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The easiest method of relinking clips in your project that have gone offline is to use the appropriately named “Relink selected clips” command. This is the most flexible method of relinking clips in your project with clips in a file system directory of your choice, using file name and timecode as the primary criteria for drawing a correspondence between each clip and the corresponding media file on disk.
When you relink clips this way, the original file path in DaVinci Resolve is ignored, so this is a good command to use to relink to media that’s been reorganized on disk.
1 Do one of the following:
— Select one or more clips in the Media Pool browser that you want to relink, then right- click one of the selected clips or the selected bin, and choose “Relink Selected Clips” from the contextual menu.
— Select a bin in the Media Pool Bin list that contains clips you want to relink, then right-click one of the selected clips or the selected bin, and choose “Relink Clips for Selected Bin” from the contextual menu.
2 When the Relink File dialog opens, choose a directory in which to look for the files you want to relink to, and click OK. DaVinci Resolve attempts to find every clip with a matching file name in the subdirectories of the directory you chose, using the original file paths of the clips being relinked to do this as quickly as possible. By first looking for the clips in the directories they were originally in, relinking can be quite fast.
3 If there are any clips that couldn’t be found using the method in step 2, you’re prompted with the option to do a “deep search” by a second dialog. If you click Yes, then DaVinci Resolve will look for each clip inside every subdirectory of the directory you selected in step 2. This may take significantly longer, but it should be completely successful so long as the media that’s required is within the selected directory structure.
4 If there are still other clips that couldn’t be found, you’re prompted to either choose another directory altogether to continue searching, or quit.
Change Source Folder
If you’ve used your file system to move media that’s associated with a DaVinci Resolve project, but you haven’t changed the directory structure with which it’s organized, you can use the Change Source Folder command to quickly relink selected clips in the Media Pool to the new file path of the media
on disk, using the original file paths as a guide. This is a good relinking method to use, if possible, for projects on a SAN where you don’t want to risk the excessively long search times that could result from using the Relink command to examine a nested hierarchy of folders in a more flexible way.
1 Select one or more clips in the Media Pool, then right-click one of the selected clips, and choose Change Source Folder from the contextual menu. The Relink Media window appears displaying the original path for the material, with controls for choosing a new directory.
2 Click the “Browse” button to the right of the Change To field, and then use the file navigation dialog to find the new location of the media file, select it, and click Open.
3 If you succeeded in finding the appropriate media file, click Change. Otherwise, click Cancel.