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Exporting XMLs and self-contained reference movies from your NLE

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Exporting XMLs and self-contained reference movies from your NLE

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- Now that we have a professional looking timeline, we have a timeline we can export to share with someone else. How do we do that? It's called an XML. An XML is nothing more than a text document that looks remarkably like HTML, which tells your browser how to render a webpage, except, in this case, we're rendering a timeline made up of video files, audio files graphics, text. An XML is otherwise known as a an Interchange Format. It allows different pieces of software to interchange timelines between them. Now, one of the advantages of doing your editing in Resolve, you never have to XML to get to the color correction stage. The timeline exists the same in both the edit page and the color page. All you're doing, is changing the interface wrapping around the timeline. Which is something like a dream come true for this colorist since XMLs can be a total pain. In truth, the more you work with XMLs, the less you like them. All sorts of things can go wrong, especially since different…

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