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I'm trying to work through the annoying non-AVI support for DV25 files to re-edit some DV footage. I used a python script and ffmpeg to just change to a mov wrapper with a copy.

So this works fine. A little annoying to run a script to process 967 GB of video files.... But anyway, just computer time, now that I have the script written.

The problem I'm running into is importing the timeline. I can specify to ignore extension and it jumps from .avi to .mov for almost all media. However, some it still stays at .avi. I can't figure out how to get it to cut over.

So I have a timeline with red clips with '?' for about 16 of my source files. I can't figure out why they are not matching. So I need to replace the clips.

I can't figure out how to tell Resolve to use a different clip with the same cut. Is there a way to do this? I've looked through the manual and clip menu. All things I can think of. I'm stuck.

Best I can do is double click the '?' clip to bring it into the viewer to see the in/out. Then load the same clip from media and set the in/out as close as I can and drop it in the layer on top. Do able for the 50 or so clips, but would like to know a better way if I plan on importing 85 scenes of a feature length into Resolve.

Edit: Using 15b6 Studio

As part of this, it would be REALLY great if there was an option to not specify files when importing a Timeline, but allow something like "Find Files from Imported Media".

This would allow me to import the media and know it is there, rather than having to do so at the xml import.

My issues with '?' media seem to be that it is trying to import video files as just audio only. Then video files past that are not found.

But you can do that! Just import the media prior to importing the XML and switch off the automatic for the XML.

I guess I would need to modify the XML to replace the .avi with .mov, but that might work. I was using the ignore extension and forgot about being able to turn off the files.

Dealing with the terrible support for AVI in Resolve sucks. I would have expected DV25 support as AVI. That was a really common format for a while. No problem at all once converted to a MOV wrapper. We are seeing the warts of a post tool, rather than NLE appear here, I think.

I'll try that when I get back to the editing rig this weekend.

I might have to play around with some Python scripts to see if I can make new tracks with edits if this doesn't work. I want to bring over 80 projects into timelines, but this is painful.

I still would love to learn how to take a '?' and replace it with something that has the same in and out points.