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What is Media Management in
DaVinciResolve?
If you’ve edited a program within DaVinci Resolve, you can use the Media Management
command to take care of a variety of tasks, including but not limited to:
Moving all clips used in a project to a specific storage location.
Creating a duplicate of your project’s clips that eliminates unused media in preparation
for handing the media off to another facility.
Transcoding all clips in a timeline to another format while eliminating unused heads
andtails.
For example, if you’re preparing to export a project to hand off to another DaVinci Resolve user
somewhere else, or even an XML or AAF to give to someone using a completely different NLE
or finishing application, you can use Media Management in DaVinci Resolve to consolidate and
relink the media used by the timeline you’re handing off, so the exported project or timeline
references a smaller set of media.
Even if you’re not handing a project off, if you’ve ingested an enormous amount of source media
into a project, and after the majority of the editing decide that you want to create a consolidated
set of the media you’re using in order to lighten the project’s load in the Media Pool, you can
create a duplicate of the media to reconform to, omitting unused clips and trimming the unused
heads and tails of the clips you are using in the process.
But Media Management isn’t just useful for projects you’ve edited in DaVinci Resolve. For
example, if you’re importing a project from another application and you’ve been given an
enormous amount of source media to conform to, you may be hesitant to copy all of it to your
accelerated storage volume, since (a) most of it is probably unused by the project file you’ve
been given, (b) it’ll take forever to copy from the cheap USB 2 hard drive theyve given you, and
(c) it will clog up your local storage, taking valuable space away from other projects. In this case,
you can use the Media Management to copy a reduced set of media files consisting of only the
clips used in the current timeline of the Edit page.
File Formats that are Compatible
with Media Management
No matter what you use if for, Media Management is designed to work with all video formats
that are have decode support within DaVinci Resolve, and is capable of outputting a few more
formats than the Deliver page can. Compatible formats include but are not limited to:
QuickTime
MXF
R3D
Image-based raw media formats including CinemaDNG raw and Alexa raw
DPX, EXR, JPEG 2000, TIFF, Cineon, and other compatible image sequence formats
AVI
H.264
XAVC
AVC-Intra
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