# DaVinci Resolve

#### Timeline Preparation

To ensure a smooth DRT transfer from DaVinci Resolve for color grading, follow these steps to clean up your picture locked timeline:

1. Create a duplicate of the picture locked timeline with a suffix like "\_forGrading"
2. Collapse multiple video tracks by moving clips to the minimum number of tracks necessary and removing disabled clips. Preserve a seperate video track for visual effects renders.
3. Usually graphic layers get removed from the timeline. If wished to keep them included for readability check, leave them on a separate track.
4. Remove all audio clips and tracks.
5. (optional) It is a good practice to add timeline markers, where effects were used, such as  Stabilizer or speed ramps to prevent any confusion while importing the timeline for grading.

#### Media Management & Timeline Export

For exporting the timeline as well as all the used footage, go to ***File*** > ***Media Management...***

Select the ***Timeline*** tab in the middle, select all the "\_forGrading" timelines and specify where you would like to store the trimmed files. The rest of the settings should be the following: 

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Like that most raw codecs will get trimmed down to the used part with 25 frames handles. If the raw codec used should not support trimming, the complete file will get copied. Next to the raw files Media Management will also export a .DRT (DaVinci Resolve Timeline) file for each selected timeline.

#### Export Reference Video

Export a reference video, preferably in Apple ProRes Proxy codec, of the **picture locked timeline.** Its important, that it is not the "\_forGrading" timeline, to ensure that the conform gets checked against the approved version, in case any mistakes happened during the clean up of the timeline.

#### **Delivery**

All these files can be uploaded to the FTP server. Support for that can be found [here](https://help.simonhardegger.com/file-delivery).


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