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Hi all

Trying to convey to my students the best way to work on Resolve projects between home and school.

The best way, I think, would be for them all to have external hard drives with all their media that they bring back and forth between home and school. This is not the case, but most have computers at home. At the least they can have duplicate datasets at both home and school and then just relink

I imagine that I should be telling them when they are finished at either home or school they should export projects and rename them each time by appending V1, V2, V3 onto the name of the project, as they go.

1. Is this the best way to think about this?
2. This really gets them into a good habit with naming conventions and versioning, but keep in mind these are college students - might there be a better easier way?
3. Archiving is just going to create redundant data sets.
4. I just tried it and got no farther than the home machine export. Despite having the same version of resolve on both machines, I was never able to import the project that I had exported - I just got a spinning circle.

Thanks for your help!

Michael

They may not even need to relink if they setup mapped mounts under preferences/media storage. There are some complex scenarios where this is not practical, but if all the media is under a single path it will work.

The versioning you describe is feasible. Although not too practical if you want to have home/school nomenclature at parity. And of course, they will generate a lot of projects this way.

You may want to consider setting up a Postgres server that's accessible from either location. That way there'd be no operational difference whether they use home or school machines.

mikefilmguy2 wrote:Hi all

Trying to convey to my students the best way to work on Resolve projects between home and school.

The best way, I think, would be for them all to have external hard drives with all their media that they bring back and forth between home and school. This is not the case, but most have computers at home. At the least they can have duplicate datasets at both home and school and then just relink

I imagine that I should be telling them when they are finished at either home or school they should export projects and rename them each time by appending V1, V2, V3 onto the name of the project, as they go.

1. Is this the best way to think about this?
2. This really gets them into a good habit with naming conventions and versioning, but keep in mind these are college students - might there be a better easier way?
3. Archiving is just going to create redundant data sets.
4. I just tried it and got no farther than the home machine export. Despite having the same version of resolve on both machines, I was never able to import the project that I had exported - I just got a spinning circle.

Thanks for your help!

Michael

I use the appending V1, V2, V3 onto the name of the project, but also set a folder with the project name for the named project to go into. That keeps project management a little easier on the eyes. I have the footage on both machines or on a USB 3 drive.

Read this please:

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=71894

You will need to make sure your system is fully compatible with whichever version of Resolve you are using (check the config guide on the support page), and this goes for your students too if they are working on their own machines. Also, always check the manual to see whether it has a solution to any problems you or your students may encounter.

we do this alot, sent a DRP to a vfx editor tonight,called "v05.25_color_notes"
tomorrow i will get a DRP called "v05.26_vfx_r3_cut_in"

we have drives matching with the same mapping / folders / media

we call it passing the "the football", only one version can be edited at any given time, hence the "football"

keeping everything clean, esp nameing is key to a trouble free life