There’s a small feature represented as a piece of metadata called Usage<\/strong> that can help with this detective work. Let’s look at how to use it.<\/p>\n For the sake of this demonstration,\u00a0load the entire contents of a\u00a0project drive into the DaVinci Resolve<\/strong> project, and then import any timeline that references the footage via XML, EDL <\/strong>or AAF<\/strong>. The majority of edited timelines will use significantly less footage than was shot.<\/p>\n Head to the Media page<\/strong>, the best place for managing footage and analyzing the wide variety of metadata information such as frame rate, resolution, and file path. The Media\u00a0<\/em>page<\/strong> organizes every clip in sortable spreadsheet-style tabs familiar to any NLE user. Right-clicking on the column heading brings up a host of other metadata options that can be hidden or revealed. The one we’re looking for is Usage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n At first, Usage<\/strong>\u00a0displays a column in which every row shows a default letter X<\/strong>. We’ll need to refresh the column to reflect what’s being used in the cuts.<\/p>\n Right-click anywhere in the media footage pool and select Update Usage Data<\/strong> near the bottom.<\/p>\n Clicking this will either maintain the X<\/strong>s or transform them into numbers<\/strong>. The numbers correspond to how many times the footage is referenced in the project’s timeline. Anything denoted with an X<\/b>\u00a0is not being used\u00a0and can be safely removed from the project without producing the dreaded offline graphic.<\/p>\n Since we’ll be removing media from our project, you may want to save a version of your project before the next step so you can always revert back to a more complete project. From here, click the Usage<\/strong> column to sort it. This will separate the used shots away from the unused shots. Then it’s just a matter of shift-selecting all the unused clips, right-clicking within them, and choosing Removed Selected Clips<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Got any additional\u00a0tips for consolidating projects?<\/strong> Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Removing unused clips from a large media pool makes any DaVinci Resolve project easier to manage, but how do you know what’s being used and what isn’t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":75415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5339,1085,39],"tags":[5385,4369,425,48],"class_list":["post-class-post-73573","post-class-post","post-class-type-post","post-class-status-publish","post-class-format-standard","post-class-has-post-thumbnail","post-class-hentry","post-class-category-color-grading","post-class-category-davinci-resolve","post-class-category-video-editing","post-class-tag-davinci-resolve","post-class-tag-davinci-resolve-12","post-class-tag-media-management","post-class-tag-workflow"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Employ](\"https:\/\/pbblogassets.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1-imported-timeline.png\" "\\"imported-timelineEmploy")
Above: import your XML first. Here’s a complicated project with multiple camera formats and resolutions.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Employ](\"https:\/\/pbblogassets.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SLIDE-ONE.jpg\" "\\"Employ")
Above: right-click the main column heading and select Usage from the myriad options.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Employ](\"https:\/\/pbblogassets.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SLIDE-2.jpg\" "\\"Employ")
Above: selecting usage reveals a column with default Xs.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Employ](\"https:\/\/pbblogassets.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SLIDE-3.jpg\" "\\"Employ")
Above: right-click anywhere in the media pool and select Update Usage Data near the bottom.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Employ](\"https:\/\/pbblogassets.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Untitled-2.jpg\" "\\"Employ")
Above: some of the clips now display numbers, indicating their use in the cut.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Employ](\"https:\/\/pbblogassets.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/04\/6-usage-sort.png\" "\\"Employ")
Sorting the Usage column separates the used clips from the unused. It’s easy now to remove the unreferenced clips to simplify your project.<\/em><\/p>\n