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decide later that you want to switch one or all of the clips in the timeline to use the original camera media instead for grading and finishing. DaVinci Resolve has a wide variety of tools to support these workflows and more.
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: