Auto Update Bin Contents

Hi,

Is there a way to tie a projects bins to specific directories on your computer so that if files are added or removed, the bin contents will automatically be updated?

We use Davinci with an extensive and dynamic folder tree that mimics the bin trees of our projects and having to manually add/remove bin contents when files are added/removed from the folder tree is redundant and time-consuming.

Thanks,
Tom

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Hi,

Is there a way to tie a projects bins to specific directories on your computer so that if files are added or removed, the bin contents will automatically be updated?

We use Davinci with an extensive and dynamic folder tree that mimics the bin trees of our projects and having to manually add/remove bin contents when files are added/removed from the folder tree is redundant and time-consuming.

Thanks,
Tom

That's a great idea I would use this option.

This is a good idea. We work on lan with others editors and everytime the motion design updates the files on the server directory we need to import again. BlackMagic its, simples. Just add a "Auto Import Bin" option for each bin folder. Its updates the folder under the bin. Easy.

Power Bins maybe?

Yes, please!
Is this possible yet?

I believe this is the feature I've been googling for (as an ex Premiere User)..

1. Updating of an updated asset linked from folder.
e.g. I amend an overlay external graphic file (TIFF), File is replaced/modified on disk (linked folder)
Looking for a way in which the linked disk file is THEN *automatically updated in my timeline* to reflect the changes within the modified file..

Media is read off the disk as it is, so...if the media changes, it shows that.

Cached clips and Optimized Media would make that invisible, though, as you're not reading the original media in those cases.

Media is read off the disk as it is, so...if the media changes, it shows that.

Cached clips and Optimized Media would make that invisible, though, as you're not reading the original media in those cases.

This is true for already imported files (although you would have to manually click "refresh bin").

The feature that is requested by Tom and others is that you don't have to import any files.
You just select the path of the project folder (or maybe just one folder at a time) on your computer/NAS and the folder structure and all files are imported automatically.

What this means is that whenever a file get's added into a folder within the project folder on your computer/NAS, this file automatically get's imported into the same folder in DaVinci, too.

Maybe for technical reasons it would be required to hit "refresh bin" manually, but it still would be very, very helpful.

Hi,

Is there a way to tie a projects bins to specific directories on your computer so that if files are added or removed, the bin contents will automatically be updated?

We use Davinci with an extensive and dynamic folder tree that mimics the bin trees of our projects and having to manually add/remove bin contents when files are added/removed from the folder tree is redundant and time-consuming.

Thanks,
Tom

It's possible to script this. You'd have a script running in the background adding and removing bins and files based on watched OS directories.

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I was just starting work in Resolve 17 beta and this idea was the first thing I was hoping to find after hearing in the 'promo' video about Resolve handling ever growing files. Unfortunately that feature is for a file that is being 'recorded' in real time in seems.

A script would work I think but I don't know where to start scripting it.

Some sort of bin that has the feature to automatically import any new file(s) added to the disk directory would be a big plus in my world (I am constantly trying to sort out if my bins have all the newly supplied footage included - i.e. version 15 and 21 of that particular pesky VFX)

I thought it would be in there somewhere...

but I guess not.

Oh hell yes!!

+100! That would make things so much better.

Let's make this happen, BMD!

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Any way to do this?

I feel like this would be a mandatory basic feature for many different workflows. I'm surprised there hasn't been a push for this.

For those who find this thread in the future: in another thread on this topic, someone mentioned a third-party app that does this, plus a ton of other useful features, called SuperBins.