Start by opening “DaVinci Resolve” and opening up a new project. You can do so my opening the “Untitled Project” or clicking “New Project” down in the bottom right hand corner of the UI.

You’ll land on the “Media” tab which is where you’ll manage and review your media for your project. You can also use this page for data transfers with MD5 checksum validation (or greater) or to inspect metadata and asset information.

Navigate in the top left panel to your production media, you can also drag and drop from the finder to here.

Make a bin in the project to copy your media into and drag and drop the file(s) or folder(s) into that bin.

If asked, click “Change” to set the “Project Frame Rate” to match your shooting/edit timebase.

Now you have some media in the project!

Click File → Save Project if you have not already done so.

Name your project.

Great! Now let’s go to the “Edit” tab and navigate to the file(s) that you’d like to place into the timeline and highlight the clip(s).

Right click and select “Create New Timeline Using Selected Clips…”