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4 In the “Select EDL files for splitting clips” dialog that appears, navigate to the EDL that
matches the flattened master media file, select it, and click Open.
5 Select the frame rate of the project from the File Conform Frame Rate dialog that
appears. This frame rate should be identical to the “Timeline frame rate” pop-up you
set in step 1.
6 Choose the appropriate options in the “Enter handle size for splitting” dialog
thatappears:
Handle size in number of frames: Enter a number of frames to be added as handles
to the first and last frame of the clip. This is useful when you’re using the “Split and
Add into Media Pool” command to import only the referenced sections of a directory
of individual media files.
Split Unreferred Clips: Useful when the referenced media files include segments
that aren’t “referred to” by any events within the EDL used to split them. Turning this
checkbox on adds all such unreferred clip segments to the Media Pool as separate
clips, for possible later use.
7 Click Split & Add. The Media Pool fills up with individual segments of the flattened
master media file, each of which matches an event in the EDL you used to split it.
8 To import the corresponding EDL to create a timeline with this media, do one
ofthefollowing:
From any page, choose File > Import AAF, EDL, XML (Shift-Command-I).
Right-click anywhere in the background of the Media Pool, and choose Timelines >
Import > AAF/EDL/XML.
9 In the “Choose a file to import” dialog that appears, navigate to the EDL that matches
the flattened master media file, select it, and click Open.
10 Choose whatever options are necessary from the Load EDL dialog that appears (the
default settings should work fine), and click OK.
The Master Timeline and the timeline you just imported appear in the Media Pool, the Conform
EDL list updates with the events from the imported EDL, and the Timeline editor shows the
edited clips, ready for grading. Clips that could not be linked to a corresponding file in the
Media Pool appear with a red x to indicate that they’re unconformed.
Importing an EDL to a New Track
This last procedure describes how to add an EDL, not as an individual new Timeline, but as an
additional video track to an existing Timeline. There are many reasons you might want to do
this. For example, if you need to move a multi-track project to DaVinci Resolve from an
application that can’t export either AAF or XML project exchange files that DaVinci Resolve
understands, you can use multiple EDLs. Simply export each track of the source project as an
individual EDL, and then import each EDL into DaVinci Resolve as additional tracks of the
same Timeline.
This is also useful for workflows where effects clips are being managed on a separate track
assembled elsewhere, that you can then import directly into a graded Timeline to place many
new effects clips all at once.
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