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Introduction to Collaborative Workflow
Multi-user collaborative workflow allows simultaneous editing, compositing, grading, and Media Pool clip management by multiple people within a single project that has been enabled for collaboration. Collaboration takes three different forms:
— Using bin locking, multiple editors can simultaneously edit different timelines in different bins of the same project, while assistant editors can reorganize clips and edit the metadata in other bins within the same project. Bins are automatically locked when selected by a particular user and unlocked when deselected by that same user, or they can be manually set to be either locked or unlocked as circumstances require.
— Using clip locking, multiple colorists and compositing artists can work together in the same timeline, in either the Color page or Fusion page, without fear of overwriting one another’s work. A clip is locked automatically when a user selects that clip to work on, and is unlocked (with the work checked in) when that same user selects a different clip. Clip locking in the Fusion page is maintained separately from clip locking on the Color page, so a compositing artist and colorist can work together on the same shot.
— One editor, one compositing artist, and one colorist can work together on the same clip in the same Timeline of the same project without conflict.
Overall, working in DaVinci Resolve in Collaborative Workflow mode is identical to working in non- collaborative mode. However, there are a few collaborative capabilities that are worth knowing about.
Collaborative Render Cache Support
Each collaborator on a project will have the exact same render cache format settings automatically configured across all machines. If you are collaborating across operating systems (Mac, Windows, Linux), it is important that the Render Cache Format is set to a codec that is supported by all platforms.
Collaborative Support for Individual Monitoring
If necessary, each collaborator on a project can override the output and monitoring settings of a project on their particular workstation. When a project is set to use Collaborative Workflow, a
“Use Local Overrides” checkbox appears in the Video Monitoring group of the Project Settings that lets you choose how to monitor on your particular workstation.