After you’ve reimported your project back into your NLE or finishing application, you’re free to
readjust these effects while completing your program, without the need to re-render individual
clips in DaVinci Resolve.
IMPORTANT One exception to the preservation of media and effects in round-trip
workflows is that nested sequences from Final Cut Pro 7 and Media Composer are not
compatible with DaVinci Resolve; XML and AAF files containing nested sequences
cannot be imported. On the other hand, Final Cut Pro X projects containing compound
clips can be imported.
More About Rendering Speed Effects
If you’re rendering a project with speed effects, you should be aware that DaVInci Resolve can
optionally render speed effects using Optical Flow processing, resulting in high-quality slow
motion and fast motion effects delivered straight out of DaVinci Resolve. If you’re satisfied with
Optical Flow processing in DaVinci Resolve, there may be no need for you to do a round-trip
export if the main reason you were doing so was to send the processing of slow motion clips to
another application for rendering, and rendering the Timeline in Single clip mode will “bake” the
speed effects in using whatever settings you’ve selected for the project, or for each clip if
you’ve selected individual Retime Process settings for different clips.
However, if you want to send unrendered speed effects to another application, rendering your
project in Individual source clips mode guarantees that the full range of each original clip of
media will be rendered, with the speed effect itself exported within the XML, AAF, or EDL file
that’s exported.
NOTE: DaVinci Resolve adds three frame handles to clips with speed changes applied
to them, and to rendered clips that don’t match the project’s frame rate. This is done to
facilitate reconform in NLEs that require handles beyond the actual length of each of
these clips.
Determining the Rendered Output
Resolution of Clips in Mixed Timelines
Ordinarily, rendering individual source clips results in each clip being rendered at either the
project resolution or the Resolution drop-down in the Render Settings (which overrides the
project resolution), with clips that don’t match the project resolution being resized or not
according to the settings you’ve chosen in the Image Scaling panel of the Project Settings.
However, if you’re rendering dailies for projects containing clips with mixed resolutions, you can
choose to render each clip at its original resolution by turning on the “Render at source
resolution” checkbox in the Video group of controls.
Rendering Edit and Input Sizing Adjustments
Whether or not sizing is rendered into your final media depends on the “Disable sizing and
blanking” checkbox in the Advanced Settings options of the Render Settings panel. You can
disable sizing and blanking either when rendering the current Timeline as a single clip, or when
rendering individual clips.
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