User Manual

Adding Media to the Media Pool
At minimum, you’ll be using the Media page to add clips to a project to begin editing, in
preparation to create dailies, or as a prelude to conforming a project using an EDL. All clips you
want to work with must first be added to the Media Pool to be available for grading and
processing in DaVinci Resolve, regardless of whether or not there’s edited project data to go
along with it.
If you import XML or AAF projects, you can choose to automatically import all accompanying
media as part of the import process you initiate in the Edit page. However, if you find yourself
needing to replace updated effects or stock footage in the Timeline, or you’re called upon to
add additional media such as animated titles or superimposed clips for compositing, then you’ll
still need to use the Media page to do so.
Whatever kind of project you’re working on, you can add clips to the Media Pool from as many
different volumes as you need. All imported clips are linked to the original media on whichever
disks you found them; files are not moved, copied, or otherwise transcoded when you add
them to the Media Pool. Consequently, it’s a good idea to make sure that all media you want to
import into your project has already been copied to a suitably fast volume before importing it.
Basic Methods for Adding Media in the Media Page
There are several ways of adding clips to the Media Pool.
To add individual clips from the Media Storage panel to the Media Pool:
1 Use the Media Storage panel to find a media file to import.
2 If you have multiple bins available in the Bin list, choose the bin you want to add the
incoming media to.
3 Do one of the following:
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Shift-click or Command-click multiple files, then right-click one of the selected files
and choose “Add into Media Pool.”
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Drag a clip from the Media Storage panel browser to the Media Pool or to a specific
bin in the Bin list.
4 If a dialog appears asking if you want to change your project to match the criteria, click
“Change” to alter the project’s settings, or click “Don’t Change” to continue importing
the media while leaving the project at its previous frame rate. Once clips have been
imported into the Media Pool, the frame rate cannot be changed again, so choose
carefully.
You also have the option of dragging media directly from the file system of supported platforms
into the Media Pool.
To drag one or more clips from the File System to the Media Pool (supported platforms only):
1 Select one or more clips in your File System.
2 Drag those clips into the Media Pool of DaVinci Resolve or to a specific bin in the Bin list.
Those clips are added to the Media Pool of your project.
If you need to add the contents of all directories and subdirectories to the Media Pool as a flat
group of media, that’s easily accomplished. A good example of this is when you’re importing
camera original media from a cloned file structure, in which clips are organized into
subdirectories that are many levels deep. DaVinci Resolve can easily import all of these clips
and put them all into the same bin.
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