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So long as remote versions are enabled, there are other ways that linked clip relationships are
formed. If, after conforming an AAF, XML, or EDL, you used the Split Clips button in the Color
page to split one conformed clip into many, each of the clips you split would be linked, since
they too would share the same source media in the Media Pool.
Finally, automated linking also occurs for clips that appear in multiple timelines that also use
remote versions. As a result, the grade you apply to one linked clip is automatically rippled to
every other clip it’s linked to.
NOTE: Media management or media consolidation operations that split large source
media files into many individual media files will defeat automatic linking within the
same timeline, since each clip will be conformed to its own individual media file.
Starting with Remote Versions, Then Switching to Local Versions
It’s possible to combine the best aspects of remote and local versions into a single
workflow, taking advantage of your ability to freely switch from one to the other. Since
remote versions make it easy to copy grades among clips that are similar, you can
switch to using remote versions first, and then grade your way through the Timeline
until you get to the point where you need to start making much more specific changes
to individual clips. Then, it’s easy to either switch each linked clip that needs individual
adjustment to use a local version, or to use the Copy Remote Grades To Local
command (described later) to copy the current remote version of each and every clip to
a local version, at which point you can make all the specific tweaks you need to without
worrying about changes being accidentally copied.
Creating a Master Timeline
DaVinci Resolve version 9 and earlier would automatically create a Master Timeline whenever
you added clips to the Media Pool. This changed in versions 10 and later, which by default have
no Master Timeline. However, if you want to create a Master Timeline in order to use it as you
would have before, this is easy to do.
If you want a Master Timeline to have a single timeline that always contains all clips currently in
the Media Pool, there’s a way you can create one. However, you need to do it immediately upon
creating a new project, before adding any media to the Media Pool. Once you’ve added one or
more clips to the Media Pool, the option you need to do so will be disabled.
To create a new Master Timeline:
1 Create a new project, open the General Options panel of the Project Settings, and turn
on the “Automatically match master timeline with media pool” checkbox in the Color
section. If you also want all clips to use Remote versions as you grade by default as
in previous versions of DaVinci Resolve, you can turn off the “Store grade with local
version by default” checkbox.
2 Click Save.
3 Open the Edit page, and choose File > New Timeline (Command-N).
4 When the New Timeline Properties window appears, turn the Empty Timeline checkbox
off, and click Create New Timeline.
Now, in addition to the new Timeline, a Master Timeline appears in the Timeline list.
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