# What does Blackmagic's own documentation (under 25 MB) say about reel names when conforming an EDL/AAF/XML in DaVinci Resolve?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T16:32:33.716Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5MSPRZ4VJE85CVTBH3F9MGX

Blackmagic's New Features Guides document a few conform aids. Resolve 16 added partial reel-name matching for conform and ColorTrace, ignoring a set number of characters at the start or end of reel names. Resolve 17 can import XML, EDL or AAF timelines into an empty Media Pool, and timelines preconformed from a flattened master via 'Pre-conformed EDL' can take a different input colour space per clip under Resolve Color Management or ACES. Resolve 19's scripting API exports timeline ALE and CDL and imports OpenTimelineIO. How EDL reel/clip columns, ASC CDL comments or AAF tape names are parsed is not stated in these guides.

Blackmagic's New Features Guides document a few conform aids. Resolve 16 added partial reel-name matching for conform and ColorTrace, ignoring a set number of characters at the start or end of reel names. Resolve 17 can import XML, EDL or AAF timelines into an empty Media Pool, and timelines preconformed from a flattened master via 'Pre-conformed EDL' can take a different input colour space per clip under Resolve Color Management or ACES. Resolve 19's scripting API exports timeline ALE and CDL and imports OpenTimelineIO. How EDL reel/clip columns, ASC CDL comments or AAF tape names are parsed is not stated in these guides.

Curator qualifications: Guides read 2026-10-22 (producer copies); Resolve not run. Verified on producer copies: nfg16.pdf sha256 c71d708437fe2892 (= pin), 'conform and ColorTrace timelines using partial matches for reel names. Limit reel name matching to X characters ... Ignore the first X characters'; nfg17.pdf 1683ed4b50306637 (= pin), 'Import XML, EDL, and AAF Timelines with an Empty Media Pool', 'File > Import Timeline > Pre-conformed EDL command', 'Reel: Sets the Reel/Card ID'; nfg19.pdf 4e4c5eaa88d6eec2 (= pin), 'Exporting timeline ALE and CDL', 'Importing OpenTimelineIO timelines'. Reference Manual not read (over 25 MB).

Limitations: Guides read 2026-10-22 (producer copies); Resolve not run.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_Resolve_16_New_Features_Guide.pdf",
      "note": "documents.blackmagicdesign.com SupportNotes (same-host curator receipt, Blackmagic RAW Developer SDK PDF)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_Resolve_17_New_Features_Guide.pdf",
      "note": "documents.blackmagicdesign.com SupportNotes (same-host curator receipt, Blackmagic RAW Developer SDK PDF)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_Resolve_15_New_Features_Guide.pdf",
      "note": "documents.blackmagicdesign.com SupportNotes (same-host curator receipt, Blackmagic RAW Developer SDK PDF)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_Resolve_19_New_Features_Guide.pdf",
      "note": "documents.blackmagicdesign.com SupportNotes (same-host curator receipt, Blackmagic RAW Developer SDK PDF)"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Blackmagic's New Features Guides document a few conform aids. Resolve 16 added partial reel-name matching for conform and ColorTrace, ignoring a set number of characters at the start or end of reel names. Resolve 17 can import XML, EDL or AAF timelines into an empty Media Pool, and timelines preconformed from a flattened master via 'Pre-conformed EDL' can take a different input colour space per clip under Resolve Color Management or ACES. Resolve 19's scripting API exports timeline ALE and CDL and imports OpenTimelineIO. How EDL reel/clip columns, ASC CDL comments or AAF tape names are parsed is not stated in these guides. · locator: documents.blackmagicdesign.com SupportNotes (same-host curator receipt, Blackmagic RAW Developer SDK PDF) · source: https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_Resolve_16_New_Features_Guide.pdf

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