From the course: DaVinci Resolve Fundamentals

Understanding the exercise files - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

From the course: DaVinci Resolve Fundamentals

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Understanding the exercise files

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- If you have access to the exercise files, then this movie will help you understand what I've provided to you. After you download the file, you're going to unzip it. It opens into this exercise files folder. I've placed it here on my desktop. You can just put it wherever you want. Just remember throughout this training, whenever I come back and reference these exercise files, you're going to dig for them wherever you place them. Inside this folder are three more folders. We've got projects media, script, and XML. Let's start at the top. In projects media, I've got two folders and one DRP or DaVinci Resolve project file. Starting with the folders, the first one is end resolve projects. What I've done is from time to time saved off the end state of one of my movies and provided it to you for import. So you can examine it or continue from my precise settings. These are exported out as DaVinci Resolve projects. They do not include media and because the file paths to my media on my computer is different than yours, when you import these dot DRPs into DaVinci resolve, you're going to need to relink the footage. We will look at re linking in a later movie. This OAC spot, conform .DRA, this is a particular kind of DaVinci Resolve Export. It's a DaVinci Resolve archive or .DRA. A DaVinci Resolve archive export's not just the DaVinci Resolve project file, but Resolve has also collected and gathered all the media used in that project. The DRP and the media are gathered together and placed in a common folder that ends in the extension .DRA. So if I step into the DRA, we see the DRP and a media files folder. If I step into that folder, here's all of our media assets we use in this training: audio consolidate, graphics, music, screenshots, video transcoded, and VO. This is about 1.9 gigs in total file size. The important thing to realize is that a DRA is nothing but a folder. And what happens is when you restore this DRA, not only does the project get restored, the media files are also relinked. It's a nifty trick. Basically, I'm delivering this media to you inside this DRA. When you restore any other resolved project file I provided, the media you need to relink to is also inside this DRA. In the project media folder, you've got one more DRP, and this will start one of our chapters that I'm going to ask you to import. Inside the script folder, I've provided you two scripts. These are shooting scripts, and we're only going to use one in this movie, but they will be instrumental. Finally, I've given you an XMLs folder. Now there's a read me in here and that read me, basically says this folder is empty and yes, that's on purpose. Open it up, read it. It's relatively self-explanatory.

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