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The Clone tool with a job set up
Adding Media to the Media Pool
At minimum, you’ll be using the Media page to add clips to a project to begin editing, in preparation to create dailies, or as a prelude to conforming a project using an EDL. All clips you want to work with must first be added to the Media Pool to be available for grading and processing in DaVinci Resolve, regardless of whether or not there’s edited project data to go along with it.
If you import XML or AAF projects, you can choose to automatically import all accompanying media as part of the import process you initiate in the Edit page. However, if you find yourself needing to
replace updated effects or stock footage in the Timeline, or you’re called upon to add additional media such as animated titles or superimposed clips for compositing, then you’ll still need to use the Media page to do so.
Whatever kind of project you’re working on, you can add clips to the Media Pool from as many different volumes as you need. All imported clips are linked to the original media on whichever disks you found them; files are not moved, copied, or otherwise transcoded when you add them to the Media Pool. Consequently, it’s a good idea to make sure that all media you want to import into your project has already been copied to a suitably fast volume before importing it.