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Hi,

I only currently use Resolve Studio for Youtube videos and holiday stuff so I run locally.

Recently, a friend (using Resolve Free version) asked if I could help him with his GoPro travel videos.

With the new v17 collaboration server, do I need to change my local projects and somehow convert to a Postgres server or am I missing something?

Maybe this new feature is meant for more-professional Studio houses.

I'm unsure of the next steps.
Has anyone taken this further and can provide some insight?

Thanks
Martin

In the past, the feature was meant for use by machines in the same building connected to the same server. Trying to work over the Internet was...difficult.

I understand things have changed on this front somewhat. But I believe the new collaboration features won't be available until 17 comes out of beta.

Collaboration won't work unless you are both connected to a high-speed network together. And it's only a Studio feature now, though they have promised to roll it out as an update to the free version because of COVID. (An update after v17 is out of beta, I assume.)

So if the other person is coming over your office or house and you're going to both be on your LAN, it'll work. (As you say, you'll have to set up a Postgres server, etc.) Literally working remotely across the Internet probably won't work.

That said, version 17 has a couple of features that can help with remotely collaborating. (Even if it's not Collaboration.) For example:

1. Proxy workflow. If your friend has v17, they can create Proxy media of all of their GoPro video so that they can ship it to you via Dropbox or Google Drive, etc, without upload/download taking forever. (The new Proxy feature is totally different from what used to be called Proxy before v17. That older Proxy is now known as Timeline Proxy, and it was never meant to be user accessible, much less shareable.)

2. Export Bin and Export Timeline. You can now export a bin or timeline, which is small, and send it to them and they can import it to see what you've done.

So basically, you get Proxy (much smaller) footage from your friend and do some editing, then export the timeline and send it back. They you can both be looking at your edit while you chat about it. When your friend is happy, they've got the edit (and Color, etc) on their machine and their original, high-res GoPro footage and they can take it from there. (I think they can use their original footage all along the process, you're the one who will be using Proxy versions.)

It's not instant and live like Collaboration, but it'll work across consumer-grade Internet. Of course, you'll want to run a test -- like your friend putting a few clips in a separate Bin and then making the proxies and sending to you, then you import, edit, export a timeline with a few edits, some Color, some titles, etc, and send it back, and they import it. Once you can get that working -- and see any gotcha's you'll be able to decide if a full-on project will work. (Complications could include: Fusion Comps, using your own media which you have to share separately with your friend, etc. But I don't know.)