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Importing an EDL to a New Track
This last procedure describes how to add an EDL, not as an individual new Timeline, but as an additional video track to an existing Timeline. There are many reasons you might want to do this.
For example, if you need to move a multi-track project to DaVinci Resolve from an application that can’t export either AAF or XML project exchange files that DaVinci Resolve understands, you can use multiple EDLs. Simply export each track of the source project as an individual EDL, and then import each EDL into DaVinci Resolve as additional tracks of the same Timeline.
This is also useful for workflows where effects clips are being managed on a separate track assembled elsewhere, that you can then import directly into a graded Timeline to place many new effects clips
all at once.
1 In this procedure, you have the option of adding whatever media is required by the EDL you’re about to import to the Media Pool first, or you can add the media after the EDL has been imported. It’s your choice.
2 Open the Edit page, select a timeline in the Media Pool, then right-click it and choose Timelines > Import > EDL to New Track. A window appears prompting you to “Choose a file to import.”
3 Navigate to the EDL file you want to use, select it, and click Open.
4 A new video track is created above any previously existing tracks, and events from the selected EDL are immediately loaded into it according to their record timecode positions. If you loaded the media needed by the new clips at the beginning of this procedure, that media should be
conformed. Otherwise, you’ll need to track down the media files needed by the new unconformed clips and add it to the Media Pool now.