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# Relinking Media to Clips

After you recapture media for an unlinked clip, you must link it to that clip to associate it with the clip metadata. You can relink recaptured image file imports, audio file imports and VTR-captured clips. Module-processed clips are tagged as un-reloadable, and cannot be recaptured or relinked.

You can link the captured media directly from the Recapture menu after recapturing it, or from the clip library using the Relink tool. In most instances, it is more convenient to relink directly after recapture from the Recapture menu. When you relink the media to the clip from the Recapture menu, an assembled clip is placed in the specified reel. This clip is given the same name as the original unlinked clip. The original unlinked media clip is kept in its original location. This clip can be used again for recapturing.

Use the Relink tool in the clip library to relink media to an unlinked clip when it is not convenient to do so from the Recapture menu. When relinking from the clip library, the media and metadata you are relinking can be located in the same reel, the same library or in a Gateway library.

To relink in the clip library:

1. Select the unlinked clip.
2. Click Tools to display the Tools menu, then click Unlink/Relink.

   The Relink options opens.

3. Select where to search for the media.

   Select: | To:
   --- | ---
   From Reel | Relink to media contained within the reel that contains the clip to relink.
   From Library | Relink to media contained within the library that contains the clip to relink.
   Form Gateway | Relink to media located in a Gateway library. See To relink a clip to files located in a Gateway library:.

4. Optional: Enable or disable the Relink options, as required.

   Enable: | To:
   --- | ---
   Use Clip Name | Use the file name specified as a match criteria.
   Use Timecode | Use the timecode as a match criteria.
   Use Source Tape | Use the tape/source name as a match criteria.
   Use Resolution | Use the resolution specified as a match criteria. If this option is disabled, Smoke soft-resizes the media to the resolution specified in the imported sequence, if required.
   Use UMID | Use the starting SMPTE UMID as a match criteria. This is only used with MXF files and is ignored in any other case.
   Use Framerate | Use the frame rate as a match criteria. Disable to disregard the frame rate. If the clip is relinked, you can then try slipping the clip and using a timewarp in the timeline to correct the frame rate discrepancy.

5. Optional: Enable or disable Store Local Copy. See Setting Global Import Preferences.
6. Optional: Enable Save Sources when relinking From Gateway to copy the relinked source next to the relinked clip.
7. Click Relink.

   All the clips that are associated with the original clip are relinked to it.

To relink a clip to files located in a Gateway library:

1. Open the Clip Library menu.

   In the EditDesk menu, click the Clip Library box.

2. Set the Library Mode box to Dual View.

   The Library View Mode button is located in the top-left of the Clip Library menu.

3. Using the Network menu, connect to a Gateway library.

   Open the Network menu, and use the Gateway to select the directories which contain the sequence to import. See Accessing Gateway Libraries.

4. In one view, open the Gateway library which contains the sources to relink. Use the Clip Library box.
5. In the other view, open the local clip library which contains the clip to relink. Use the Clip Library box.
6. Open the Unlink/Relink menu from the Tools menu.
7. Select From Gateway from the Relink Options Source box.
8. Optional: Enable the Relink options as required.

   Enable: | To:
   --- | ---
   Use Clip Name | Use the file name specified as a match criteria.
   Use Timecode | Use the timecode as a match criteria.
   Use Source Tape | Use the tape/source name as a match criteria.
   Use Resolution | Use the resolution specified as a match criteria. If this option is disabled, Smoke soft-resizes the media to the resolution specified in the imported sequence, if required.
   Use UMID | Use the starting SMPTE UMID as a match criteria. This is only used with MXF files and is ignored in any other case.

9. Optional: Enable or disable Store Local Copy. See Setting Global Import Preferences.
10. In the Gateway library view, navigate to the directory which contains the sources you want to relink. Make sure sources to relink are visible in the Gateway library. The Relink tool tries to relink only to displayed media files.
11. Optional: If the sources are located in sub-directories, click Scan Sub-Directories. This flattens the directory structure and makes all the sources visible to the relink tool.
12. From the clip library, select the clip to relink.
13. Click Relink.

    The application scans all the visible media and asks you to confirm the relink operation.