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I set up a new database on my Nas server and none of my power grades are in it. How do I copy my local power grades in mass from my local database to my network database?

Thanks.

Because of the amount of freelance work I do around town, I made a PowerGrades folder that I throw on a thumbdrive and take along with me (assuming I can get USB access to the client computer). I can always restore these in a few minutes whenever I create a new Project Database.

I export each PowerGrade folder to its own similarly-named folder, and I also create an embedded graphic for each PowerGrade (and a label) so I can see at a glance what I have. Make sure you name each Gallery Still and also Name Each Node when you create the Powergrade. From inside the new Resolve system (or on another database), I create a new Powergrade folder and label it accordingly. Then I switch to "1 Still Per Scene" and import just the DRX files, which also brings along the associated still frame.



I have hundreds and hundreds of them (looks and fixes and node setups, oh my), so it helps to stay organized and have different folders for different looks or different projects (or different effects). Be aware that you can't move Powergrades -- or grades of any kind -- from 20 back to 19. You can always go up a version, but never down.

I don't know of a way to move or copy Powergrades within the Gallery database itself, but I'm all ears if somebody has a method.

Marc Wielage wrote:Because of the amount of freelance work I do around town, I made a PowerGrades folder that I throw on a thumbdrive and take along with me (assuming I can get USB access to the client computer). I can always restore these in a few minutes whenever I create a new Project Database.

I export each PowerGrade folder to its own similarly-named folder, and I also create an embedded graphic for each PowerGrade (and a label) so I can see at a glance what I have. Make sure you name each Gallery Still and also Name Each Node when you create the Powergrade. From inside the new Resolve system (or on another database), I create a new Powergrade folder and label it accordingly. Then I switch to "1 Still Per Scene" and import just the DRX files, which also brings along the associated still frame.



I have hundreds and hundreds of them (looks and fixes and node setups, oh my), so it helps to stay organized and have different folders for different looks or different projects (or different effects). Be aware that you can't move Powergrades -- or grades of any kind -- from 20 back to 19. You can always go up a version, but never down.

I don't know of a way to move or copy Powergrades within the Gallery database itself, but I'm all ears if somebody has a method.

You have to drag each one, 1 by 1, or can you grab multiple drx files?

I find this a hard to believe with as many databases people have to create that I have to drag the powergrades in like this.. I should be able to backup a database and be able to restore a database to a network.


Hmm.
Have you tried copying them as Stills then saving it to a Project file Then dragging them to the PowerGrade Albums? I wonder if this would work.

This is crazy

If you want to avoid manually exporting/importing powergrades, use the OS to make a copy of the database folder (the database with the powergrades), rename the folder to distinguish it from the original, connect to it with the new name, delete all the projects and then use it as a template for all future databases.

Meaning, make a copy of it, rename it, connect to it, etc. each time you want a new database with the old powergrades This process will retain not only the powergrades, but powerbins, settings, etc.

At some point, the database format of the template will be so out of date, you'll probably want to start the process from scratch with the latest format. But good for a year or so at the outset. Unfortunately, there's no obvious procedure (recommended or not) to manually extract the powergrades from one database and paste into another. Unclear where in the database they're stored, unless somebody here figured it out.

John Paines wrote:If you want to avoid manually exporting/importing powergrades, use the OS to make a copy of the database folder (the database with the powergrades), rename the folder to distinguish it from the original, connect to it with the new name, delete all the projects and then use it as a template for all future databases.

Meaning, make a copy of it, rename it, connect to it, etc. each time you want a new database with the old powergrades This process will retain not only the powergrades, but powerbins, settings, etc.

At some point, the database format of the template will be so out of date, you'll probably want to start the process from scratch with the latest format. But good for a year or so at the outset. Unfortunately, there's no obvious procedure (recommended or not) to manually extract the powergrades from one database and paste into another. Unclear where in the database they're stored, unless somebody here figured it out.

I thought about doing this but it doesn't work with how Wire Bear Studio Server creates new projects.