Premiere Pro → DaVinci Resolve → Premiere Pro

Conformed.
Not approximated.

FCPXML and AAF are lossy translations of a Premiere timeline. Konformista reads the native project and rebuilds your edit inside DaVinci Resolve frame-for-frame — transforms, retimes, transitions and audio intact — then if needed, brings the finished grade back to Premiere.

See how it works
PR Premiere Pro · .prproj .konform conform package DaVinci Resolve · Studio macOS & Windows
Konformista
Konformista Project Hub showing tracked conform jobs across several projects.

A Premiere → Resolve handoff breaks in two places. The timeline: XML and AAF only approximate it. Speed ramps, transforms and transitions come in wrong or not at all; audio loses its routing; nests arrive sealed, their shots out of reach; multicam — a nest under the hood — goes offline unless you flatten every clip by hand; and fractional frame rates round into drift you find deep in the grade. The media: ship terabytes of camera originals, or start the grade chasing offline clips. Konformista fixes both.

The whole workflow

One round trip, start to finish.

Build the conform in Konformista, complete it at the Resolve end, and bring the grade home — every step tracked on the Project Hub.

Movement 01

Build the conform

Konformista

  1. Drop the .prproj on the Hub
  2. Pick the sequence, set media folders
  3. Analyse — get preflight warnings
  4. Export or Send to Resolve
Movement 02

Complete in Resolve

Konformer · Tools · Review · Kontroller

  1. Import the .konform package
  2. Review the flagged clips
  3. Relink & manage media
  4. Grade, then render the shots
The return trip

Grade back to Premiere

Konformista

  1. Drop the grade delivery on the Hub
  2. Konformista matches it to the job
  3. Write a graded .prproj
  4. Open your edit on graded picture

Build the conform

Load → Analyse → Send.

01Load

Drop the project

Drop a .prproj on the Hub. Konformista reads the native project — it never has to open Premiere — lists every sequence, and finds your media across the folders you point it at. Originals or proxies, your call.

02Analyse

Run the preflight

Every clip, transform, retime, transition and audio route is checked against what Resolve can reproduce, then flagged by severity — each with a plain-language explanation and a recommended action. The conform doubles as a QC pass.

03Send

Hand it off

Build a portable .konform package — with or without trimmed media — or Send to Resolve directly. Flags ride along as markers, clip colours and a conform report.

Konformista — Analysis
Konformista analysis results grouping flagged clips by category and severity.

↳ Issues group by category. Select any clip for what it means and what to do in Resolve — with its track and timecode.

Preflight severity

Six colours. Triage at a glance.

A flag isn't a problem — it's a heads-up. One consistent scheme runs through the analysis, the clips in Resolve, and the Review window. Work reds and oranges first, then a quick pass over the rest.

Error

Fix before you conform. Something is wrong — e.g. media offline. Relink it and re-analyse.

Warning

Won't transfer — rebuild in Resolve. Clip effects and Warp Stabilizer.

Review

Verify after import. Speed ramps, approximated transitions, nested sequences, collapsed tracks.

Rebuilt

Done for you — spot-check. Solid-colour generators — Color Matte and Black Video rebuilt natively.

Info

A note for reference. Reframing & scaling, constant speed, freeze frames, opacity keyframes, audio effects, markers, Lumetri settings.

Placeholder

A stand-in you'll replace. Graphics, adjustment layers and synthetic media arrive as disabled placeholders.

↳ The full catalogue of every flag lives in the docs.

The apps

A small family, not one big program.

Konformista isn't tied to a role. Whoever holds the footage runs it — an editor preparing a turnover, or a colourist handed a Premiere project who conforms it themselves.

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Konformista

The main app

Analyses a Premiere project, flags conform risks, and either sends the timeline straight to Resolve or builds a .konform package. Also writes the graded project on the return trip.

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Konformer

Import companion

Opens a .konform package — with or without trimmed media — and imports it into Resolve. For the colourist who doesn't need the full app.

● Free download
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Kontroller

Media, markers & billing

The window you keep open beside the grade — relink and manage every clip online, offline or mismatched, batch markers and colours, build a VFX pull, and track your time and invoice. Reached from the floating tools palette over Resolve, or run as a standalone app.

At the Resolve end

The windows you grade beside.

Konformista Review
Konformista Review window listing flagged clips with reviewed checkboxes and a progress bar.

The Review window

Your checklist during the grade. Every flagged clip, grouped by issue, with the same what-it-means guidance the editor saw. Click a row to jump the Resolve playhead to that clip, tick it reviewed, and watch the progress bar climb.

  • Filter by severity — Warn, Review, Info
  • Live clip navigation on Resolve Studio
  • Export a CSV checklist for sign-off
Kontroller
Kontroller window listing project clips filtered by online, offline and mismatch state.

The Kontroller window

Every media clip in the project at a glance — online, offline or frame-rate mismatch. Select the offline ones, point Konformista at a folder, and apply the confident matches. Batch colours, flags, markers and takes from one action bar.

  • Filter online / offline / mismatch
  • Relink, replace, or add an alternate take
  • Build a VFX pull timeline from a selection

Beyond the conform

Turnover and the return trip, built in.

VFX

Marker-driven VFX pull

Mark ranges on the timeline and Konformista gathers the source clips beneath them, padded with handles, into a pull timeline — queues the plate renders in Resolve, writes a CSV shot list that ShotGrid, ftrack or Nuke Studio can import, and keeps a turnover ledger of what went where, and which version.

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The return trip

When the grade is done, drop the delivery on the Hub. Konformista matches it to the job and writes a new Premiere project pointing at the graded masters — your exact edit, effects intact, now on the colour-corrected picture. Every pass versioned so nothing is overwritten.

Trimmed media

Ship the frames you used. Not the whole card.

Camera originals are big. Turn on Pack trimmed media and the .konform carries only the frames your edit uses of the original camera files, plus handles. On import, Konformer unpacks normal, online, gradeable media on the other side — same names, same timecode, no quality loss.

  • Camera-format aware — ProRes, H.264/265, MXF, R3D, BRAW, DPX/EXR, WAV
  • Handles from 6 to 48 frames — 12 as a sensible default
  • Stills, graphics and anything it can't safely trim ship whole
Handoff — Trimmed media
Konformista handoff dialog with the pack-trimmed-media option and handle settings.

Formats & platforms

Reads Premiere. Speaks Resolve.

Input

  • .prproj   Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Read natively — Premiere need not be installed to analyse
  • Reference video & media search folders

Output

  • .konform   full-fidelity package
  • .xml   plain timeline — lossy fallback
  • Direct send to Resolve · CSV & issues PDF

Resolve

  • Studio — one-click import, live nav, auto-render
  • Free — self-contained package, import by hand
  • Everything runs locally — nothing is uploaded
● macOS · .dmg ● Windows · .exe ○ Linux · coming soon ● DaVinci Resolve 18.0+ ● Premiere Pro 14+

A conform you can trust — both ways down the line.

Read the docs