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To use Media Management to create a consolidated duplicate
of media for a project you’re conforming:
1 Connect the portable drive containing the media to be conformed to your workstation.
2 Import the AAF or XML project file you were given into the Edit page, and conform it
to the media on the portable drive you connected in step 1. You’re only doing this to
identify what clips you need to media manage, not because you’ll be working off that
volume.
3 Choose File > Media Management. The Media Management window appears.
4 Choose Timelines at the top of the window, and then open the Timeline selection
section and turn on the checkbox of the timeline you want to consolidate the media for.
5 Click the Browse button and choose the volume you want to write the consolidated
media to.
6 Choose the following options for consolidating the media. For this operation, you’ll want
to enable:
Click the Browse button, and choose the accelerated storage volume you’re using
for all media you’re using with DaVinci Resolve.
Choose the “Timelines” Media Management scope, if it’s not selected already, to
manage all media from the selected timeline.
Choose “Copy” to make a duplicate of the media from the portable storage volume
to your accelerated storage.
Choose “Copy and trim used media keeping 12 frame handles” if you’re comfortable
with 12 frame handles.
Open More Options and turn on “Consolidate multiple edit segments into one media
file” if you don’t mind having larger media files that preserve the relationship of what
clips come from which single media files. This can make grading simpler later on.
Turn on “Relink to new files” to automatically relink the timeline you’ve selected to
the new media that’s being generated.
The Consolidate dialog lets you choose how and where to copy the
trimmed media (the Timeline Selection options are scrolled offscreen)
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