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Examples of Collaborators Working Together

The first collaborator that opens a timeline is the only person that can make editorial changes to that timeline in the Edit or Fairlight pages. Other collaborators who open that project are “locked out”

of making changes to the Edit or Fairlight pages, but they can see the Timeline, and they can make grading changes in the Fusion or Color pages. This means in situations where you want multiple editors to be working on a project, it can be ideal to organize your program into separate “reels,” where each reel of a project is a separate timeline in a separate bin.

Multiple Editors Working Together

The first collaborator that opens a timeline is the only person that can make editorial changes to that timeline in the Edit or Fairlight pages. Other collaborators who open that project are “locked out”

of making changes to the Edit or Fairlight pages, but they can see the Timeline, and they can make grading changes in the Fusion or Color pages. This means in situations where you want multiple editors to be working on a project, it can be ideal to organize your program into separate “reels,” where each reel of a project is a separate timeline in a separate bin.

On the other hand, if two or more editors must both work on the same timeline, this can be accomplished using duplicate timelines and then merging the changes back together later on. For example, collaborating editor Anne can do the following to make changes to a timeline that editor Erin is already working on:

— First, Anne can duplicate the locked timeline into a separate bin from the one Erin has a lock on. Alternately, Erin could be proactive and duplicate the timeline into a separate bin in advance.

— Second, Anne will re-edit the duplicate timeline to make whatever changes are necessary to a different scene than the one Erin is currently working on. Working on different scenes is the cleanest and easiest way of using this workflow.

— Third, Anne uses Collaborative Chat to notify Erin that the changes are finished.

— Fourth, Erin then refreshes the project to see Anne’s updated duplicate timeline in the Media Pool, right-clicks it, and chooses Compare With Current Timeline from the contextual menu to show

the Timeline Comparison window that makes it possible to merge the changed section of the duplicate timeline with the original timeline that Erin already has open.