This trim down would be bit-for-bit identical to the camera originals-just shorter. And you do it without recompressing your footage (and taking a hit in image quality). How about this alternative: You copy to your drives only the precise media you need?īy precise I mean: You trim down those hours and hours of unused footage to only those moments that appear in the finished timeline. And a waste of hard drive space storing all that excessive media. Talk about a waste of time spent copying excessive media. In some circles, they hand that RAID over to an assistant who painstakingly goes shot by shot through the film, copying each camera original file that’s used in the final timeline.įor a 60 minute timeline we could end up with a few dozen hours of camera original footage.

Question: How the heck are you supposed to copy 6 terabytes to your local, high-performance hard drives at the drop of a hat? Imagine: A client walks in your grading suite with 6 terabytes of footage on a Raid, drops it on your desk and says, “Please color grade this film and I have no idea which of these 6 terabytes are in my locked picture.” Tutorials / DaVinci Resolve: Consolidate Clips Function How do you use DaVinci Resolve Trim Clips Consolidate Clips Function?

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