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Using Conform Lock As a Command
If, for whatever reason, an unlinked clip in a timeline simply won’t conform to a clip in the Media Pool, even when you know it’s there, you can use the “Conform Lock with Media Pool Clip” command to force a clip in the Timeline to conform to a clip in the Media Pool of your choosing.
This command automatically suspends the Conform Lock Enabled setting of a target clip and ignores file names and reel names in favor of conforming the target clip to another clip that you’ve manually selected, while timecode is still used to align the clip being conformed with the clip that was in the Timeline originally.
1 Select a clip in the Media Pool. The clip you select in the Media Pool must be equal in length or longer than the clip you select in the Timeline for Force Reconform to work.
2 Right-click an unconformed clip in the Timeline, and choose “Conform Lock with Media Pool Clip” from the contextual menu. The selected clip in the Timeline is conformed to the clip you selected in the Media Pool in one of two ways:
— If the selected Media Pool clip has timecode matching the selected Timeline clip: The new clip is perfectly conformed to match the original clip.
— If the selected Media Pool clip doesn’t have timecode matching the selected Timeline clip: The new clip is conformed such that the first frame of the Media Pool clip is aligned with the first frame of the reconformed clip in the Timeline, and occupies the same duration.
3 If you right-click that clip again, you’ll see that Conform Lock Enabled is enabled, showing you that the clip has been conform locked to media for which it wasn’t originally a match.
Relinking Clips to Media Files on Disk
The easiest and best known method of relinking clips in your project that have either gone offline or are not linked to the correct set of media files on disk is to use the appropriately named “Relink Media” or “Relink selected clips” command. Note, the Relink command will only work for clips that are unlinked, it will not work for clips that are missing and so have no corresponding clips in the Media Pool.
The Relink command is the most flexible method of relinking clips in the Media Pool of your project with clips in a file system directory of your choice, using file name and timecode as the primary criteria for re-creating the correspondence between each clip and its corresponding media file on disk. This is a good command to use to relink media that’s been moved to another location or reorganized using another file structure on disk.
1 Select the orange Relink icon in the page’s Media Pool.
2 Select the Locate button next to the specific volume(s) that are missing, and choose a directory where the missing files are now
3 If the quick search initiated by the Locate buttons doesn’t find media that you know is there, you can initialize an exhaustive deep disk search for the media by clicking on the Disk Search button.
4 If there are still other clips that couldn’t be found, you’re prompted to either choose another directory altogether to continue searching, or quit.