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The appropriately named “Relink selected clips” command is the most flexible method of relinking clips in your project with clips in a directory of your choice, using file name and timecode as the primary criteria for reconnecting the relationship between each clip and its corresponding media file 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 drop-down menu that contains clips you want to relink, then right-click the selected bin and choose “Relink Clips for Selected Bin” from the contextual menu.
2 When the Relink File dialog opens, choose a volume and 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.