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Editor task: Exporting an XML/AAF from Premiere Pro, FCPX and Avid

Editor task: Exporting an XML/AAF from Premiere Pro, FCPX and Avid - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

From the course: DaVinci Resolve Guru: Moving Timelines Between Editing Apps

Editor task: Exporting an XML/AAF from Premiere Pro, FCPX and Avid

- When we were defining our terms earlier in this series, one of the things I talked about is the importance of the XML. It's a text document that you export out of your software. If you're in Avid, it's going to be the AAF, that's what they call it, it's a slightly different format. And here in Resolve, the way we do it is how you do it in all of those softwares, whether it's Final Cut 10, Avid or Premiere. And you'll see I'm going to have an export AAF option XML option. In Premiere it's just export and then there's a fly out window and one of the options is XML. Final Cut 10, you're going to export XML. In Avid, export AAF. The concept's all the same. I'll go ahead, select it. In all of them, you're going to be given an export option. Here in Resolve, we have a pull down that lets us select different formats. In those non-linear editors I just mentioned, they only usually export in one format. Final Cut might give you the option of 1.5 or 1.4, that software typically doesn't go…

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