drtdsjlp wrote:I did, and would never do it again.
I've used google drive for a while trusting the crazy fast internet we have, and had a lot of original footage (braw) corrupted. Turns out, bites flying in the air is not as reliable as bites flowing through a cable, and causes problems when you are editing in da vinci. I had to contact Blackmagic support (they couldn't do anything) and had to pay a lot to get footage recovered. Always use an external hard drive for editing. You can still use google drive for backups but I wouldn't trust it.
1. He said DATABASE. He is not putting the footage on Google Drive. The Disk Database is a completely different thing.
2. Who puts thier footage on Google Drive and doesn't keep a local backup...
... and why would anyone put anything, other than small proxies, on a cloud storage service; unless they're using some higher-end Avid infrastructure with stupendous internet connections?
The kind of internet connection you need ot make this work doens't make sense for most people. You're better off just buying a 4TB NVMe drive and putting it in a USB 3.2 Gen 2 or Thunderbolt Case and carrying that around with you... Hell, you can even put the disk database there, if you can ensure drive letter consistency across the machines.
In any case, this is probable the most unfortunate aspect of using Resolve Studio. It's really not convenient if you aren't using it on a single machine.
You can always try to make the project server work for you, though that depends on your internet connection.