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Using Conform Lock As a Command
If, for whatever reason, an unlinked clip in a timeline simply won’t conform to a clip in the Media
Pool, even when you know it’s there, you can use the “Conform Lock with Media Pool Clip”
command to force a clip in the Timeline to conform to a clip in the Media Pool of your choosing.
This command automatically suspends the Conform Lock Enabled setting of a target clip and
ignores file names and reel names in favor of conforming the target clip to another clip that
you’ve manually selected, while timecode is still used to align the clip being conformed with the
clip that was in the Timeline originally.
To conform lock a clip in the Timeline to another clip in the Media Pool:
1 Select a clip in the Media Pool. The clip you select in the Media Pool must be equal in
length or longer than the clip you select in the Timeline for Force Reconform to work.
2 Right-click an unconformed clip in the Timeline, and choose “Conform Lock with Media
Pool Clip” from the contextual menu. The selected clip in the Timeline is conformed to
the clip you selected in the Media Pool in one of two ways:
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If the selected Media Pool clip has timecode matching the selected Timeline clip:
The new clip is perfectly conformed to match the original clip.
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If the selected Media Pool clip doesn’t have timecode matching the selected
Timeline clip: The new clip is conformed such that the first frame of the Media
Pool clip is aligned with the first frame of the reconformed clip in the Timeline, and
occupies the same duration.
3 If you right-click that clip again, you’ll see that Conform Lock Enabled is enabled,
showing you that the clip has been conform locked to media for which it wasn’t
originally a match.
Relinking Clips to Media Files on Disk
The easiest and best known method of relinking clips in your project that have either gone
offline or are not linked to the correct set of media files on disk is to use the appropriately
named “Relink selected clips” command. Note, the Relink command will only work for clips that
are unlinked, it will not work for clips that are missing and so have no corresponding clips in the
Media Pool.
The Relink command is the most flexible method of relinking clips in the Media Pool of your
project with clips in a file system directory of your choice, using file name and timecode as the
primary criteria for re-creating the correspondence between each clip and its corresponding
media file on disk. This is a good command to use to relink media that’s been moved to another
location or reorganized using another file structure on disk.
To relink selected clips:
1 Select one or more offline clips to relink, or select a bin in the Media Pool bin list
that contains clips you want to relink, then right-click one of the selected clips or the
selected bin, and choose “Relink Selected Clips” from the contextual menu.
2 When the Relink File dialog opens, choose a directory in which to look for the files
you want to relink to, and click OK. DaVinci Resolve attempts to find every clip with a
matching file name in the subdirectories of the directory you chose, using the original
file paths of the clips being relinked to do this as quickly as possible. By first looking for
the clips in the directories they were originally in, relinking can be quite fast.
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