Davinci Resolve Project Setup - Creating Proxies

Open Davinci Resolve

Click through the prompts

Open the Untitled Project

Click on the Media Tab at the bottom

Choose your volume or hard drive from the left most column and put the interface in List View to see the media in a list

Locate the folder with the media in this example footage shot with the Sony FX9 or FX6 will have a folder called XDROOT.

Right click the folder and choose

>Add Folder and SubFolders into the Media Pool

Choose to Yes Change Project Frame Rate

>Click on Change

Media will load into the project as shown here.

Do this for all the folders of footage / card data for the shooting days

Once all the footage has been added into the project click on the Edit Tab

Click on List View shown here so all the clips are easily accessible

Next step is to make proxies

Set where the proxy media is to be stored

Click on DaVinci Resolve >Preferences

Go to Media Storage

>Proxy Generation Location

>Set to Use Project Settings

>Click Save

Then go to the lower right corner of the DaVinci Interface and choose Project Settings icon

Click on Master Settings then

Scroll down to

Choose

>Proxy media resolution Quarter

>Proxy media format ProRes 422 Proxy

Then go to the Working Folders section and set the Proxy generation location to your shared storage volume or your hard drive

Select all the clips in the project that were just added and

Once all the clips are selected right click the selections and choose

>Generate Proxy Media

The proxies will start to be created and saved in the exact same file structure as the original media but in a smaller easier to process lower quality file.

At the top of the windows for source and record choose Prefer Proxies to show the proxies you are working with to speed up processing and smoother playback for editing.

The pink PXY will show up on the clips when you are in Thumbnail view

To turn Proxies off choose

Disable All Proxies