Konformista reads the native .prproj — not a lossy XML or AAF export — and rebuilds the edit in Resolve frame for frame: transforms, retimes, transitions, and audio routing intact. When the grade is finished, it writes a graded Premiere project.
macOS and Windows · DaVinci Resolve 18.0+ · Premiere Pro 14+ projects · everything runs locally
The Project Hub. Every timeline in the handoff, tracked from analysis to graded return.
A Premiere → Resolve handoff breaks in two places. The timeline: XML and AAF are approximations. Speed ramps arrive wrong, multichannel audio loses its routing, nested and multicam sequences break, 4K shots in an HD timeline land punched-in, and in/out points shift on mixed-frame-rate cuts. And the media: ship full camera originals, or spend the first day of the grade relinking. Konformista addresses both.
Workflow
Three phases: build the conform in Konformista, finish it in Resolve, then write the graded project. Every step is tracked on the Project Hub.
Konformista
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Konformista
Build the conform
Drop a .prproj on the Hub. Konformista reads the project directly — Premiere doesn't need to be installed — lists every sequence, and finds the media in the folders you point it at. Originals or proxies.
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.
Build a portable .konform package — with or without trimmed media — or send the timeline straight to Resolve. Flags ride along as markers, clip colors, and a conform report.
Analysis results. Issues group by category; each clip carries what it means, what to do in Resolve, and its track and timecode.
Preflight warnings
Most flags are a heads-up rather than a problem. The same scheme runs through the analysis, the clips in Resolve, and the Review window: work the oranges first, then a pass over the rest.
Fix before you conform. Something is wrong — e.g. media offline. Relink it and re-analyze.
Won't transfer — rebuild in Resolve. Clip effects and Warp Stabilizer.
Verify after import. Speed ramps, approximated transitions, nested sequences, collapsed tracks.
Done for you — spot-check. Solid-color generators — Color Matte and Black Video rebuilt natively.
A note for reference. Reframing & scaling, constant speed, freeze frames, opacity keyframes, audio effects, markers, Lumetri settings.
A stand-in you'll replace. Graphics, adjustment layers, and synthetic media arrive as disabled placeholders.
The full catalog of every flag is in the docs.
The suite
Whoever holds the footage runs the conform: an editor preparing a turnover, or a colorist bringing a Premiere project into their own suite.
Analyzes 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.
Opens a .konform package — with or without trimmed media — and imports it into Resolve. For the colorist who doesn't need the full app.
Free downloadRuns beside the grade: relink and manage every clip, batch markers and colors, keep version-proof clip notes, build VFX pulls and place the returns, and track time through to the invoice. Opened from the tools palette over Resolve, or as a standalone app.
More about Kontroller →During the grade
The Review window.
The checklist during the grade. Every flagged clip, grouped by issue, with the same what-it-means guidance the editor saw. Click a row to move the Resolve playhead to that clip; mark it reviewed and its marker and color clear from the timeline.
The Kontroller window.
Every media clip in the project, filtered by online, offline, or frame-rate mismatch. Select the offline clips, point it at a folder, and apply the confident matches. Batch colors, flags, markers, and takes from one action bar.
Also included
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.
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 color-corrected picture. Every pass is versioned, so nothing is overwritten.
Trimmed media
Camera originals are big. Turn on Pack trimmed media and the .konform carries only the frames the 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.
Handoff options — trimmed media and handles.
Formats & platforms
macOS (.pkg) and Windows (.exe) · Linux planned · DaVinci Resolve 18.0+ · Premiere Pro 14+ projects
Konformista runs entirely on your machine. Projects and media are never uploaded, there are no clip limits, and your originals are never modified — it only ever writes new files.
Not a transcoder — it doesn't re-encode your masters. Not a grade translator — it reports grade intent, it doesn't recreate a look. Not a replacement for human QC — it makes the review faster, it doesn't replace the eyes.
Free during the invite-only beta. Konformer, the import side, is a free download either way.
Not testing yet? One email when it launches — nothing else.