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DECK 344

EDL Ingest

WhenyouhaveanEDL,youcanusethe‘LoadEDL’buttonlocatedatthebottomoftheBatchList

display. Selecting this button will open a Browse window so you can select the EDL to load, and once

loaded, you will see the EDL ﬁle name listed at the top of the window and all the events in the Batch

List.TotherightoftheEDLnameisacheckbox,‘UseReelNumberforSorting’whichyoushouldcheck

if you would like the EDL to be sorted by reel number, otherwise it will be sorted by source timecode.

TheBatchListdisplayshows,byevent,theReelName,the‘MarkIn’and‘MarkOut’points,andtheClip

Name that will be ingested into DaVinci Resolve. The check box on the left of each item in the display

will indicate when each event has been successfully ingested by displaying a white check in the box. On

the right-hand side of the display, the user will see if the images are available within the Media Pool and

comments,ifany.AtthebottomoftheBatchListdisplayalongwiththe‘LoadEDL’buttontherearea

number of control buttons.

If you load an EDL and some images for that EDL are already in the Media Pool, there is no reason to

ingest them again so this offers a quick check to help reduce your ingest time. Using the active EDL,

DaVinci Resolve will show you the missing clips, making ingest of the remainder quite a lot faster than

the complete list.

Clickingonthe‘SelectAll’buttonwillhighlightalleditswithintheBatchListdisplay.Ifyouclickonthe

‘DeleteSelected’button,thiswilldeletethehighlightededitinformation.Thisgivesyoutheopportunity

to remove events from the batch and ingest only the selected sections from the EDL.

You can also ingest material using multiple EDLs. Particularly helpful for a TV commercial project. First

placealltheEDLswithinthesamedirectoryfolder.Whenyouinitiatethe‘LoadEDL’function,browseto

thedirectorythathastheEDLsandusethe‘Shift’or‘Ctrl/Command’buttonstoselecttheEDLs.

Scan list export

Lastly, at the bottom of the Batch List display is a ‘Scanner Export’ button. This button will export

the events within the Batch List in a format that can be utilized automatically by an Arri scanner. The

scanner can then scan the ﬁlm and place the frames you need into the Media Pool with the correct

naming convention.

DaVinci Resolve can also optionally populate the Media Pool with the clip entries so you can continue

working as the scan is in progress. The images will appear automatically as soon as the scan has ﬁnished.

Batch list for Ingest