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Chapter 169
Exporting Timelines
and Metadata
Once you’ve completed editing and grading a program, you may need to
export your final graded timeline as EDL, AAF, or XML files in order to send it to
another application for further finishing, effects work, or to complete a round
trip from an NLE.
To send a graded project to another application, you need to render the graded
clips first using the controls on the Deliver page to render the Timeline as
individual source clips. In this mode, the reel name and timecode metadata of
each rendered clip is mirrored by the exported project file, to maintain the
correlation between exported EDL, XML, or AAF data and the rendered media.
For detailed information about rendering in the Deliver page, see Chapter 166,
“Rendering Media.”
If you render using the Easy Setups that correspond to Final Cut Pro XML or
Avid AAF round trips, then an XML or AAF will be exported to the same
directory you’ve rendered to. However, you can still export an XML, AAF, or
EDL file separately should the need arise.
Alternately, if you’ve edited a project from scratch in DaVinci Resolve and need
to move a timeline to another application, you can export any timeline to any
format for purposes of project exchange, without the need to render new media
(depending on your workflow).
Even in situations where you’ve imported a timeline from another application,
the robust project compatibility of DaVinci Resolve makes it possible to import
one type of project exchange file, such as XML, and then export a completely
different kind, such as AAF or EDL. This lets you use DaVinci Resolve as a
project exchange utility.
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