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Different Ways of Using Clip Metadata
To encourage you to take advantage of the clip metadata tools that exist in DaVinci Resolve,
here’s a short list of the many different ways you can use clip metadata to help you work faster.
 Searching for clips in the Media Pool
 Searching for clips in the Timeline
 Sorting the Media Pool by metadata columns in list view
 Creating Smart Bins in the Edit page
 Creating Timeline Filters in the Color page
 Using Metadata to create clip Clip Names
 Displaying Metadata in frame using the Color page Burn In palette
Renaming Clips Using Clip Names
The most fundamental piece of clip metadata is each clip’s name, which is used to identify clips
nearly everywhere they appear inside DaVinci Resolve. By default, clips show the file name of
the corresponding media file on disk. Since the dawn of tapeless recording, however, editors
have been stuck with camera original media having names that are not exactly
“human readable.”
Fortunately, you have the option of entering a more user-friendly clip name to use instead, while
preserving the original file name that’s critical for maintaining the link between a clip and its
media, as well as for tracking an offline clip’s corresponding link to the online media from which
it originated. There are a few ways you can edit the clip name of a clip.
NOTE: You can also edit the clip names of timelines, compound clips, and multicam
clips, so that you can have two sets of naming conventions for these items, one for
when you’re doing creative editing, and one for when you’re doing finishing tasks.
To edit a clip’s clip name, do one of the following:
 In the Media Pool’s Icon view, click a clip’s name once, pause a moment, then
click a second time to select the name, type a new name, then press return to accept
the name.
 In the Media Pool’s List view, the Clip Name mirrors the source clip’s file name
(hidden by default), but you can click the Clip Name column for any clip to add a new
name from scratch.
 With the Clip Name column exposed in the Media Pool’s List view, Option-click the Clip
Name column for any clip to edit the file name, rather than entering a brand new name.
 To edit the clip name of multiple clips, select all of the clips for which you want to
change the clip name, then right-click one of the selected clips and choose Clip
Attributes. Open the Name panel of the Clip Attributes window, edit the Clip Name
field, and click OK.
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