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Understanding, Fixing, and Using Reel Conflicts
As long as the “Auto conform clips with media added into Media Pool” setting is enabled in the General Options panel of the Project Settings, the same dynamic relationship between clips in the Media Pool and those in a timeline are maintained whether clips are linked or unlinked, it makes no difference.
However, this does mean that if you have two different versions of the same clip in the Media Pool, or even two completely different clips that share the same file name (or reel name) and the same overlapping timecode, then DaVinci Resolve is capable of automatically conforming to either clip.
A good example of this is if you have both the camera raw version of a clip, and a ProRes or MXF transcoded version imported into the Media Pool at the same time. Both clips have the same content, the same file name, and the same range of frames. This poses the potential for what DaVinci Resolve refers to as a “clip conflict.”
You won’t necessarily notice this at first because, by default, all clips that are imported with a timeline, or that you’ve edited into a brand new timeline, have a Conform Lock Enabled setting enabled by default. All clips in a timeline with Conform Lock Enabled turned on only consider the current clip
in the Media Pool to which they’re conformed as the valid clip; all other clips with file names and overlapping timecode that would otherwise make them an otherwise valid match are ignored.
However, if you right-click such a clip in the Timeline and turn Conform Lock Enabled off, that clip will display a “clip conflict” error, with an “attention” badge to the left of its name in the Timeline.
Conflict icon indicating at least two clips have matching conform parameters
TIP: Overlapping timecode often occurs in the normal course of work, but should be managed by altering each clip’s embedded reel name, or by organizing media in different bins.
TIP: Overlapping timecode often occurs in the normal course of work, but should be managed by altering each clip’s embedded reel name, or by organizing media in different bins.
TIP: Overlapping timecode often occurs in the normal course of work, but should be managed by altering each clip’s embedded reel name, or by organizing media in different bins.
Clip conflicts are typically considered to be an error, but not always. They can be a problem if the media you’ve imported along with an imported project from another application has media that was added with timecode but no reel identifier (for example, when shots from multiple unidentified reels that all start at 0 hour). The thing is, you may not immediately notice such clip conflicts, until you turn Conform Lock Enabled off.