Return to Premiere

CrossFlow can bring your work back from DaVinci Resolve into Premiere Pro. After converting a project to Resolve and color grading some clips there (applying at least one Color Node), Return to Premiere will:

1. detect every timeline clip that has been graded in Resolve since the conversion,
2. export just those clips out of Resolve,
3. build a new Premiere Pro project, based on the original one, with those clips replaced by their graded version.

This lets you send a rough cut to Resolve for color grading and get a Premiere Pro project back with the graded shots already dropped in, without manually importing or placing anything again.

There are two ways to start it. From the Results tab, open a past conversion's Full Details and click Return to Premiere: CrossFlow switches the Main tab to Resolve → Premiere with that conversion already selected. The button is grayed out when a later conversion has since replaced that Resolve project, since the clips it points to no longer exist.

Or switch the Main tab to Resolve → Premiere yourself and click Select Resolve Project. The list only shows the Resolve projects CrossFlow created, across all your local project libraries, with a search field for long lists. When a project was converted several times under the same name, the most recent conversion is the one used. DaVinci Resolve must have the library holding the chosen project open when you run Return to Premiere; if not, CrossFlow says so and you can open it in Resolve's Project Manager and try again.

Before starting, you can set:

• Transcoded Filename Suffix: added to the end of every clip exported from Resolve, right before the file extension.
• Video Encoding Preset and Alpha Encoding Preset: the codec Resolve renders the graded clips with: ProRes 422, ProRes 422 LT, ProRes 422 HQ, ProRes 4444, or GoPro Cineform RGB 16-bit (with a Quality slider, Windows only). The Alpha preset is used for clips whose source media has an alpha channel, and is hidden when the Video preset already carries alpha. These are separate from the Encoding Presets used for Automatic Transcoding on the way into Resolve.
• New Project Path: where the new Premiere Pro project is saved. By default, a copy of the original project, saved right next to it. Choose Location... picks another place, and Use Default goes back to it.

Then click Return to Premiere. Like a conversion, it is followed live in the Results tab and kept there afterwards. It requires Premiere Pro to be installed on the computer running CrossFlow, since it runs through the same invisible Premiere Pro panel described in Requirements.