Finishing system · FilmLight Baselight

Premiere to Baselight

Konformista builds your Premiere edit in FilmLight Baselight: a new scene in the job you choose, on this Mac or a grading suite's database. Speed changes arrive frame for frame and your markers as Baselight marks. Before you send, the results page lists what Baselight will and will not carry, clip by clip.

A new scene: REEL_02_v14 10-16 14:20Baselight

Choose Baselight and the findings list describes what Baselight will carry, clip by clip.

What arrives

A Baselight scene, cut for cut.

Picture
Every clip on every video track, in its stacking order.
Framing
Position, scale, rotation, crop, opacity, and flips.
Blend modes
All of Premiere's blend modes.
Nested sequences
Opened out, with the nest's motion.
Timing
Speed changes, reverse, freeze frames, and speed ramps, frame for frame. Footage at another frame rate plays at the cut's rate.
Transitions
Cross dissolves, and dips to black and to white. Wipes and other transitions arrive as a dissolve, and the results page names them.
Color mattes
With their framing and opacity.
Markers and start timecode
Your markers as Baselight marks, and the sequence's start timecode, drop frame included.
Media
Camera RAW is carried. A missing file arrives as an empty strip under the file's name.

What does not arrive

The results page lists each of these on the clip it affects, before you send.

  • Sound: Baselight takes the picture only.
  • Titles, graphics and MOGRTs, and adjustment layers.
  • Captions.
  • Your reference render. Add it as a track in Baselight to compare against it.

How the send works

  1. Choose Baselight

    When your license covers more than one system, a switch above the results picks where the cut goes. Choose Baselight and the list describes what Baselight will carry; the button reads Send to Baselight.

  2. Choose where the scene goes

    Pick the job, on this Mac or on a grading suite's database.

  3. Send

    Baselight can be open when you send. The cut arrives as a new scene in that job.

Sending to Baselight, step by step

Requirements

Baselight
Baselight 7 on macOS.
Konformista
On a Mac with Baselight 7.
License
A Team seat, which includes Baselight in beta beside Resolve and Flame, or a key that includes Baselight, from beta access.
Premiere
Projects from version 14 on. Premiere doesn't need to be installed.

Questions

Can I conform a Premiere project in Baselight without XML?

Yes. Konformista reads the native .prproj and builds the cut in Baselight itself: a new scene in the job you choose. Before you send, the results page lists anything Baselight will not carry, on the clip it affects.

Where does the cut land?

In a new scene in the Baselight job you choose, on this Mac or on a grading suite's database.

Does the sound come across?

No. Baselight takes the picture only.

Do nested sequences stay nested?

No. They arrive opened out, with the nest's motion.

Do titles and captions come across?

No. Titles, graphics, adjustment layers, and captions are not carried. The results page lists each one on the clip it affects, before you send.

Which version of Baselight does it work with?

Baselight 7 on macOS.

Send your next Premiere cut to Baselight

Baselight is in beta, on macOS.