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Finding Clips, Media, Markers, Gaps, and Timelines
DaVinci Resolve has several methods of locating clips, markers, and gaps, to help you troubleshoot problem timelines, or to find media that you want to edit into a timeline differently.
Finding Clips in the Timeline
DaVinci Resolve makes it easy to find one or more clips in the Timeline that correspond to specific criteria using the Edit Index.
1 Open the Edit Index.
2 Click the magnifying glass button to open the search controls.
3 Choose a criteria from the Filter By drop-down menu.
4 Type a search term in the Search field at the top right of the Edit Index.
As soon as you start typing, all edit events that don’t match the search criteria are temporarily hidden. To show all of the clips in the Edit Index again, click the X at the right of the search field.
5 Click any event in the Edit Index to move the playhead to that clip in the Timeline.
Finding Offline Clips in the Timeline
It’s also easy to use the Edit Index to find all of the offline clips that may be in the Timeline.
1 Open the Edit Index.
2 Click the Option menu of the Edit Index and choose Show Offline Clips Only.
3 The Edit Index is filtered to only show the offline clips in the currently open Timeline, and you can click any item on the list to jump the playhead to that particular clip in the Timeline.
4 Click any event in the Edit Index to move the playhead to that clip in the Timeline.
Finding Edit Index Events Using Clips in the Timeline
You can also locate specific Edit Index events using the Timeline playhead.
— Move the Timeline playhead to intersect a clip you want to find in the Edit Index. That clip’s corresponding event (or events if the playhead intersects multiple clips) are automatically highlighted in the Edit Index.
— To move the playhead to a clip in the Timeline via the Edit Index.
— Click any event in the Edit Index to move the Timeline playhead to the In point of that clip.