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The Difference Between Conforming and Relinking
While these two terms are often used synonymously, conforming typically refers to the
process of matching clips in a timeline to the appropriate source clips in the Media Pool, while
relinking typically refers to the process of matching a source clip in the Media Pool to its
corresponding media file on disk. This is a recent change necessitated by an expansion of
relinking and reconforming options, so the author offers his apologies if this usage is not
always consistent.
The Difference Between
Unlinked and Missing Clips
While it may seem pedantic, there’s an important difference between clips that are unlinked, and clips
that are missing when it comes to the relationship between clips in the Media Pool and clips in a
Timeline. First off, both of these “offline” clip states look different in the timeline, but these differences
aren’t just cosmetic.
A missing clip in the Timeline (left) compared to an unlinked clip in the Timeline (right)
An unlinked clip is a clip that exists in the Media Pool, but has lost the link to its corresponding media
file on disk. However, unlinked clips still contain metadata, they still have a relationship to instances of
that clip that have been edited into timelines in your project, and they can be easily relinked to media
files with matching file names and timecode using the Relink command (described later), or
reconformed to previously or newly imported clips in specific bins of the Media Pool with the
Reconform From Bins command (also described later).
Missing clips do not exist in the Media Pool at all, although clips flagged as missing can still appear in
the timelines of your project. However, since missing timeline clips have no corresponding source clips
in the Media Pool, the clip in the timeline has no metadata that can be seen in the Metadata Editor, and
it will have lost any remote grades that are associated with that source clip (for more information about
remote grades, see Chapter 139, “Grade Management.” You can fix missing clips in a timeline in one
of two ways:
– If the “Automatically conform missing clips added to Media Pool” setting is enabled in the General
Options panel of the Project Settings, then simply reimport the corresponding source clips into
the Media Pool and they will be automatically conformed to missing clips with matching timecode
and file names in the timeline (this only happens at the time of import, it doesn’t work for matching
clips that are already in the Media Pool). Please note, this setting must be disabled if you use
collaborativeworkflow.
– If the “Automatically conform missing clips added to Media Pool” setting is disabled in the General
Options panel of the Project Settings, then you’ll have to import the missing clips and either
manually reconform them one at a time to the missing timeline clips using the Conform Lock with
Media Pool Clip command, or use the Reconform From Bin(s) or Import Additional Clips With
Loose/Tight Filename Match commands to try reconforming them all at once.
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