How CrossFlow moves a
Premiere Pro project to DaVinci Resolve
One trip, end to end
From your Premiere Pro project to a ready-to-grade DaVinci Resolve project,
with nothing manually re-imported or re-linked.
1. Open CrossFlow, a standalone desktop app
CrossFlow is a standalone desktop app. It can automatically handle different things:
- Converting a Premiere project to Resolve
- Returning Resolve graded clips to Premiere
- Preparing a Premiere project to be transferred to any NLE
It only requires DaVinci Resolve installed if you want to transfer your project to/from DaVinci Resolve. It means you don’t need it installed if you only want to prepare a project for sending (to another NLE for example).
On a single computer, it only requires Premiere Pro installed if you want to transfer your project back from Resolve (“Return to Premiere” feature) and also Media Encoder installed if you want to transcode your clips which cannot be translated natively (check the list of items/effects that CrossFlow cannot translate natively). It means you don’t need Premiere/Media Encoder installed if you only need a plain conversion from Premiere to Resolve without transcoding.
Remember to save your Premiere / Resolve projects before launching conversion. If Premiere / Resolve is closed and needs to be open, CrossFlow will do it automatically.
Finally: remember that CrossFlow will not modify your original Premiere / Resolve projects. It only creates a copy or fresh new project.
2. Choose what gets transcoded / converted
Three option groups control the conversion from Premiere to Resolve:
- Project Filters: to filter the Premiere Project before processing. You can select the sequences you want to keep and it will keep them recursively (nested sequences will be taken into account automatically).
- Transcode Options: to choose which items will be transcoded, and decide which transcode preset will be used: All ProRes profiles, H264 Fixed or Adaptive Bitrate, … (tell me if you need others!)
- Transfer Options: to choose which native properties: speed, position, multicam, stabilization, … get carried across. Sensible defaults are on from the start; you only need to touch these if your project needs something specific or to debug an issue.
3. Analyze before you convert (optional)
Click “Analyze Project” to see what CrossFlow would do with your current options, without touching Resolve, Premiere or Media Encoder:
- Which clips would be transcoded and why
- Estimation of the new total transcoded file size
- Which clips would import cleanly / with reduced fidelity / not at all
It’s a preview, not a guarantee (some things can only be confirmed by the real conversion) but it catches most surprises early.
4. Convert
CrossFlow renders whatever needs transcoding through Adobe Media Encoder, then writes the whole project directly into DaVinci Resolve’s own project: bins, sequences, markers, transitions, effects, and the transcoded clips.
There’s no intermediate file for you to import: open Resolve and the project is already there, organized the way it was in Premiere.
If you set your Premiere colors the same way as Resolve (can be done in one click inside CrossFlow), you will even get the same exact clip colors.
5. Review exactly what happened
Every conversion is saved in the Tasks tab, with a full per-clip breakdown of what was converted, transcoded, or flagged, plus the exact options used. You can come back to it later, even after closing and reopening CrossFlow.
6. Grade in Resolve, then bring it back (optional)
Once you’ve applied at least one Color Node to a clip in Resolve, use “Return to Premiere” from the main tab by selecting “Resolve → Premiere” (or from the Tasks tab in the details of your first conversion). CrossFlow detects every graded clip, exports it out of Resolve, and builds a new Premiere Pro project, copied from the original, with the graded shots already dropped in. No manual re-importing or re-placing.
Read the documentation
Premiere Pro and Resolve on two computers? (optional)
Click Export for Another Computer instead of Convert Project: CrossFlow saves a transfer file and lists the media to send. The colorist opens that file in CrossFlow, which finds the media and builds the Resolve project, then sends the graded clips back the same way. Read the Machine Transfer guide.
Try it on your own project
The free trial converts the first 10 clips of every sequence, with every option on. See the result in Resolve before you buy.
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