Premiere Pro Projects in Resolve?

roxics

roxics

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I've been telling myself for years I'm going to jump from PPCC to Resolve. I just haven't put in the effort. Part of the problem is backwards compatibility with Premiere projects. It's not uncommon for clients to come back to me a year of two later and say something like "this person is no longer with the organization, could we have them removed from this video?"
Then I have to open up the old Premiere project.

I had tried doing EDL imports of the projects previously, without great success. I felt like I had to reedit the whole thing. But it's been a while. Wondering if anyone who has made the jump has any tips on this. Or do you just still keep a subscription to Premiere going for situations like this?
 
You keep a subscription until everything is completely transitioned and/or phased out (or use free trials, sometimes on multiple computers, in the rare times you need the software years later).

It's also common to export different versions of those types of projects like without CC/text/music (where applicable) so redoing the audio/its mixing - which is usually most affected by removing someone from a video - would be easier later if you didn't have access to the raw files/project(s).
 
NorBro said:
You keep a subscription until everything is completely transitioned and/or phased out (or use free trials, sometimes on multiple computers, in the rare times you need the software years later).

It's also common to export different versions of those types of projects like without CC/text/music (where applicable) so redoing the audio mixing - which is usually most affected by removing someone from a video - would be easier later if you didn't have access to the raw files/project(s).
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Yeah, I have considered that over time the need to go back to Premiere will slowly vanish as new projects cut in Resolve age into old projects themselves. The need to hold onto Premiere for the next couple of years does take the wind out the transition as I tend to like Premiere better anyway. So I could see myself saying to myself 'if I'm paying or this every month, why am I not using it?" Even though I know why. That's kind for what I've been doing already, which is why I haven't fully made the jump. I kind of need a hard cut off point to force myself over.

I definitely keep multiple backups of all my raw footage/assets. But it's only recently I've been doing various exports without music or graphics. So I would need to go back at least a couple years or more and reexport all those other projects like that. But it sounds like that might be the best solution to obtaining that hard cut off point, without needing to go back and reedit a whole project.

It also sounds like there really isn't an easy import Premiere project into Resolve solution that just works.
 
I don't know too much about Premiere but it's the same concept from software to software.

There are usually a few methods to go about it, some work better than others (sometimes really well depending on what you're doing) - but usually something somewhere is nudged, missing, broken, not behaving as it should, etc. (which is understandable because that's the world of software).

At least the Adobe costs aren't terrible and paying (maybe for now) will likely make your life easier until you're fully ready to embrace Resolve and enough time has passed that it's unlikely you'll hear about a specific file again.
 
In my experience, anything more complex than a very basic edit is not going to move seamlessly from Premiere to Resolve (or the other way around). You will always be doing cleanup. It's a shame, but at this point I just accept that I need to work in the NLE in which the edit was created.

That said, others may have a different experience (or more experience). But I would say that if you need to open a Premiere project that is anything beyond a simple timeline—i.e., no effects, no retiming of clips, no nested sequences, etc.—then you will need to use Premiere.
 
NorBro said:
At least the Adobe costs aren't terrible and paying (maybe for now) will likely make your life easier until you're fully ready to embrace Resolve and enough time has passed that it's unlikely you'll hear about a specific file again.
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Yes, very affordable.
I pay $58/month for the entire Adobe suite of products, which they are updating and improving regularly. It includes Premiere, Photoshop, Afer Effects, Lightroom, Bridge, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Media Encoder,etc. It is the best bargain in the history of video production. Even if someone replaces Premiere with Resolve for editing, I question what they are gonna do to replace the rest of the suite? I think anyone who considers themselves a professional should be able to absorb the $58 cost without batting and eye. Amazing value.

And I have nothing against Resolve, every frame of video I shoot goes through Resolve for grading.
 
That's even cheaper than I knew/thought.

I paid $300 for FCP in 2011 and it's all I've used (for the most part) so that's like $23 per year. Pretty good, too, LOL.

But nothing compares to the variety Adobe offers in the bundles.
 
And if you just search a few cancellation tricks you can get the full CC suite for around 50% off. I don't think I've paid more than $30/mo for years now. Certainly a steal for the value of that software bundle!
 
For about 5 years I was getting the full Adobe suite for free because I was a stock footage contributor. They eventually let that benefit expire, but it was nice while it lasted.
 
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