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A Usage column shows how many times a clip is
used in every timeline, after analysis
NOTE: The usage column increments for each clip item that appears in the Timeline.
This means that if a clip consists of one video item and one video item linked together,
the usage column will show the number 2.
Relinking Media Simply
DaVinci Resolve keeps track of the relationship between clips in your project and their
corresponding source media on disk. If, for whatever reason, source media that links to clips in
your project becomes unavailable, DaVinci Resolve has several different methods of relinking
those clips in the Media Pool.
This section summarizes the top two methods of relinking. For more comprehensive information
on conforming projects and relinking media, see Chapter 47, “Conforming and Relinking Clips.”
Relink Selected Clips
The easiest method of relinking clips in your project that have gone offline is to use the
appropriately named “Relink selected clips” command. This is the most flexible method of
relinking clips in your project with clips in a file system directory of your choice, using file name
and timecode as the primary criteria for drawing a correspondence between each clip and the
corresponding media file on disk. When you relink clips this way, the original file path in
DaVinci Resolve is ignored, so this is a good command to use to relink to media that’s been
reorganized on disk.
To relink selected clips:
1 Do one of the following:
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Select one or more clips in the Media Pool browser that you want to relink, then
right-click one of the selected clips or the selected bin, and choose “Relink Selected
Clips” from the contextual menu.
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Select a bin in the Media Pool Bin list that contains clips you want to relink, then
right-click one of the selected clips or the selected bin, and choose “Relink Clips for
Selected Bin” from the contextual menu.
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