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5 Upload the resulting .zip to the online file sharing service you prefer, and send the download link to the remote editor.
6 Once the other editor unzips and imports the archive, you and they can then simply send timelines, bins, and/or project files back and forth to collaborate. These files are small enough to transfer over email or an instant messaging service.
Additionally, you may have your editing computer connected via ethernet to a Media Asset Management system that can create its own proxies. In order to edit smoothly via the network, you need to use low bandwidth proxies instead of the source media.
1 Import the original source media files to your Media Pool from the network storage system you’re using.
2 Set up the proxy generation settings in your Media Asset Management software to accommodate the amount of network bandwidth you expect to have access to.
3 Make sure the timecode and frame rate of the proxies match the original source media, and render the proxies to a network location.
4 Select all of your original source media in the Media Pool, and choose “Link Proxy Media.”
5 Choose the proxy media at the network location where they’ve been rendered.
Proxy Media vs. Other Playback Optimizations in DaVinci Resolve
There continue to be other methods of optimizing real time performance in DaVinci Resolve, so it’s natural that one might wonder how this is different from Optimized media, Timeline Proxy Mode, and other performance optimization techniques available in DaVinci Resolve. The key aspect of proxy media that differentiates it is that proxy media is independent, portable, and can be created by applications outside of DaVinci Resolve, if desired.
Proxy Media vs. Timeline Proxy Mode
One of the oldest performance optimization options, originally named “Proxy Mode” in previous versions of DaVinci Resolve, has been renamed “Timeline Proxy Mode” in DaVinci Resolve 17 to differentiate it from Proxy Media. While the new Proxy Media feature creates actual media files on disk, “Timeline Proxy Mode” simply reduces the resolution of the timeline on-the-fly, allowing for increased real time playback performance. To be clear, Proxy Media and Timeline Proxy Mode are two entirely different features, which are wholly independent of one another.
Proxy Media vs. the Render Cache
Proxy Media is designed to create easy-to-edit primary source material on the Timeline, for improved performance before you start editing. The Render Cache is designed to improve the real time performance of clips that have enough computationally intensive effects (such as Resolve FX, color corrections, noise reduction, compound clips, fusion compositions, etc.) to slow playback, even at the current Timeline resolution. Proxy Media is independent and portable (you can move clips wherever you want; you just have to relink them afterward), while the Render Cache media is not designed to be moved or interacted with externally and only works with the project it was made for.