From the course: Learning DaVinci Resolve 16

Importing a Resolve project - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

From the course: Learning DaVinci Resolve 16

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Importing a Resolve project

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- In the Exercise files I provided you, we also have DaVinci Resolve Projects, that you can import into DaVinci Resolve. Let's see how they are a little different and what we need to do in order to get all that footage inside the project to relink back to our source media in the Exercise Files folder. So once again, I am going to right-click here in the gray area. Again, I don't want to right-click on a project, it gives me a different set of contextual menus. I'm going to right-click and choose Import Project. We're not doing a restore, we're doing an import. I'm going to navigate to my Desktop and to the Exercise Files folder, click into that. Click into Projects Media and let's pull up End Resolve Projects. Now these may be different in the final Project files that I provide to you. But let's go ahead and pull up this 05-09 Hue versus Start, select any one that you want, it doesn't really matter. I'm going to go ahead and click Open. And now, Hue versus Start is loaded into my Project File. I'm going to double-click into that and we've opened up DaVinci Resolve and you see that all the media is offline, and so what do we do about this? How can we fix this? Well one of the easiest ways, and I usually like doing this from the Media page, is I am going to click down here on the bottom and click on Media. And then here in the Bin, I'm going to click on Master and Shift + click on the last folder listed and every single piece of media in this project is now listed here in the Media Pool. I click on any one of these items and do a Control + A, control all, right-click and choose Relink Selected Clips. Another way of doing this, without having to do this click and select all, is we can come back up into Master, Shift + click on the folders, right-click on a Bin and choose Relink Clips For Selected Bins. Now I'm going to navigate down to the hard drive that contains all of my footage. Exercise Files and now I could just choose Exercise Files because the media for this training is located down here in this dot D- R- A-, but I usually like getting a little bit closer to where my source footage is. Imagine that this Exercise Files was actually a hard drive that contained lots of folders to lots of different projects If I click at this top level there, it'll have to rummage through all of those folders and that can take a lot of time. So I like to get as close to my footage as I can before clicking the Relink button. So I'm going to come down here instead, to the dot D- R- A- folder, and now I click, well it's the OK button. So let's click that, a dialogue box tells me its looking for the matching media and everything gets relinked. Sometimes DaVinci Resolve will ask you if you want to do a deep search. It does that when it can't quite find everything, or if the folder structure isn't what it expects. When that happens, say Yeah go ahead, do a relink and then it will dig through ever single folder that you've selected, every single sub-folder you selected and see if it can't connect up some of those clips it's having trouble finding.

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