I'm Alexis Van Hurkman,
and welcome to Resolve in a rush,
where you'll learn
DaVinci Resolve Grading and Finishing techniques
in under 5 minutes.
In this episode, were going to see
how you can move a DaVinci Resolve project
from one work station to another.
And in the process were gonna answer a question I get asked all the time,
which is how you can re-link media to a project in DaVinci Resolve.
To start out with, I've got this project here
and to export this project
and move it to another work station all I have to do is
go to the File menu and choose Export Project.
Simple enough.
Go ahead and save it.
I get my export dialogue,
and I'm going to name this Alexis Export.
I'm gonna stash that
on my Desktop.
Now, you have the option of saving any Stills, EDL's, LUT's, or Audio used
within that project.
I'm gonna save my stills,
and click ok.
At this point,
it's time to copy this exported project
and all of the media that I know it links to,
to another work station.
After copying the project file and all of the media separately
to the new work station,
I simply Login
and to import the project
I simply right-click
anywhere within the Project Manager
and I choose Import.
I get my dialogue,
and I'm gonna go back to
the Desktop,
there's Alexis Export.
There it is.
And of course when I open this project up,
I can see when I go to the Edit Page
that all of my clips
have gone offline.
There's actually a really easy way
to relink all of these clips.
In fact, there are two different ways,
and I'm gonna show you each one.
So, to relink all of those clips
is most easily shown
in the Media Page.
One thing I could do
if I don't care about the previous structure
of anything that I had in the media pool,
is I can go ahead and just delete all those bins.
And the simplest way of relinking,
is for me to simply identify
where those clips happen to be.
In this case they're in a directory called New Drive,
and
drilling down to find
the proxy media I that had created before,
I can simply right-click on that proxy folder
and add everything inside of it
to the Media Pool.
Once I do this, and go back to the edit page
you'll see that immediately Resolve is smart enough
to relink everything I put into the Media Pool
with the corresponding clips in the Timeline.
So, thats cool,
and its super simple if you're doing finishing
and you're a colorist,
and you don't really care about the
editorial structure of the Media Pool.
But, this is not cool if you're an editor
and you actually wanted all of that organization.
So, starting all over again,
were going to do this a second time.
I'm gonna open up my project.
I already have that file that I imported
and it's still unlinked because I didn't save it.
So, I'm just going in here to the Edit page,
everything's offline,
so, to preserve this organization in the Media Pool,
what I can do is I can simply select
the whole group of Bins.
This is important
because I now have to select one of those clips and
press Command-A to select all of the clips.
Because the command I want
is associated with these clips, not the Bins.
If I right-click any clip
I can choose
Change Source Folder.
I can see the previously saved path
for all of those files
and clicking the bottom To: field's 3 dot button
I can choose a new path.
And I'm going to choose
the top enclosing folder
of everything in this project.
Resolve is smart enough to drill down into subfolders
and when I click Open,
and then click Change,
all of a sudden
everything gets relinked.
But, if I just jump over to the Edit page
you can see that in one fell swoop
I've re-linked the entire project,
all of the media,
and I've preserved the hierarchy of all of these bins.
So, I hope you found that useful.
For more information on how to use DaVinci Resolve,
check out the Editing in DaVinci Resolve
and Grading in DaVinci Resolve titles
available from Ripple Training.
This is Alexis Hurkman
Thanks a lot for watching.