Why CrossFlow?

The usual ways to move a project from Premiere Pro to DaVinci Resolve are:

• FCP XML
• AAF
• EDL
• OpenTimelineIO (OTIO)

Each of these is a generic interchange format, not something built specifically for a trip from Premiere Pro to Resolve. In practice this means that many clip and effect types don't survive the export (speed changes, time remapping, multicam, adjustment layers, stabilization, some transitions...), that the result usually needs manual relinking and conforming once opened in Resolve, and that if something goes wrong you're mostly on your own figuring out what got lost and why.

CrossFlow is built for exactly this one trip, end to end:

• Transfers a lot more than an interchange file can carry: multicam, nested sequences, merged clips, speed-changed and time-remapped clips, adjustment layers, Warp Stabilizer, clip colors and markers, bin and folder structure, and more. See the full list.
• Falls back to a real render instead of dropping what it can't convert. Anything Resolve genuinely can't reproduce (an unsupported effect, an After Effects composition, a masked clip...) is automatically transcoded through Adobe Media Encoder first, so the visual result is preserved rather than silently lost.
• Creates the Resolve project directly instead of producing an intermediate file you still need to import and conform: open Resolve and your project is already there, organized the way it was in Premiere.
• Closes the loop back to Premiere. Once you've graded clips in Resolve, Return to Premiere brings the graded shots back into a new Premiere Pro project automatically, something none of the classic interchange formats do at all.
• Tells you exactly what happened. Every run is kept in the Results tab with a detailed, per-clip breakdown of what was converted, transcoded or flagged, instead of a silent export you have to check by eye once it's in Resolve.
• One tool, one click. No juggling of export and import steps across different applications: launch the conversion from CrossFlow and get a project ready to grade in Resolve.

CrossFlow is in active development, and it is directly shaped by editors' real workflows and pain points. If there's a case it doesn't handle yet, tell us and it becomes the next thing we build.