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Playing Media in the Media Storage Browser
You can select media in the Media Storage Browser to play directly in the Media page Viewer, without importing it, so long as it’s in a format that DaVinci Resolve supports. This is useful for previewing clips that you’re considering using in a project, but it’s also useful for quality control review sessions of media that you’ve exported from DaVinci Resolve. All clips that are played in the Media page Viewer are also output to video, if you have a supported Blackmagic output interface. You can also output the video to a second monitor by choosing Workspace > Video Clean Feed, and selecting your monitor.
Additionally, if you choose Workspace > Dual Screen > On, the second computer display is capable of displaying a set of video scopes on the Media page, which can help you QC a program you’re delivering.
Playing DCP and IMF Packages
It’s also possible to use the Media Storage Browser to select and play DCP and IMF packages that have been exported either using EasyDCP or using the native DCP/IMF export capabilities of
DaVinci Resolve. Simply locate the package, select it, and play it in the Viewer like any other clip. It will be output to video and analyzed by the video scopes.
DCP and IMF packages can also be imported from Media Storage to the Media Pool for various workflows. For more information, see Chapter 188, “Delivering DCP and IMF.”
The Media Storage Browser’s Volume List
At the left of the Media Storage browser is a list of all volumes that are currently available to your DaVinci Resolve workstation. It’s used to locate media that you want to import manually into your project.
— Scratch volumes: Indicated by a usage statistic to the right of the volume name that lists how full that volume is, these are disks that you’ve added to the Media Storage panel of the System Preferences window. The topmost of these scratch disks is used to store Gallery stills and cache files.
— Available volumes: Indicated by disk icons, this is a list of all fixed, removable, and network volumes that are currently available to your workstation. When the “Automatically display attached local and network storage locations” checkbox is turned on in the Media Storage panel of the DaVinci Resolve Preferences, new volumes that are attached to your workstation should automatically appear in this list.
This is a hierarchical list; clicking the disclosure triangle to the left of any volume opens up an additional list of that volume’s subdirectories, with additional disclosure triangles next to each subdirectory. Using the Media Storage browser, you can drill down into as many subdirectories as you need to.
Adding Volumes That Don’t Appear in This List
If you need to access a storage volume that doesn’t appear on this list, for example if you’re using the version of DaVinci Resolve that is available in the Apple App Store, then you can right-click anywhere in the background of the Volume list and choose “Add New Location” to open a dialog you can use to choose a volume you want to add.
If you’re using the Apple App Store version of DaVinci Resolve, auto-mounting of attached storage volumes is not enabled automatically. However, you can enable this in the Media Storage panel of the DaVinci Resolve Preferences. For more information, see the DaVinci Resolve Preferences section of Chapter 4, “System and User Preferences.”