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Playing Media in the Media Storage Browser
You can select media in the Media Storage Browser to play directly in the Media page Viewer,
without importing it, so long as it’s in a format that DaVinci Resolve supports. This is useful for
previewing clips that you’re considering using in a project, but it’s also useful for quality control
review sessions of media that you’ve exported from DaVinci Resolve. All clips that are played in
the Media page Viewer are also output to video, if you have a supported Blackmagic output
interface. You can also output the video to a second monitor by choosing Workspace > Video
Clean Feed, and selecting your monitor. Additionally, if you choose Workspace > Dual Screen >
On, the second computer display is capable of displaying a set of video scopes on the Media
page, which can help you QC a program you’re delivering.
Playing DCP and IMF Packages
It’s also possible to use the Media Storage Browser to select and play DCP and IMF packages
that have been exported either using EasyDCP or using the native DCP/IMF export capabilities
of DaVinci Resolve. Simply locate the package, select it, and play it in the Viewer like any other
clip. It will be output to video and analyzed by the video scopes.
DCP and IMF packages can also be imported from Media Storage to the Media Pool for various
workflows. For more information, see Chapter 167, “Delivering DCP and IMF.”
The Media Storage Browser’s Volume List
At the left of the Media Storage browser is a list of all volumes that are currently available to
your DaVinci Resolve workstation. It’s used to locate media that you want to import manually
into your project. The list is divided into two vertical areas of volumes. At the top are the actual
volumes on your workstation:
 Scratch volumes: Indicated by a usage statistic to the right of the volume name that
lists how full that volume is, these are disks that you’ve added to the Media Storage
panel of the System Preferences window. The topmost of these scratch disks is used to
store Gallery stills and cache files.
 Available volumes: Indicated by disk icons, this is a list of all fixed, removable,
and network volumes that are currently available to your workstation. When the
“Automatically display attached local and network storage locations” checkbox is
turned on in the Media Storage panel of the DaVinci Resolve Preferences, new volumes
that are attached to your workstation should automatically appear in this list.
This is a hierarchical list; clicking the disclosure triangle to the left of any volume opens up an
additional list of that volume’s subdirectories, with additional disclosure triangles next to each
subdirectory. Using the Media Storage browser, you can drill down into as many subdirectories
as you need to.
Adding Volumes That Don’t Appear in This List
If you need to access a storage volume that doesn’t appear on this list, for example if you’re
using the version of DaVinci Resolve that is available in the Apple App Store, then you can
right-click anywhere in the background of the Volume list and choose “Add New Location” to
open a dialog you can use to choose a volume you want to add.
If you’re using the Apple App Store version of DaVinci Resolve, auto-mounting of attached
storage volumes is not enabled automatically. However, you can enable this in the Media
Storage panel of the DaVinci Resolve Preferences. For more information, see the
DaVinci Resolve Preferences section of Chapter 3, “System and User Preferences.”
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