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— Upon being notified that they can begin work, one or more compositing artists start working through the Fusion clip compositions while the editor is working, to create each multi-layered composite that’s necessary. As each compositing artist finishes a clip and moves to a new clip to begin work, the editor sees a notification badge at the upper-right corner of each clip in the Timeline that’s been composited, as well as notification badges in the Bin List of the Media Pool,
and at the upper-right corner of the Timeline viewer. Clicking any of these badges will refresh one or more of these clips, so the editor can see the changes.
Multiple Compositing Artists Working Together
To prevent versioning issues, only one compositing artist can work on a particular clip at a particular time in the Fusion page, and the first compositing artist to select a clip puts a lock on that clip. Other collaborators looking at the Thumbnail timeline in the Fusion page will see a small icon that shows it’s locked, letting them know they can’t make any changes to it until whoever is working on that composition moves to another clip.
A small icon indicates that you’re
locked out because another compositing artist is working on that clip
This means that multiple compositing artists can’t work on the same composition at the same time. However, an assisting compositing artist can do preparatory work on one composition, such as doing rotosocoping, paint, particle system design, or any other time-consuming task, while a lead compositing artist works on another shot in the meantime. Once the assisting compositor is done, they can select another clip to work on and use collaborative chat to let the other compositor know they’re done and that clip is ready for more work.
In order to prevent half-finished work from being disseminated to other collaborators, a clip that’s in the process of being worked on in the Fusion page isn’t updated for anyone else who’s working on that same timeline until the compositing artist who’s working on it selects another clip. Immediately upon being deselected, all changes are automatically checked in and made available to all other collaborators, who see notification badges in the Fusion page and the Edit page to alert them that changes are available and that they can refresh their timeline to see the updates.
Editors and Colorists Working Together
Colorists and editors can work together very closely in DaVinci Resolve, as colorists can grade the shots of a timeline that an editor is currently working on, even though that timeline and the bin it’s in are locked to other editors.
From the colorist’s point of view, whenever the editor makes an alteration to the Timeline, a badge appears at the upper-right corner of the Color page Viewer to indicate that a change has been made to the timeline being graded. Clicking this badge updates the timeline the Colorist is working on.