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7 When you’re done choosing these settings, click Start. A progress bar appears showing
you how long the operation will take.
A subset of media used by that timeline is copied to the specified directory, and is
automatically relinked to the timeline and clips in the Media Pool. You are now ready to
continue working on the project.
Options in the Media
Management Window
The different Media Management operations offer different options.
 Entire Project Copy/Move/Transcode all media: (Not available for Timelines) Choosing
this option copies the full amount of source media for every single clip in the project.
If you add more media later, and then use the Copy function again, DaVinci Resolve will
only copy the additional files needed to reflect the current Media Pool.
 Media Destination: Click the Browse button to choose a destination to which to copy
the managed media. To create a new directory, right-click a Volume icon in the File
Browser list, choose New Folder, type a name into the resulting dialog, and click OK.
 Timeline selections: If you’ve selected the Timelines mode of media management, you
can open the Timeline Selection controls and turn on the checkbox by each timeline
with media you want to include.
 Copy/Move/Transcode all media: Copies all media available to that operation.
 Copy/Move/Transcode only used media files: Only copies media files for clips that are
used in a timeline, and copies them in their entirety.
 Copy/Move/Transcode and Trim used media keeping x frame handles: Only copies
media files that are used in a timeline, but eliminates unused heads and tails except for
user-specified handles.
 Consolidate multiple edit segments into one media file: (Found by opening more
options) This option only becomes available if you’ve selected “Copy and trim used
media” If multiple clips in a timeline come from the same media file, then a single
consolidated media file will be generated that contains all frames from all of these
clips, along with whatever additional frames lie between them. Even though this
option results in more media being copied or moved, it’s extremely useful if you’re
consolidating media that you want to grade using the automatic grade linking of remote
versions, as this preserves the original relationship between each Timeline clip and the
source media file it’s from.
 Preserve folder hierarchy after x levels deep: (Found by opening more options)
Retains a user-specified depth of the original directory structure used by a clip’s
corresponding source media file, recreating it when rendering new files for output.
The number you select determines how many levels of subdirectories DaVinci Resolve
will automatically create within the currently specified “Render job to” directory to
match the path used by the source files. Defaults to 0, which creates no matching
subdirectories. The number of path levels is defined relative to the head of each media
file path.
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