effect on projects of moving clips to different folders

I am referring to file manage in Explorer folder.
I store my videos in folders and subfolders according to relationship. So I may have a lot in a general folder, Birds. where all the unprocessed clips of that subject are. But so that I don't lose track of what I have already worked on, once videos are completed from the clips I move to more specific folders, such as Owls or maybe more specific.

So in Premiere Pro if I reopen a project for some reason when the clips have been so moved, it asks where is the file eg-abd, and I redirect to the current folder and all the subsequent ones also load, and then resaved, that is remembered. Does a similar situation exist in Resolve?

Does a similar situation exist in Resolve?

Press the red icon on the media pool

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does that come up when they aren't found? I haven't moved any yet and don't see.

It’s not red until there’s media that’s not found - ie offline


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once videos are completed from the clips I move to more specific folders

Do that before editing.

Move the files you wish to include in a project to a new folder, and then import them into Resolve.

Organize first, edit second.

The reason I don't do it that way is because there are many other shots of the same species in the folder already, that have been used in videos. This is the final resting place. The chances of mixing up processed and unprocessed one, including some unwantedly or skipping others accidentally may be likely.

Also, I am wondering, both sources are on an external hard drive. I have wondered if processing is better on an internal hard drive. If so, I would be moving them there temporarily where there isn't much storage room.

The advice is meant more for future work. Won't really help with this project.

I advise always working from internal drives to avoid potential issues.

While I'm with Jim regarding "organise first, then edit" I don't subscribe to his notion to have everything on internal drives. Yes, the database should be internal.

Media, cache or proxies only need to be internal if you have no fast external drives. But then, Jim is on Windows with its old drive lettering approach, which might be causing problems where I never had one under MacOS.

Anyway, you can still reorganise your media to your hearts delight. Resolve is pretty good at relinking media if:
- you never renamed them on OS level
- they all have proper TC

Made a big move and Resolve easily re-linked to all. All 4 timelines in just ones step.

something else though is that in the power bin all the clips are red with a line through. They didn't reconnect. The same bin selection that is not a power bin but has the same clips shows them as before.

But now I found a reconnect menu there too and that solved it.

New, but related problem. I found a mis-spelling of the subject name in all of my clips used in a video and corrected, and now none are recognized. In Premiere Pro, it didn't just go to the folder but asked to compare a file and once this was done, all the rest were similarly recognized. But in Resolve it just looked in the folder and said nothing matches and no opportunity to match.

Did you correct the original clip names or the secondary ones you can give them in DR?
Changing clip names at OS level is a no-go.

In Premiere Pro, it didn't just go to the folder but asked to compare a file and once this was done, all the rest were similarly recognized.

You might be misremembering this Rob, or maybe I am... but last time I checked in Premiere, relinking by filename only allowed multiple renamed files to relink 'simultaneously' when its a file extension change (eg mov to mxf), but not if 'actual' filename changes... those name changed files would need to be relinked item by item. In such cases one would choose to relinked en masse using an alternative criteria if available eg by using unique timecode, duration etc

Regardless, in Resolve, a manual single item source replacement/relink can be handled using the "Replace Selected Clip..." command. For multiple files, you'll need to look at using an alternative criteria (as above) via the 'Reconform from Media Storage' or 'Reconform from Bins' functions.