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It’s important to point out, however, that as much intrinsic metadata is available to every clip in
DaVinci Resolve (clip properties including frame rate, frame size, codec, file name, and so on),
the more time you take entering extra metadata in the Metadata Editor to prepare your project
for work for editing and grading (for example, entering scene and take information, and
keywords for things like character names, day and night, interior and exterior, framing, and so
on), the more powerful Smart Filters can be in helping you to sift and sort through the contents
of a program you’re grading.
Imagine being able to filter out all the closeups associated with a particular person in a
program, or finding all the establishing shots corresponding to a particular location. If you or an
assistant can take the time to enter metadata for the source material in a project that identifies
these characteristics, you’ll be able to work even more quickly to match shots together and find
the clips you need for any given situation.
To create a Smart Filter:
1 Click the Timeline Filtering drop-down button to the right of the Clips button at the top
right of the DaVinci Resolve UI, and choose Create Smart Filter.
2 In the Create Smart Filter dialog, enter a name for the filter, and use the following controls
to create one or more filter criteria (you can have as many filter criteria as you like):
The Create Smart Filter dialog
 Match options: For multi-criteria filtering, choosing All ensures that every single criteria
you specify is met for a clip to be filtered. Any means that if only one out of several
criteria is met, that clip will be filtered.
 Filter criteria enable checkbox: Lets you enable or disable any criteria without having
to delete it.
 Metadata category drop-down: Lets you choose which category of metadata you want
to select a criteria from. Each category of metadata that’s available in the Metadata
Editor is available from this drop-down menu. Additionally, Color Timeline Properties
(containing many properties unique to the Color page timeline) and Media Pool
Properties (containing every column in the Media Pool) provide access to additional
metadata you can use for filtering.
 Metadata type drop-down: For choosing which exact type of metadata to use, of the
options available in the selected metadata category.
 Metadata criteria drop-down: Lets you choose the criteria by which to filter, depending
on the metadata you’ve selected. Options include “true/false,” integer ranges, date
ranges, string searches, flag and marker colors, and so on.
 Add filter criteria button: Lets you add additional criteria to create multi-criteria filters.
You could use multiple criteria to, for example, find all clips from Scene 2, that also
contain the keyword “Diana,” that also have the keyword “CU” in order to find all the
Scene 2 close-ups of Diana. Additionally, if you Option-click this button, you can add a
nested match option in order to create even more sophisticated filters, where the filter
must match all of one set of criteria, and any of another set of criteria.
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