Opening Phantom .cine Files in DaVinci Resolve on a Mac

DaVinci Resolve reads Phantom .cine files natively, raw and with the camera's color. A couple of clip attributes are worth setting so slow motion plays at the speed you expect and anamorphic footage has the right shape.

1. Import the .cine files

Drag the offloaded .cine files into the Media Pool. Files written by MagDock are 10-bit packed raw .cine with the camera's image settings and per-frame timestamps, and they open in DaVinci Resolve 18.6 and later.

2. Use the camera's color

In the Camera Raw settings, keep Decode using: Clip. Resolve then applies the color matrix and tone curve recorded by the camera, which is also what MagDock's playback preview shows. Switch to Project settings only if you want to grade every clip from a common raw starting point.

3. Set the frame rate

Resolve currently shows MagDock clips at 30 fps. Right-click the clips → Clip Attributes → Video → Video Frame Rate and set your project's playback rate, for example 24 or 25 fps. A take recorded at 600 fps and played at 25 fps runs 24× slower than real time.

4. Anamorphic footage

Resolve does not read the anamorphic squeeze from the file. For 2× anamorphic takes, open Clip Attributes → Video → Pixel Aspect Ratio and choose the anamorphic setting that matches your lens, so a 4096×2304 2× take shows at its real 2.35:1 shape.

Why offload to .cine and not convert?

A .cine copy is bit-exact: the raw frames exactly as stored on the CineMag, plus the metadata Resolve and other tools need. You keep the full dynamic range for grading and can always make proxies or ProRes later.