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1 Click the Media Storage panel option menu, and choose Frame Display Mode.
2 Close one of the drop-down options:
— Auto: DaVinci Resolve will automatically select Individual Frames or Image Sequence based on file type. For example, DPX and EXR files will be imported as image sequence clips, while JPG files will be imported as individual frames.
— Individual: Each image sequence is now separated into its individual frames, allowing you to select only the frames you need.
— Sequence: Will group sequentially numbered files together as an image sequence clip, regardless of file type.
3 Use any of the previous described methods to add the frames you want to the Media Pool as individual clips or image sequences.
Adding Media Based on EDLs
Another strategy for adding media to the Media Pool is to use an EDL to add only the clips it refers to from a directory. This lets you add only the clips that are necessary for conforming a particular imported project before conforming an EDL, and eliminates the need to add too much media to the Media Pool, which might slow you down in the case of projects referencing terabytes of media.
Furthermore, you can choose multiple EDLs to base the import on, and many directories to examine.
The EDLs will reference clips via their timecode and sometimes reel name and path. It is these settings and the conform frame rate that you made previously in the Configuration screen that are now used to place images correctly into the Media Pool.
1 If necessary, open the General Options panel of the Project Settings, turn on the “Assist using reel names from the” checkbox, and choose a method with which to extract reel name information from the media files you’re about to import. For more information, see Chapter 19, “Using Clip Metadata.”
2 Right-click a directory in the Media Storage panel, and choose one of the following commands:
— Add Folder Based on EDLs into Media Pool
— Add Folder and SubFolders Based on EDLs into Media Pool
3 Using the file dialog that appears, select one or more EDLs to use.
DaVinci Resolve searches the directory hierarchy, either one level deep or all levels deep, for every media file matching the source timecode and the reel ID of an event in one of the selected EDLs.
Splitting Clips Based on EDLs
You can also use EDLs to split a media file into multiple clips in the Media Pool, either as an alternate means of “preconforming” a flattened master media file, or to import multiple sections of a longer media file that happen to be referenced by an EDL.