Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel - Manual (Page 128)

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2. If necessary, turn on the “Assist using reel numbers from the:” checkbox in the Project tab
of the Config page, and click to choose the appropriate option underneath. For example,
if you’re relinking to R3D media, the default setting of the “Source clip file pathname” will
base the reel names of each clip on the source media’s file name.
If you discover later that you’ve chosen the wrong option, you can change this
setting later.
3. Open the Browse page, use the Media Storage and Clip Details lists to navigate to the
flattened master media file that contains the entire program, and double-click the file to
add it to the Media Pool.
4. Open the Conform page, and click the Preconform button.
5. In the “Select an EDL file” dialog that appears, navigate to the EDL that matches the
flattened master media file, select it, and click Open.
6. In the “Parse preconform options” dialog that appears, give the new session a name,
and click OK.
A new session appears in the Timeline Management list, the Conform EDL list is populated
with the events of the imported EDL, and the Timeline shows the session’s edited clips,
ready for grading. Clips that could not be linked to a corresponding file in the Media Pool
appear with a red x to indicate that they’re unconformed.
The second method of conforming an EDL to a flattened file is to use the “Split and Add” command in
the Browse page to split one or more master media files into individual clips that match those of an EDL,
importing the EDL itself in the Conform page in a second step.
This method is useful if there are clips in different folders or volumes that you want to conform to a
single EDL. For example, the majority of the first reel of a program may have been exported as a single
flattened file, but the corresponding EDL may require an additional folder of effects clips be added to
the Media Pool in order to be fully conformed.
Splitting a flattened media file in the Browse page, and importing its EDL in the Conform page:
1. Before you import any media, make sure that the “Timecode calculated at:” pop-
up menu in the Project tab of the Config page is set to a frame rate that matches
your project.
2. Open the Browse page, use the Media Storage and Clip Details lists to navigate to the
flattened master media file that contains the entire program.
3. Select the flattened media file, right-click it, and choose “Split and Add into Media Pool.”
4. In the “Select EDL files for splitting clips” dialog that appears, navigate to the EDL that
matches the flattened master media file, select it, and click Open.