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Copy and paste clips from a timeline in one project to a timeline in another.
Copy a node’s settings from one project and paste them to a node in another project.
You can also copy and paste clips, timelines, and node settings from one project to another
without using dynamic project switching, but using switching makes this process faster.
Archiving and Restoring Projects
DaVinci Resolve has a convenient feature for quickly archiving every single media file used by
aproject, including subtitle files, along with the project itself, to a single location. This can be
done to hand a project off to another DaVinci Resolve user, or to bundle a project and its media
up for either short- or long-term archiving using the backup methodology of your choice.
Theprocess is simple.
To Archive a project:
1 Open the Project Manager.
2 Locate and right-click the project you want to archive, and choose Archive.
The contextual menu command for archiving projects
3 When the Archive Project window appears, choose a location to save the archive.
Make sure you choose a volume that’s large enough to accommodate the size of all the
media from the project you’re archiving, and click Save.
4 When the Archive dialog appears, verify the location the archive will be saved to, and
choose which optional media you want to save within the archive. You can optionally
save Optimized media and/or Render Cache media associated with a project.
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