From the course: Learning DaVinci Resolve 16

Restoring the Resolve archive - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

From the course: Learning DaVinci Resolve 16

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Restoring the Resolve archive

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- As part of this training, I've provided you with exercise files. You have footage, you have script, and you have project and archive files. In this movie, you're learning how to restore a DaVinci Resolve archive or .DRA. It's a great feature that allows you to take a project and archive it. And Resolve not only exports the project file, it gathers all your media in that project and saves it with the project file. You can then move that .DRA to another computer, restore it, the project loads up and automatically re-links to the media inside the project, saving you a ton of time. So let's restore the .DRA from our exercise file. When you first launch DaVinci Resolve, you land on the project manager. Now right click in the gray space, not on another project, but in the gray space and choose restore. You could try import, but that only works with .DRPs. We're not importing a project file, we are restoring an archive. So click on restore. Now navigate into exercise files on your desktop and into the projects media folder, and here it is. It's a folder with the .DRA extension. Now I can double click and open into this because it's a regular folder. So as I double click, you'll see there are media files in here and I can double click into those. And I've already prearranged all this media in here, but this is not what we want to open up right now. We need to come up to the level where we choose the .DRA folder. So I'm going to click back up on projects media, I'm going to click to choose this folder, and I'm going to stop there. I'm about to select open. The .DRA folder extension tells DaVinci Resolve this is an archive. When I click open, the project is now fully restored. You can see it's automatically relinked to the media itself and that is the big benefit of a .DRA. It reduces the work load you have to do when you're restoring a project from the archives.

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