Blackmagic Design DV/RESSTUD User Manual

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Lesson 16 Managing Media andDatabases

8 Select “Relink to new files” to use the new, copied media in the timeline instead of

theexisting media.

If you were finalizing these steps, you would now click Start to begin consolidating

themedia, but in this case do not do so.

After you started the consolidation process, the files used in the timeline would be copied

to the destination drive, and then trimmed so that only the clip portions in usewere saved

to disk —along with a half-second handle on each side of a clip.

The clips in your bin would now link to these new, shorter media files, but all of the original

clips would still remain in their original locations. It would remain for you to delete them

when you were confident that you would no longer need them.

Copying Projects and Media

toaNewHardDrive

Although consolidating media can save you the most storage space, it addresses only

themedia. Your timelines, clips, and metadata are not included. The easiest way to copy,

back up, or move a single project and all of its content from one computer to another is to

use DaVinci Resolve’s archive and restore features. Archiving a project collects all your

files(even if they are on different drives) and places them in the destination folder of

yourchoice along with the project file. To archive a project, you must do so using the

ProjectManagerwindow.

NOTE The following exercises use a second hard drive for copying and transcoding

media. If you do not have a second hard drive or do not want to take up valuable disk

space by copying and/or moving the training media from this book, you can still read

through the lesson to gain an understanding of theprocess.

1 Open the Project manager, right-click the Age of Airplanes project thumbnail,

andchoose Export Project Archive.

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