Working With 1080i60 material in DaVinci Resolve
- Launch Resolve and set your Media Storage Volumes
- Click DaVinci Resolve on the top taskbar and go to Preferences
- Add your video location by clicking the + button under Media Storage Volumes and adding your hard drive with the footage
- If you are at the Color suite
- Set your Video Capture Hardware to Intensity Pro
- Set your Control Panel Type to Tangent Devices Wave
- Click Save
- Quit the App and Relaunch
- Initialize your project for grading
- Click your user
- Create a new Project
- Click the config tab at the bottom
- Click the add button under Project List on the bottom left and give it a logical name
- Change your project settings in the config tab
- Under Timeline Format
- Set your timeline resolution to 1920×1080
- Set your pixel aspect raio to Square Pixel
- Playback framerate to 29.97
- Image Processing to 32 bit floating point
- Color science is DaVinci YRGB
- DO NOT CHECK Enable Field Processing, you do this at the end or else the DaVinci will run slower
- Timecode Conform Options
- Timecode calculated at 30 frames per second
- Check mark Use Drop Frame Timecode
- Video Monitoring
- Video monitoring format is HD 1080i59.94
- Hit Apply to save your config settings
- Color Grade your Project
- Once graded, go back into the config tab
- under Timeline Format, put a check next to enable field processing
- Render your project
- In the Color Tab, on the top menu, click Session -> Render
- In the Render window, change the following
- In Easy setup
- For Premiere and Final Cut XML, choose Final Cut XML Round-Trip
- Make sure Frame Rate is 30
- Make sure Output Size is 1920×1080
- Make sure Output Type is QuickTime Apple ProRes 422
- Make sure Field Processing is checked
- Make sure your Destination Path is something logical
- Make sure you have a Destination Suffix like DaVinci_Resolve_Renders
- Click Render
- Immediately save the project
- Export XML
- Go to the Conform Tab
- Click Export and place the file in a logical place
- Import XML into NLE of Choice