From the course: DaVinci Resolve Guru: Moving Timelines Between Editing Apps
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Why conforming is essential to round-tripping - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial
From the course: DaVinci Resolve Guru: Moving Timelines Between Editing Apps
Why conforming is essential to round-tripping
- As you get ready to learn how to round trip like a pro, I need to re-emphasize the importance of what is generally called, the conform, or conforming, or conforming the timeline. Remember in an earlier movie where I talked about the golden rule of round-tripping? Thou shalt not shift a single edit point, or slip a single shot, not even by one frame. The moment you break this rule, and trust me your client will eventually figure out you messed up their timeline, you will lose the confidence of your client. After all, if you can't get the timeline right, why should they expect you to get anything else right? And this is what the conform process is all about. Conforming the timeline is the process by which you ensure the XML you imported is shot for shot, frame for frame, matched to the locked approved timeline. And the key to conforming your timeline is a reference movie. If we take another look at part one of the handles workflow, down there are the end of step seven, are two…
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