Blackmagic Server vs Dedicated Server

Getting started with Blackmagic Cloud? Ask questions here about setup, sharing media, live syncing directly to DaVinci Resolve and more!
  • Author
  • Message
Offline

Barberian

  • Posts: 3
  • Joined: Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:57 pm
  • Real Name: Garnet Barber

Blackmagic Server vs Dedicated Server

PostMon Jun 16, 2025 12:07 pm

Hello I'm looking to find out the benefits of purchasing the monthly Dedicated Server Libraries vs the regular cloud servers. Currently we have a team that shoots footage during the day and uploads in the evening for our editors to take over and turn around by morning. Since we can only upload one project at a time until the sync is complete this sometimes takes 10-30 minutes per project.

Only difference I can see right now is it allows you to go from 10 users up to 20. I was hoping there would be a noticeable speed increase for uploading and downloading footage to cloud projects in peak times. Since currently there is times when it crawls and the cloud upload seems to be the bottleneck.
Offline
User avatar

CUBuffskier

  • Posts: 216
  • Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2019 10:39 pm
  • Location: NYC
  • Real Name: Chadwick Shoults

Re: Blackmagic Server vs Dedicated Server

PostMon Jun 23, 2025 3:40 pm

I can't speak to speed increases for loading footage.

However, we did see a significant improvement in responsiveness when moving to dedicated servers for the project library editing performance—less lag, especially at peak times.
Chadwick
CreativeVideoTips.com
Finishing Editor & Resolve Trainer
Offline

Rohit Gupta

Blackmagic Design

  • Posts: 1691
  • Joined: Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:00 am

Re: Blackmagic Server vs Dedicated Server

PostTue Jun 24, 2025 8:06 am

A dedicated server is mainly a guaranteed performance thing, you are in control of how many users are using it, and what load is on the server. There are different options for the size of your organisation and number of concurrent users, and you can choose based on your needs.
Rohit Gupta

DaVinci Resolve Software Development
Blackmagic Design

Return to Blackmagic Cloud

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 32 guests