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An important aspect of the Reconform From Bins command is that DaVinci Resolve only

reconforms timeline clips that can be matched to source clips in selected Media Pool bins.

Alltimeline clips that cannot be matched are left alone. This makes Reconform From Bins an

ideal command to use when you’ve imported a subset of clips to the Media Pool that you need

to reconform to clips found throughout an existing timeline. For example, you could use this

method to:

 Replace transcoded versions of clips in a timeline with the original camera raw clips.

 Replace the previous versions of VFX clips in a timeline with new versions.

 Replace the offline-quality media you’ve been working with so far with

online-qualitymedia.

 Replace the temp clips you were originally given with rescanned or recaptured

stockfootage.

To use Reconform From Bins, it’s important to organize the clips you’re adding to the Media

Pool sensibly, in a self-contained bin or bins separate from the other media used by that

timeline. It can be a sub-bin, but it must be separate.

Here’s a simple example. If the media you edited or originally imported is in Bin 1, then import

the updated versions of all clips that need to be reconformed into Bin 2. Using Reconform From

Bins, you can then decide whether the clips in your timeline should be conformed to Bin 1, or

Bin 2 when possible, because only timeline clips for which there is a valid match are

reconformed, while all other timeline clips are ignored.

DaVinci Resolve has the ability to choose custom conform options to control what metadata is

used to match timeline clips to source clips in the Media Pool. This means that you’re not

restricted to only using Timecode, Reel Name, and File Name, you could also use any

combination of Total Duration, Resolution, Bit Depth, Frame Rate, File Format, Codec, and/or

Media UMID/UID to control how clips are conformed, depending on your needs and the

problem you have to solve.

The Reconform from Bins dialog

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