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Using the Import Additional Clips commands: The process of importing media just for
missing clips in a timeline can be automated by right-clicking that timeline in the Media
Pool and using the Timelines > Import > Additional Clips With Loose (or Tight) Filename
Match contextual menu commands, which automatically search the selected directory
tree of your file system for media that matches all of the offline clips in that timeline.
The “Loose Filename Match” command ignores file extensions (letting you conform
to alternate media formats), while the “Tight Filename Match” command requires file
extensions to match.
Reconform online clips by importing new media into the Media Pool: As long as the
Automatically conform missing clips added to Media Pool” setting is enabled in the
General Options panel of the Project Settings, DaVinci Resolve automatically tries to
update the conformed relationship between clips you’re adding to the Media Pool and
any clips in the various timelines of your project that have their Conform Lock Enabled
setting turned off. This behavior is triggered whenever you add clips to the Media Pool
by importing clips, copying and pasting clips, or creating duplicates of clips.
By default, each clip that’s part of an imported timeline, or that you’ve edited into a brand
new timeline, has Conform Lock Enabled turned on by default (unless the source media
goes missing). Conform Lock Enabled simply means that a particular clip in a timeline is
set to only consider the source clip in the Media Pool to which it’s currently conformed
as the correct match; all other clips in the Media Pool are ignored, even if there are
multiple clips with the same file name and overlapping timecode that would make them
also a valid match (such as when you have multiple copies of the same clip that in
different formats, or multiple versions of VFX clips with the same name and timecode).
If you right-click a clip with multiple potential matches in the Media Pool in the timeline
and turn Conform Lock Enabled off, that clip will display a “clip conflict” error, with an
attention badge to the left of its name in the timeline. Double-clicking that badge
reveals a dialog showing you every clip in the Media Pool with a matching file name or
reel name and overlapping timecode, so that you can choose which Media Pool clip
you want to conform that timeline clip to.
Please note, the “Auto conform clips with media added into Media Pool” setting must
be disabled if you use collaborative workflow.
Using Conform Lock commands to force a timeline clip to conform itself to a clip
in the Media Pool: A manual command for conforming a selected clip in the timeline
with a selected clip in the Media Pool. Useful when none of the automated methods of
conforming work, for whatever reason.
Using the Relink command on clips or bins in the Media Pool: If you have a
DaVinci Resolve project in which there are unlinked clips in the Media Pool, that means
the relationship between those clips and their corresponding source media files on
disk have been lost. In this case, you can use the Relink Selected Clips or Relink Clips
in Selected Bins commands to relink clips to the corresponding source media on
whatever storage volume it’s on. In the process, you’ll automatically relink any instances
of those clips in all timelines in which they appear in that project. You can relink only
unlinked clips by selecting them specifically, but you can also relink clips that are
already linked if you want to force relink them to different media files (Relink Clips in
Selected Bins relinks both unlinked and linked clips at once). The Relink command
automatically searches all subdirectories within the currently selected directory, which
is useful if you’re relinking to media that’s been moved to another location, and that may
have a different directory structure as a result. However, a warning about searching
large SAN volumes – you probably don’t want to use this command to choose a
starting directory that’s too high up the file path, as the resulting search times may be
unexpectedly long.
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