<p>What I'd do:</p>

<ol>
<li>Duplicate the project for a backup.</li>
<li>"Collapse" the timeline from the bottom up:  Lasso all of the clips
immediately above the primary storyline (to make a Premiere
analogy, if the primary storyline is V1, then select all of the
clips on V2), right click, and select "overwrite to primary
storyline."</li>
<li>Repeat step 2 until there are no clips above the primary storyline.</li>
<li>File->Export XML</li>
<li>Import this xml file into Resolve</li>
<li>Color clips</li>
<li>Render individual source files</li>
<li>Replace FCPX clips with new ones</li>
</ol>

<p>I don't have my DaVinci Dongle on me, or I'd elaborate on that side.</p>

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Jason Conrad
<p>I'd like to grade a Final Cut Pro X project with Davinci Resolve. Unfortunately my Final Cut experience is very limited and I don't understand how to get a consolidated project, linked to the <strong>original footage files</strong> in order to create a clean xml file for Davinci Resolve. </p>

<p>When I try to consolidate a project (<em>File > Consolidate</em>), Final Cut creates additional, encoded and conformed files with a weird naming scheme - unfortunately this is not what I expect. </p>

<p>Is there a way to keep the source footage links and create a 'clean edit' which is assembled from the source material instead?</p>

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Final Cut Pro X & Davinci Resolve workflow
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# Final Cut Pro X & Davinci Resolve workflow

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-09-22)

I'd like to grade a Final Cut Pro X project with Davinci Resolve. Unfortunately my Final Cut experience is very limited and I don't understand how to get a consolidated project, linked to the **original footage files** in order to create a clean xml file for Davinci Resolve.

When I try to consolidate a project (*File > Consolidate*), Final Cut creates additional, encoded and conformed files with a weird naming scheme - unfortunately this is not what I expect.

Is there a way to keep the source footage links and create a 'clean edit' which is assembled from the source material instead?

**Tags:** final-cut-pro-x, workflow, color-grading, davinci-resolve


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-09-24. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

What I'd do:

1. Duplicate the project for a backup.
2. "Collapse" the timeline from the bottom up: Lasso all of the clips
   immediately above the primary storyline (to make a Premiere
   analogy, if the primary storyline is V1, then select all of the
   clips on V2), right click, and select "overwrite to primary
   storyline."
3. Repeat step 2 until there are no clips above the primary storyline.
4. File->Export XML
5. Import this xml file into Resolve
6. Color clips
7. Render individual source files
8. Replace FCPX clips with new ones

I don't have my DaVinci Dongle on me, or I'd elaborate on that side.


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