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When a shared project is opened by someone else after it’s already been opened, a dialog informs you that it’s being opened in Read-only mode to prevent multiple users from accessing the project at the same time. If you load a Read-only project and decide you want to make changes anyway, you’ll need to use the Save As command to create a duplicate project file using a new name in order to preserve your work.
Using Collaborative Workflow for Network Project Libraries
Alternately, you can use the Collaborative Workflow features in DaVinci Resolve to enable multiple collaborators on multiple workstations in multiple rooms to open and work on the very same project at the same time. For example, an editor can be editing a project’s main timeline in one room, while an assistant organizes media and adds metadata within the same project in another room, and a colorist grades dailies in that same project in yet another room, all accessing the same
Project Server which allows them to work together in parallel. For more information, see Chapter 195, “Collaborative Workflow.”
All participants in a Collaborative Workflow must be using a network project library on a Project Server that’s properly set up.
Connecting to a Network Project Library on a DaVinci Resolve Project Server
The main difference between a local project library, and a network project library is that the network project library resides on another computer connected on the same network running the
DaVinci Resolve Project Server. Setting up the Project Server itself is covered later in this chapter, but as a network project user in DaVinci Resolve you will need to understand how your local workstation connects to the Project Server.
Once the hardware and software install is done (essentially all computers connected on the same network, all running DaVinci Resolve, and one computer running the Project Server), you will need to authorize your computer to access the network project libraries on the Project Server and this is handled by “keys.”
If you want to have access to a network project library you must be provided a key to it that is generated by the Project Server. The key is simply an .xml file with the extension “.resolvedbkey”.
1 Open DaVinci Resolve, and when the Project Manager appears, open the Project Libraries sidebar.
2 Drag the .resolvedbkey file and drop it anywhere within the Project Manager.
3 The shared project library should now appear in the Project Libraries sidebar, and if you select it, you’ll see all of the projects that are located in that project library on the Project Server.
You also may have been set up as a Member of the Project Server, and provided your own username and password. If that is the case, see the section “Connecting to an Existing Network Project Library” below.
Once you are connected to a network project library, you can manage them just as if you were connected locally.