Save Hard Drive Space! - DaVinci Resolve 17 Media Management Tutorial

so your masterpiece video is done sign seal delivered and it's time to delete all that footage to make room for the next video or maybe you hold on to all your footage you know just in case well what if i told you that you can still be a video footage minimalist without deleting all your footage so you can still recut it later down the road and that's exactly what media management and davinci resolve 17 is all about so let's jump in and learn this great technique to not waste hard drive space after a project wraps up all right we're over here in davinci resolve 17.2.2 today just for reference i've got about a five and a half minute long video of making chocolate chip cookies shot with the sony fx3 with the sony xavcs i codec just for reference and we want to medium manage of this so that we can archive it it's a lot smaller we do that by going up to file media management right there and under here we have three options there's entire project timelines and clips i'm going to show you timelines because that's how i like to use it and then under timelines we have the option for copy and transcode um transcode is going to let you make it a different sort of video essence a different flavor of video maybe you want it to play back better you could choose something like prores or you could choose a lower quality h264 if you needed smaller files to save out i want to retain the original footage quality which you probably do too so we're going to choose copy and under copy we have some really cool options here so the first thing you're going to do is choose your timeline we're going to choose grandma's cook chocolate chip cookies final side note if you put final in the title it's probably not going to be your final you're going to have a second vinyl so maybe don't do that anyways we have down under copy we have used media and we also have use midi and trim so this is kind of the crux to being able to have flexibility later on is this whole trim with the handles concept and what i want to explain real quick is what a handle is so we have our timeline it has like an in and out point right well a handle is anything that's before the beginning of that end point and after the end of that out point so what this does is if you turn this number up from zero you're going to be able to extend a shot later on but you're still going to be making the shot a lot shorter overall so you're saving on a lot of hard drive space so if i just say copy use media it's going to do every single full clip that's used on the timeline and right now that's showing it's going to be 28 gigs and our new size is 28 gigs it doesn't really save us a lot of space but if we say used media and trim choose that button with zero handles it goes from 28 gigs down to 10 gigs so about a third of the file size you're going to save a lot of hard drive space however because it's at zero handles you can't really adjust it later on you could rearrange the clips and you'd have all your edit points there but you don't have anything extra so i would say at a minimum it's probably a good idea to turn this up to like 12 frames which if you're shooting 24p that's half a second um that's going to increase your file size a little bit we're up to 12 gigs but it still gives you quite a bit to work with um if you need to like tweak something maybe you're changing music need to have something sync up to a new beat the other options you have down here are use project name subfolder keep things organized consolidate multiple edits segments into one file what this one does is if you are going to need to re-color grade it later on it's going to take if you have that same shot and multiple spots it's going to just make sure that it only makes one file of it so you can use remote grading later on there'll be another tutorial on this channel for sure about remote grading it's super powerful i don't do that because at this point i feel like well i've already graded the project so i don't need that flexibility it just makes bigger files but do make sure you check preserve hierarchy after zero folder levels this is really important on especially on consumer cameras because a lot of them will use the same file name so it's dependent on the folder structure to make sure that things re-link properly so keep that on there it'll make re-linking much much easier for you so all that's left to do now is choose a destination of where you want it to go click browse and like any good tutorial you put it right on your desktop right so we got a media managed folder on the desktop we click open and start and just like that it's going to go through all 70 clips here and make new clips that are the exact same video essence the xavcsi codec but only using what's on the timeline plus the trim of the 12 handles that we told us so it's 12 frames before the beginning of the cut and 12 frames after all right while the computer kicks out copies of the trimmed up media i just want to take a second real quick to welcome you if you're new here this is creative video tips i'm chadwick and i'm so glad that you found this channel it's all about helping you create videos that make a difference and stand out i've got lots of great tricks about using davinci resolve so if you're into that subscribe right down below right now that way you don't miss out on the next great tip it's totally free you can unsubscribe at any time and it's also going to let me know that i'm doing something helpful by creating these tutorials all right let's jump back into resolve so i can show you what we've created all right it looks like media management has finished i'm going to jump over here to the finder inside the meeting managed folder we are taking a look and we have 12.99 13 gigs of footage which is much smaller than the original 30 or so gigs and we still have that 12 frames of handles that we created inside of here you have a drt file which is davinci resolve timeline file this is actually all the information of that timeline i'm going to show you how to import that here in a second and inside of here is where all the footage is and because we had told it to maintain that folder structure that hierarchy it should all be nested in all the folders that are necessary so it even took our music it wasn't just the video footage so that's good to know right you're gonna have all the assets that you need and then within the clips folder you'll notice anytime you use multiple parts of the same clip it creates a unique file name for you so it's not overwriting them um unnecessarily so so these are different instances of that same 425 clip there are five or six of them here it just does that automatically and because of the time code and the relationship to the drt file it's going to link up perfectly when we try to import those into a new project as we can do with our drt file so let's do that next so to open this like we're starting a totally fresh project we're coming back at this years later let's go back to davinci resolve we'll hit our project manager with shift one and let's create a new project okay and we'll call this unarchive and then to import a timeline in here it's command shift i or you could go to file import uh timeline right there and then we just point it to our desktop folder where we had that drt file made which is this grandma's chocolate chip cookies we click open and yes we do want it to change for us and set that all up for us and just like that it has linked and found all of those new clips that are the xavcs i codec that it had made to match what the original source files were so just like that we go back over here to the media page you can see these are indeed the media managed versions but they're still this h.264 high 422 codec this is still really great looking footage we haven't lost any quality the only thing we have lost and i will point this out because it is important we have lost any information if you wanted to know about the gamma or the color space that you can normally find using sony catalyst browse if it's s-log 3 for example we have lost that information so if you want to retain that later on you maybe put a text note on what type of footage you have in there but other than that that's as easy as that's all there really is to it so if we go back to the timeline here we can see that we have indeed do have handles on the footage because we can take this and we can roll it out you know 12 frames either direction hey if you learned something new make sure to give this video a like so that other people can find it and learn too and if you want to learn more about video editing in davinci resolve maybe using the speed editor click the playlist i have on screen right now and since there's so much more to learn i'll see in that next video

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Length: 8min 3sec (483 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 27 2021