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Assigning a Clip or Timeline for Offline Comparison
There are two ways you can assign an Offline Reference Clip or Timeline to a particular timeline for
comparison. The easiest and most flexible way is to open a timeline, and then drag and drop a clip or
timeline with matching timecode that you want to compare to from the Media Pool onto the Source
Viewer in Offline mode.
To assign any clip or timeline to a specific timeline for comparison:
1 Open the timeline you want to make the assignment to in the Edit page.
2 Set the Source Viewer to Offline mode.
3 Drag a clip or timeline with matching timecode that you want to assign onto the Source Viewer.
The clip or timeline you dragged is immediately assigned to the open timeline as an Offline
Reference Clip, and synced via timecode.
4 In the Media Pool, right-click the Timeline you want to review against the Offline Reference
Clip, and choose the reference clip or timeline you assigned from the Timelines > Link Offline
Reference Clip submenu of that timeline’s contextual menu.
You can also add a clip to the Media Pool specifically as an Offline Reference Clip, making it easy to
associate such a clip with a particular timeline by right-clicking that timeline in the Media Pool and
choosing it from the Link Offline Video submenu. The idea is that if you or your client exports a
flattened version of their edited sequence at the same time as they export the EDL, AAF, or XML
project file they want graded, then you can compare the project data that’s imported into
DaVinci Resolve to the actual video of the offline edit.
To assign an imported Offline Reference Clip to a specific timeline for comparison:
1 Open the Media page, and use the Media Storage browser to find the flattened Offline Reference
Clip that you want to use for comparison.
2 Right-click the Offline Reference Clip file and choose Add as Offline Reference Clip.
3 That clip appears with a small checkerboard badge in its icon in the Media Pool.
Checkerboard indicating an offline video
4 Open the Edit page, right-click the timeline you want to review against the Offline Reference
Clip, and choose the offline clip you imported from the Timelines > Link Offline Reference
Clip submenu.
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