Saving a project at different points

I just installed Resolve and am interested in moving to it from Premiere Pro. However, my first concern is around my normal Premiere workflow, which includes saving my projects with a different ending letter at each stage, allowing me to jump to any set of edits and resources to go in a different direction easily.

I tried that with Resolve, and had specified a folder just for my Resolve projects. However, I could not find a way to call up, re-load, open a previous version. And when I went to my Resolve folder, there was not anything there with the name I gave my project, let alone the various phases.

Could someone point me in the right direction on how to do something similar in Resolve, please? - Thanks

Projects live in the Resolve database. You can export a project to a folder and you’ll see it as a .drp. Such a file can be imported into the database but Resolve only opens projects once they’re in the database.

If you open the project manager you’ll probably see the projects you’ve saved.


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Thank you Joe! I got tied up with a couple translation projects and just returned to my video editing. Thanks for such a great explanation, and so quickly - sorry I just now found it!

A slight change in work flow might work for you here.

Instead of a new incremental project file, create a new timeline.

Instead of a new incremental project file, create a new timeline.

This is the way.
“Duplicate timeline” like every 3 hours or major revision or what have you. Way easier to keep organized.

It is *not* the way. Try that with a large project and long timelines, and you'll live to regret it.

it's "a way"... there's more than one way....

i use it with large projects and mutiple timelines, mostly feature films, sometimes as many as 100+ iterations, and on every project
i have seven features in the database today, total of around 500 timelines, each around 95 min

duplicating + incrementing works trouble free in my use case, guess i can live without regrets

Depends on your machine. I second the export of a .drp for those without a serious beast.

I also use timeline versioning within projects without issue, no regrets... but I also make a point of disabling those versions until I need them, so I don't bog down anything unnecessarily. I don't think the workflow needs to be machine specific. To be fair, like any sane person, I also export a backup DRP at the end of each day... and at key moments when I'm feeling jumpy. :)