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Organizing Media by Creating Subclips
Subclips give you another way of organizing media in the Media Pool, letting you break
excessively long clips into shorter ones. For example, if the director of a project is fond of
“rolling takes” where multiple takes are all recorded within a single clip, you can break these
takes up by making them into subclips.
To create a subclip in the Edit page:
1 Do one of the following to open a clip into the Source Viewer in either the Media page
or the Edit page, in preparation for creating subclips.
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Double-click any clip in the Media Pool.
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Single-click any clip in the Media Library of the Media page 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:
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Choose Mark > Create Subclip.
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Press Option-B.
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Right-click the jog bar and choose Make Subclip from the contextual menu.
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Drag a clip from the Source Viewer to the Media Pool
A new subclip appears in the Media Pool, automatically selected so that you can
immediately edit its metadata in the Metadata Editor.
Once created, subclips appear and work like any other clip in DaVinci Resolve. You can also
create subclips in the Media page while performing other organizational tasks there.
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