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Finding and importing clips

Finding and importing clips

- When we start up DaVinci Resolve, and we start a project, we want to populate our project with the footage that we shot. That means we need to populate the Media Pool, because once a clip makes it to the Media Pool, it's available in the rest of the software. So, let's take a look at a couple of different ways we can do that. And one of the ways to do that is from the Finder, or Explorer. And, I'll come down to my Desktop again. And Exercise Files, Project Media, .dra, Media Files, and I'm going to come into the Video Transcoded. And of course, I can take a single clip, and drag it from the Explorer, or the Finder, directly into the Media Pool, and it exists. Or, if I undo that. Let's switch back. Or, I could step up one level. I could drag an entire folder in here. So, this entire folder is dragged in. Undo that. Switch back. Or, if I want to maintain the name of this folder, like I've got all of these…

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