From the course: DaVinci Resolve Fundamentals

Restoring the DaVinci Resolve archive - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

From the course: DaVinci Resolve Fundamentals

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Restoring the DaVinci Resolve archive

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- As part of this training, I've provided you with exercise files. You have footage, and you have scripts, and you have projects and archive files. In this movie, you're learning how to restore the DaVinci Resolve Archive, or DRA, that I've provided to you. It's a great feature. It allows you to take a project and archive it. And DaVinci Resolve will not only export the project file, it will gather up your media in that project and save it. You can then move that DRA to another computer, do a restore, and it automatically re-links the media inside the project, saving you a ton of time. For an example, let's restore the .DRA from our exercise file. When you first launch DaVinci Resolve, you open up on the project manager, this floating window here. Now right-click in the gray space, not on another project, but in the gray space and choose Restore. Now, you could try Import, but that only works with a .DRP. But we're not importing a project, we're restoring an archive. Click on Restore. Now navigate into exercise files, and into the projects and media folder, and here it is: OAC-Spot-Conformed.dra. It's actually just a folder name that has a .DRA extension. The DRA three-letter extension tells DaVinci Resolve that this is an archive. When I double-click, the project is fully restored. I'll now double-click on the project in the project manager to open it up. You can see that it's automatically re-linked to the media on your hard drive, even though this project was created on my hard drives. In the next chapter, we're going to use this project for our tour through DaVinci Resolve because it's fully populated, and will get you quickly oriented.

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