You always want to make sure that you have relinked the correct clips. This isn’t all completely hopeless because I also spoke to a Sony rep at Cinegear this year, and they have said that is something they plan to address to make sorting their footage a little bit easier. Think of my unfortunate experience as a cautionary tale.Īfter almost a year of not finding anything online about this issue, I was able to attend NAB, where I spoke to a Black Magic rep, bless this human, and they said this was something specific to that codec and Sony cameras. The best way to attack this issue is to be ahead of it in the first place. Right now, your only step is to offload all of your footage again, reimport it into DaVinci, and then do all your renaming and sorting. All while praying to the film gods that you haven’t reformatted the card with your files on it. Your media will forever be offline, and you will have to do another media dump of all of your cards.

The minute one of those folders is renamed, or you have renamed a clip, there is no going back because that codec is labeled and placed in those folders the way it is for a reason. Don’t touch, rename, move, or even look at those source folders.

I say this with all of the enthusiasm in the world.

Navigate to the folder that has your footage in it.

Right-click on one of the missing clips and click “relink selected clips.”.

Go into your media pool and select your missing clips.

If you have moved your files to a new drive, new computer, or a new folder, then you will automatically need to relink it. How to Fix the DaVinci Resolve Media Offline Issue Unlinked Clips

A very rare instance with using Sony cameras and XAVC camera codecs and renaming files on your drive as opposed to within DaVinci.

This happens when you delete a file from your media pool, but the clip still exists in your timeline. I had also had this happen when I simply renamed files.

i.e.: you moved your files to a different drive or folder. The most common is that a file you imported into your media pool is no longer linked to its source file outside. There are multiple reasons why this is happening.

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