Answers.Body: <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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Body: <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>
  
Tags: <final-cut-pro-x><workflow><color-grading><davinci-resolve>
Title: Final Cut Pro X & Davinci Resolve workflow
UserDisplayName: p2or
ThreadText: # 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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