User Manual

To create a new Master Timeline:
1 Create a new project, open the General Options panel of the Project Settings, and turn
on the “Automatically match master timeline with media pool” checkbox. If you also
want all clips to use Remote versions as you grade by default as in previous versions of
DaVinci Resolve, you can turn off the “Use local version for new clips in timeline.”
The option to use a Master Timeline is in the Color section
of the General Options panel of the Project Settings
2 Click Save to close the Project Settings window.
3 Open the Edit page, and choose File > New Timeline (Command-N).
4 When the New Timeline Properties window appears, turn the Empty Timeline checkbox
off, and click Create New Timeline.
Now, in addition to the new timeline, a Master Timeline appears in the Timeline list.
TIP: If you want to make sure that you always have a Master Timeline when
you create new projects, you can alter the Project Setting preset for your user
account to reflect these settings, or you can create a new Project Setting
preset with these settings that you can easily switch to.
Creating a Master Timeline
The Master Timeline consists of one long sequence of every clip in the Media Pool, arranged
in ascending order by timecode. Each clip in the Master Timeline appears at its full duration,
regardless of the duration of corresponding clips in an EDL-, AAF-, or XML-imported timeline.
Whenever you add more clips to the Media Pool, they’re automatically added to the
MasterTimeline.
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