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To add a subclip from a clip in the Media Storage panel to the Media Pool:
1 Single-click any clip in the Media Storage panel to open it into the Viewer in order to
create a subclip without needing to first import that clip into the Media Pool.
2 Set In and Out points in the Source Viewer to define the section you want to turn into a
subclip.
3 Do one of the following:
Right-click the jog bar and choose Make Subclip from the contextual menu
Drag the clip from the Viewer to the Media Pool to add it as a subclip
Adding Individual Frames From Image Sequences
If you’re working with image sequences, or with sequentially numbered image files from any
source, DaVinci Resolve automatically presents them as clips in the Media Storage panel. This
is good if that’s what they are, but there are instances where sets of photos, of which each
frame is in actuality a separate media file, are also sequentially numbered. For this reason, you
can import individual frames, rather than entire image sequences.
To add an individual frame from a number sequence of images in the Media Storage panel:
1 Click the Media Storage panel option menu, and choose Show Individual Frames. Each
image sequence is now separated into its individual frames, allowing you to select only
the frames you need.
2 Use any of the previous described methods to add the frames you want to the Media
Pool as individual clips.
Adding Media Based on EDLs
Another strategy for adding media to the Media Pool is to use an EDL to add only the clips it
refers to from a directory. This lets you add only the clips that are necessary for conforming a
particular imported project before conforming an EDL, and eliminates the need to add too much
media to the Media Pool, which might slow you down in the case of projects referencing
terabytes of media. Furthermore, you can choose multiple EDLs to base the import on, and
many directories to examine.
The EDLs will reference clips via their timecode and sometimes reel name and path. It is these
settings and the conform frame rate that you made previously in the Configuration screen that
are now used to place images correctly into the Media Pool.
To add only media used in an EDL to the Media Pool:
1 If necessary, open the General Options panel of the Project Settings, turn on the
Assistusing reel names from the” checkbox, and choose a method with which to
extract reel name information from the media files you’re about to import. For more
information, see Chapter 12, “Using Clip Metadata.”
2 Right-click a directory in the Media Storage panel, and choose one of the
followingcommands:
Add Folder Based on EDLs into Media Pool
Add Folder and SubFolders Based on EDLs into Media Pool
3 Using the file dialog that appears, select one or more EDLs to use.
DaVinci Resolve searches the directory hierarchy, either one level deep or all levels deep,
forevery media file matching the source timecode and the reel ID of an event in one of the
selected EDLs.
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