Exporting Timeline from Speedgrade

I am working with Premiere Pro and Speedgrade CC. I find using the direct-link is fine but a bit limiting in terms of the full potential of Speedgrade. The direct-link from Premiere Pro also seems to slow up my system and grading becomes very clunky despite my 3.5Ghz i7, 3Tb fusion drive, 4gb graphics card, 32gb ram brand new iMac27 !
So I have exported my timeline from Premiere pro as an EDL and imported the clips natively into Speedgrade. I can now add grading layers etc and the processor seems to deal with this much better. Grading is fast and efficient working with the clips this way. The problem i have now is exporting from Speedgrade and getting my timeline back into Premiere Pro for finishing , titling etc and final export.
I have managed by default i think to export my timeline as individual clips using the PathElement-0 option from the Render panel ( i found this on a tutorial ) and the clips are saved in a folder as .mov files. When I import these back into Premiere Pro they are in a random order and not in sequence.
How can i now re-form my timeline from these clips in Premiere ?
I have tried saving an EDL from the Timeline tab in Speedgrade but this just refers back to the imported non-graded clips NOT the new graded clips in my Speedgrade timeline ?
Does anyone have a good Premiere Pro / Speedgrade roundtrip that excludes the Direct-Link to Speedgrade ???
Thanks
Best
Mark

Sorry to be so long in replying ... but here's my bit. Adobe's staffers have indicated they are moving from the "old" EDL process to the direct-link, and so ... it's not a heavily supported nor even considered part of the internal thinking process ... I think that's fair to say. Still available but not emphasized? I've noted the staffers don't tend to work here so much with internal-Adobe EDL questions, mostly for those who are clearly working with timelines from other sources and therefore MUST use EDL & XML importing.
I'm wondering if part of your slow-down issues are waiting until your editing is finished to edit-lock & THEN only taking a "final" timeline into Sg? Prior to the CC-model with the Direct Link so heavily incorporated, that was the ONLY thing that made sense. Now, it's so fast to buzz forth & back that working sub-sequences is becoming common and "standard" ... if for no other reason than Sg is faster in d-l mode with shorter sequences, rather than say working a single 87 minute sequence. My personal model is to take sequences over for basic correction early on, pretty much as soon as I've got them mostly sorted. Especially if I've got b-roll the quality or "feel" of which I'm not sure. (Some of my b-roll is provided by others ...) After seeing the way the look can be worked with each, I may even change some of my sequence editing choices. And playing back the full Master sequence in the Program Monitor I can see if I need to adjust any sub-sequences to better match.
As to using the old way ... I think using proxies might work better, but I don't have much experience with that. I know that was standard and most colorists knew how to do that sleeping. I did it a few times, and once or twice even got it right first off without futzing. Other times I was on here for questions, which got some raised eye-brow comments back & forth between the Experienced Masters ... "geez, dumb noob's anywayz ... "
SpeedGrade can do this, the controls are still there and pretty much unchanged if I never learned to decipher the Gobbledeegook Speak. Check out some of the tutorials for CS6 days, as that was still heavily used at that time.
Neil

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