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Continuing Media Management Jobs on Error
DaVinci Resolve has a more user-friendly behavior when dealing with errors during media management operations. In previous versions, DaVinci Resolve would stop and wait for user input immediately upon encountering an error, meaning that if an error happened while you were out at lunch, nothing would happen until you came back. Now, DaVinci Resolve will skip error-flagged files and continue to perform any remaining media management to all the other clips.
Options in the Media Management Window
The different Media Management operations offer different options.
— Entire Project Copy/Transcode all media: (Not available for Timelines) Choosing this option copies the full amount of source media for every single clip in the project. If you add more media later, and then use the Copy function again, DaVinci Resolve will only copy the additional files needed to reflect the current Media Pool.
— Destination: Click the Browse button to choose a destination to which to copy the managed media. To create a new directory, right-click a Volume icon in the File Browser list, choose New Folder, type a name into the resulting dialog, and click OK.
— Timeline selections: If you’ve selected the Timelines mode of media management, you can open the Timeline Selection controls and turn on the checkbox by each timeline with media you want to include.
— Copy/Transcode All media: Copies all media available to that operation.
— Copy/Transcode Used media: Only copies media files for clips that are used in a timeline, and copies them in their entirety.
— Copy/Transcode Used media and trim keeping x frame handles: Only copies media files that are used in a timeline, but eliminates unused heads and tails except for user-specified handles.
— Use project name subfolder: Automatically creates a subfolder named for the project under the destination directory that contains all the copied or transcoded media.
— Consolidate multiple edit segments into one media file: This option only becomes available if you’ve selected “Copy and trim used media” If multiple clips in a timeline come from the same
media file, then a single consolidated media file will be generated that contains all frames from all of these clips, along with whatever additional frames lie between them. Even though this option results in more media being copied or moved, it’s extremely useful if you’re consolidating media that you want to grade using the automatic grade linking of remote versions, as this preserves the original relationship between each Timeline clip and the source media file it’s from.