I've hit a problem with the Fusion training materials.
I am doing all 4 training courses; Color, Editing, Fairlight, and Fusion, and I've unzipped all the media files to the folder "S:\Resolve Training Media\Fusion". Not too long a name, right?
However, the foreground element of the Chapter 3 Sky Replacement section was showing as offline. Looking in the media pool, I can see that the source path should be... *deep breath*
"
S:\Resolve Training Media\Fusion\DR18_Fusion_Training_Media\R18 Fusion Guide Lessons\Fusion 18 Lessons part 1.dra\MediaFiles\Fusion 17 Lessons part 1.dra\MediaFiles\R17 Fusion Guide Lessons\Media\Blackmagic URSA 1_1_2016-03-03_0739_C0013_[000000-001376].dng.mov".
That beast is 266 characters long, 6 characters longer than the
NTFS maximum allowed path length. macOS users are fine, with the HFS+ limitation of 1024 characters, but all Windows users would hit this problem unless they unzip to the root folder of their media drive, which isn't reasonable IMHO.
Honestly, I'm confused as to how I've not seen anyone point this out already.
I think that all reference to "Fusion 17" and "R17" need to go, and these files need reorganising and republishing to avoid this issue.