EVERY Tip YOU NEED for Blackmagic Cloud Collaboration in Resolve 18

[@CreativeVideoTips]

00:00 Blackmagic Cloud Tutorial 00:42 Blackmagic Cloud ID 01:33 Dropbox Proxy Syncing 02:23 What's a Proxy? 03:10 Blackmagic Proxy Generator 04:01 Shrink your Video Files 04:50 Relink Proxy in DaVinci Resolve 18 05:33 Dropbox Preferences 05:52 Blackmagic Cloud Project Library Setup 06:30 Share Cloud Library 07:14 Multiple User Collaboration 07:27 Relink Media 07:56 Automatic Bin Locking 08:49 Tools Are Grey'd Out 09:56 Purple Proxy Bar 10:17 Accepting Changes 11:01 Color Grading 11:35 Manual Bin Locking 12:08 Read-Only Bins 12:28 Clip Locking 13:13 Chat Window 13:48 Bi-Directional Sync 14:27 How to Record a Voice Over in DaVinci Resolve 18 15:41 Edit and Sync VO File over Dropbox 16:40 Timeline Comparison

[@nowSimon]

I just spent over 2 hours troubleshooting cloud collab and for some reasons all videos seem to leave this out (maybe too obvious? idk). Thank you for the video though Chadwick! We had a problem with (re)linking the proxies. Even though they live in a Google Drive folder we both have access to, my file path looks different from my collaborator's file path. So if I link the file, it gets unlinked for him, because the project only has one file path per file. How to solve??? Enter PATH MAPPING! This feature translates allows Resolve to understand /file/path/1 as an equal to file/path/2. This helps translate between individual machines in separate domains, translate Mac to Windows file paths etc. Go to Project Preferences (cog in the bottom right in Resolve) > Path Mapping. Enter the file path to where your proxies or files live. Save. Now your collaborator can go into the same menu and hit the "Browse..." button on the right, and enter the path to where their files live. Hope it helps somebody! : )

[@great-sam]

yes path mapping is the answer to syncing two different file paths together. Thank you!

[@EspenJohan]

Blackmagic is a awesome company, they dont rip of the users the same way Adobe do. Great video👍👍

[@CreativeVideoTips]

They sure are! I’m not even affiliated with them at all other than being a huge fan of organizations that hold high values to put customers first. Thanks for watching!

[@tshansen]

This is by far the best overview of the many features I have seen so far. Trying to figure it all out with fractions from each video, and this just gives you the whole recipe step by step. Damn this was amazing. Thank you so much and keep rocking with this content. Highly appreciated mate. Cheers from Norway

[@RobinParmar]

I will piggyback here to also praise this video. Very clear and informative!

[@olympic_productions]

Mate. Thank you so much for that video. You broke down every single necessary detail incredibly fast AND sufficiently. LEGEND.

[@billyoung9538]

Of all the videos I've seen on this subject so far this is by far the best. Keep up the great work!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Wow, thanks! Glad you liked it. I really appreciate the kind words Bill.

[@tomdchi12]

Excellent overview. Despite watching a few other videos on these new features, I actually get what the heck is going on! I really like how Blackmagic is approaching this. This is in contrast to folks like Autodesk, the behemoth of CAD software, where their moves into "collaborative cloud" systems have been 100% focused on locking users into subscriptions and keeping critical files on their cloud. BM is giving off-ramps for stopping the recurring fees and keeping files on users' own computers, which is super important. One now pointless thing stood out - Davinci should have had this level of proxy handling several years ago back when many people were struggling to cope with 4k footage, but it's great that it's here now. And yes, I very much hope that Blackmagic sends out their new hardware to folks like you who can review them from a working perspective. Personally, I am very interested in the Cloud Pod as an alternative to trying to juice up a Synology NAS to edit files from a central location over a LAN.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks Thomas, I'm glad this was helpful. If you've had a chance to watch Grant do his press release on the blackmagic channel I encourage you to at least watch the opening. It speaks to your point exactly. BMD is a company with a vision that continues to focused on the customer and democratizing high end video production. I can get behind that! Cheers.

[@HoundDogMech]

​@@CreativeVideoTips Let me ask When is the last time you had to collaborate with anyone to produce anything on DR for your ​ @Creative Video Tips Chanel.

[@RenataPereiraTV]

Thanks for the video! Love it. I’m rewatching multiple times just to understand your process for remote editing with Dropbox. I’m looking for best practices to work with a remote editor (I start the video and he finishes) and this was very useful

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Glad it was helpful Renata - Watch for the video coming out today on the Cloud Pod. Since you're already ahead of the game and into remote editor workflows - that's might be a great solution for both of you. I'm hoping for the google drive support to open this up to more people.

[@gevalddd]

This is very helpful Chadwick! Thank you for your time spent creating this! I keep coming back and rewatch your other editing videos (That tip you gave for swapping timelines in the source window with the selects timeline really changed the way I edit!). I would love to watch some more workflow tips videos - for example - your current workflow from camera, organizing bins, and creating the first rough cut - that would be awesome!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Glad it was helpful! It was fun getting to connect with Jeff, we both use to work together at an ad agency several years ago. Swap timeline and Source is the best keep secret in all of the edit page! I mean it shouldn't be a secret, but it's not commonly used. Thanks for the suggestions and encouragement.

[@edy5082]

Thanks for including the actual functions while in use! Really helps understand.

[@SmartEnergyLab]

Thanks Chadwick... another awesome tutorial. You've convinced me that it's time I started working with a collaborator.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Glad I could help!

[@avdcam]

I feel like the live collaboration on the same timeline is a massive difference between other NLE's like Premiere. Premiere has team projects which are a: limited to business level accounts and b: require significant higher monthly fees and mostly importantly C: really on'y allow for faster timeline sharing. There isn't anyway, that I know of, where you can split up the work like colour and fx, while editorial is still occuring. Resolve is really taking the cake on this one. If only you could do a mastering/mixing pass while editing was happening. Maybe someday. Auto bin locking is also next level.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Great points Aaron, very insightful! I'm not sure how mixing while editing would be possible because they're both timeline based, but - a common workflow is to lock a version, say for a screening, and then bounce out mixed splits for that - and then the editor will cut with the mixed splits on their timeline for future iterations and duplicated sequences. (muting the original audio)

[@avdcam]

@@CreativeVideoTips Yah I think that's what I'm hoping, as a workflow, might have an opportunity to change... Agreed they are both editing timeline, and the editing should remained locked, however, you could do a lot with track based or even down the road metadata based audio editing (kinda like how the colour panel works now in a sense). Even right now, they could potentially unlock the mixer panel in fairlight, while keeping the timeline locked in fairlight. If we could make track level adjustments, apply plugins, (let's say after a track order has been agree upon), adjust dynamic and processing, you might be in a position to keep cutting and adjusting timing even while a mixer is working on the mixing side of things. Sure an Audio Editor would have their hands tied, unable to do a foley pass or sound design pass without splitting out the timeline, but the mixer/mastering might still be possible while editorial is still fine tuning. Have you ever used FCPX? I always had this dream of a more metadata style workflow with audio mixing, and FCPX's role based system (vs tracks) is one method that could have some potential for a new mixing/mastering paradigm. If track assignments could be assigned through metadata instead of just manual placement, you could break apart some of the roles of the mixing stage and avoid bouncing mixes that get out of sync when changes are made. It could also lead to a much faster viewing/zooming adjustments (like in fcp) where you can focus on just the FX tracks quickly or just the VO tracks while minimizing the rest (fairlight does have some elements of this with the tracks resizing tools, but it's much more manual). Anyway, I could see a powerful case for a fairlight view that locks the timeline per se, but allows audio fx, audio adjustments and tracks adjustments to be enable for the audio mixer. Not unlike how a colourist has access to clip level adjustments and fx, but not timeline or track position. Add a little refresh symbol on the mixer panel in the edit view, and bam. All that being, said as I research the collaboration tools in other NLE recently to compare with where Resolve is now, it's fascinating. Adobe has had project level collaboration for years, but I really never tried it. Being locked to team level plans was a likely culprit, but damn even after years of it being around, it seems all you can do is lock/unlock timelines and share timeline changes (without a timeline comparison tool mind you) and offers nothing like realtime collaboration. I can't wait for Canada to go online, being able to colour or do fx in the same timeline is Google Drive level innovation.

[@MasterAlvarez]

Thank you brother! I learn so much from you!!!! I appreciate your time making all these tutorials!!! 🙏🏼

[@CreativeVideoTips]

dude thank you! I'm sorry i'm so far behind on comments and missed this. I really appreciate your generosity!

[@WanderlustWonderscape]

I appreciate the time and effort that went into this video. High production value pays off.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

This was a fun one. Thanks for the kind words and watching Paul.

[@LashonDCampbell]

Good morning to you, You have such a informative channel here. I really enjoyed watching your video today. Huge fan of this lovely channel

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks so much Lashon! And good morning to you too. I hope you have a great day.

[@25mileswest86]

Thanks Chadwick, great vid; ton of good content covered. BM seem to be really nailing this...

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Much appreciated!

[@smepable]

Thank you so much for going all these options!!!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

You are so welcome!

[@Levi3D]

Best 'real world case' tutorial I've seen. Now I have to get two FCP disciples converted!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Heck yeah Lee! I hate to steer people away from what they're comfortable with, but if you have the chance to work together it is so worth it! Good luck.

[@matoflynn]

Chadwick rocks, thank you for all the detail on this!

[@AirlinersLive]

Great video thank you. Just started using collab tools today!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks for watching, have fun with the new tools!

[@wkmpellucid]

Thanks, Chadwick - hope to use this soon.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks so much for watching Keith, let me know what your experiences are when you try it out.

[@vampireeditor]

Totally going to try this out.

[@JimRobinson-colors]

It surely gives people the idea and how it can be done. I have a feeling when I start though that a lot of those steps are going to be trial and error for awhile. Baby steps for me. I still haven't got my head around the proxy generator completely. I think the confusion with the proxy generator is when people don't have their original media in one location, it's not self explanatory as to how to approach that. My guess is to organize the original media into one folder then drag it onto the proxy generator would keep it to the most simple config. Good job on this Chadwick.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

That always means a lot coming from you Jim. Thanks! Yes writing proxy files to the same location doesn't always make the most sense. I would imagine this is a possible future update that can solve this. The extract command already tracks to move, so it seems like it could be a simple task. The thing I want to try soon is the render farm scenario to batch dailies with it. I also wish I could bake LUTs in to send to other systems.

[@JimRobinson-colors]

@@CreativeVideoTips In the old days I used to burn in stuff into proxies as well. I think that might be tough with this app

[@movie-trailer19]

So they told me in detail, everything is on the case and without water. Very very useful tips when working together. I was particularly interested in working on DropBox. The only thing from the first time that where to find and where to click, it will not work the first time. There are many things here that you need to pay attention to so that everything works correctly. And so interesting

[@PictureBLVD]

Wow…really good explained and fun watching it.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@nathanhirsch4408]

Thanks for the great overview! Dumb question...can I use this as a NAS to access my photos remotely as well? Or does this sync/access only work with Resolve. Thanks!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks Nathan, I'm not sure I'm following the question though. Are you referring to the new Cloud Store they announced? If so, that actually is a NAS, and "should" work with any type of files - but the way they are dealing with the remote sync or viewing is just using dropbox. Files would live and be worked on locally, but using dropbox as an intermediate step to move them. I hope to have a cloud store mini in soon to work with and answer more questions.

[@adnh-thearchive194]

Such a good video - thank you! I'm only confused about one thing - when you're adding new files (like the disclaimer image) onto the timelines, how did davinvi know to place the PNG into dropbox / how did it know where to place it in the dropbox so it would sync to your second editor's machine. Do I have to do something specific to my cloud project for this to happen automatically? I'm not using a proxy workflow for my project so maybe that's part of the problem?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks, this sync was just done by syncing the folder with the Dropbox app outside of resolve. Nothing special is syncing with resolve and proxies in this case.

[@joshuachinn5953]

Thanks for all your helpful videos Chadwick! May I suggest a short tutorial video on POST HASTE? Cheers!

[@RyanOsmond]

Dude, you're a LEGEND, your content is flawless, well executed, to the point and super informative. I switched from PR Pro to FCPX last year at the time it was a game changer for me but lacked features I missed on PR. Now you've convinced me to switch again, which is a pain, but I think it will really help me with collaboration. Thanks for the 🔥content. You got a new sub here 👍

[@RyanOsmond]

Also, question... How much do you actually find yourself using the speed editor? Do you find yourself resorting to the regular keyboard instead?

[@GatesRick]

Amazing work! Thanks for staging a real-time collab. And thanks for always remembering those little Preferences and Project Settings that need to be switched on/off. Really thorough job.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks so much for the kind words and taking a look Rick. There is a new Path mapping option that I neglected to talk about, but this is a new way to make sure different editors footage links automatically when syncing over a cloud service. We had done this without that feature, but it should help.

[@martinfox4569]

That’s great! Your tutorials are so well thought through, great channel

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Glad you found this new feature helpful. Thanks so much for your kind works Martin, I appreciate you watching.

[@alaran54]

Great video, congratulations. I wanted to know what kind of dropbox account should I have? normal or business? and how much storage? the same dropbox capability as the projects you want to collaborate on?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Hey thanks so much for watching this morning. I have a 2tb personal/normal plan. This is good for one user login, but then I can share this to anyone else with a login. Because you don’t need to keep footage loaded all the time 2tb is enough for me to work. For big teams you can always increase your storage. You also aren’t limited to using Dropbox. Google drive is another very popular option as well as some other peer to peer bit torrent type applications.

[@infinite.spaces]

Such an awesome video, thanks for answering my prayers! One thing I didn't see in use here is path mapping. Is there a scenario where those are needed?

[@MoriartyUncut]

Thanks so much for this tutorial!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Any time!

[@ricklunn7806]

Thank you. You're awesome. Simplify the process and deliver it quick. How many words per minute do you speak, lol?

[@rviscariello]

This is the best overview on the setting up the cloud i've seen. I'm wondering if the proxies/originals are one directional? Meaning, if person A who initially has the originals and made proxies if they will get the originals that are created by person B e.g. they make a render in place video and add to timeline or other content?

[@satnemip]

Thanks for the great video, Chadwick! I got only one doubt: what's the purpose of that last functionality you showed? You know, the one where you accept changes from one timeline to another. Some kind of versioning? Thanks!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Yeah its not uncommon to have an assistant working on a a version of a cut that just varies a little from the previous version. This lets you quickly see the changes and then have the option to accept the changes to the master timeline.

[@satnemip]

@@CreativeVideoTips Got it! Thanks a lot for the fast response!

[@Patrick-mg7vv]

This is great info, thanks Chadwick.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks for watching Patrick :)

[@JeffBousquet]

Thanks for this stellar video man! It was a huge help!!

[@javajack-1]

Hey, thanks again, we’ve tested this pretty thoroughly and everything reconnected and we just found a few files missing that weren’t in the directory for all the camera media, but easy to find and reconnect. One thing that surprised me is that the stills are missing. I always do a lot of stills for grades when doing a television series. For grades that end up being used in subsequent episodes I use power grade, but again none of that came across. Any tips for this?

[@ProvidFilmsEdits]

Hi CVT! thanks for this tutorial! I have questions. 1. When you recorded that voice-over, does that audio file only stored in Jeff's Computer? 2. What happens if Jeff logs out of his computer and shut it down, will still be able to proceed with editing and still have the files in the project? Thanks!

[@maxwuertt]

A great video like always! Can you do an update on the new Resolve Cloud Service? Maybe even Presentations and the new live upload with the new Firmware. It is supposed to be fairly easy but I ran into some problems setting it up nonetheless. Thanks!

[@RusstafaB]

Excellent tutorial the most thorough one I have watched so far. BM should put this on their site to get users going on their Cloud platform. Do you like the Samsung T7's thinking of buying a couple of them?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks so much! And yes at this point I think I have 4 or 5 of those T7s they are great for portable speed.

[@alanimber]

awesome tutorial. My main concern is if I am primarily using this feature for sending projects to colorists, they usually need the raw footage and not the proxies. which then leads to the biggest issue, how to quickly get files to them so they can link them with the project file. I wish black magic cloud was able to store the video files in the project files. thanks for the video!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

yeah, it depends on the size of the project - If my projects are going to LA for color, they usually go with Fedex on a drive. You do have a couple other options, one is to bake a flat prores master out for them, or run media manager to just send the clips with some handles.

[@timvs]

@@CreativeVideoTips Great video, thanks! I've just finished a project where we had 18TB of camera originals (4 days, 5 cameras, 4k) - even proxies were 100GB! So the production sent the colourist and I physical drives. We did have trouble at first; each time one of us linked to the media, the other was unlinked. We solved this by going to project settings and using the Path Manager to set the local location of our respective drives. As long as folder structure matches, this works fine. I'm not sure why we needed to do this; in other demos (yours included) this wasn't a problem even though you must have different paths to your local DropBox folders. It might be because he was on a PC and I was on a Mac. Anyway, just dropping this here as it might trip some people up.

[@PaulChelmisFilms]

@@timvs Thanks for taking the time to write this up, it's the first lead I've been able to find to resolve the same issue. Going to try this solution now. And FWIW, I'm having this problem on Mac to Mac, so it must be something else causing it.

[@mclanesnow9304]

Hey Chad, can you help talk about a workflow? I am shooting multiple cameras, time code synced, and audio saying on an external recorder. Want to get this into the cloud to use the power of multi user editing. When should I link the audio before or after proxies are created? Also how do I set up a template so I can have my title and credit sequence always in my projects ready to go and have them linked in? The title and credit sequence will be used on every project. Thanks for the help!

[@ginoamadori]

Excellent video Chadwick, I’m close to starting a big documentary in resolve and was wondering how buggy is that beta you’re testing? Thanks for all the great videos bro 🙌🏼

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks Gino, I haven’t pushed it super hard yet but haven’t noticed any obvious bugs.

[@ginoamadori]

@@CreativeVideoTips thanks again Chadwick!!

[@vampireeditor]

I work in documentaries and davinci is great! the only thing missing at the moment is a way to sync transcriptions with interviews. Something like Scriptsync in avid would be great.

[@jackofalltrades164]

I have tried to make the proxy the same way you did but i went from 62 to 11 gb so a great difference but not nearly as big as in your example. Might it be that i don't have raw footage but normal mp4

[@000manos]

Thanks for the greate tutorial! I'm working with a sound designer. We both have the same files. Whever he relinks the files i get missing media. And that's because the media locations is on a copletly different storage path (his mac). And when i relink on my end, he has the missing files for the same reason. How did you get past this? I have the same problem also with and editor.

[@daisytheduke9149]

Hey Man, great video and super insightful. Curious to know and understand the dropbox sync element in more detail? any tips, other than the pod box?

[@sanssoleilfilm]

Hi @CreativeVideoTips - I can't fint out in any of the tutorials how to handle the material besides the video material: that is audio, music, graphics, images etc - should they also be "proxies" in order to sync to the cloud? Sincerely

[@Hacktivator]

Hey. Very easy to follow instructions you have here. Question: can we actually have google drive act as dropbox does in terms of syncing media in real time when working in the timeline with newly created files such as that voice over?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Hi Levi, Thanks for the kind words. Yes google drive should work just the same to sync in real-time. I haven't tested this yet, but there's no reason it shouldn't. I am actually in the process this summer to moving most of my dropbox stuff into drive, so I'll for sure do an update after I have a solid answer. Cheers!

[@WesMann]

@@CreativeVideoTips Any news on this? Thanks!

[@directedbymarvin]

Great video as always! what app do you use to monitor your CPU?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

iStat Menu is what I have. It not necessary, but is cool to see all that is happening.

[@JasonVong]

Thank you for this video man! My editor and I slayed 3 projects with this cloud workflow! He works on it in NYC when I'm working on it in Japan. Because of the time difference, we can take turns without hopping on the same project together. However, sometimes it would be laggy & slow. For example, I would hit the play button but it would be a few seconds before it would play back. Both of us have all the files stored locally. Is there a way when one of us take over, we can edit as smooth as a non-cloud project?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks for the comment! Ah you are struggling with the physics of internet latency around the globe. NYC to Japan is a tough one. Essentially how it works is you are both hooking into the database that was setup based on the location when it was created. I use US-East since I'm in NY and it feels like a local project. If you're using US east in Japan that makes sense because there are at least 50ms latency across the oceans fiber connections. The workaround would be to do a copy project (button on the project manager), to make it local while working. Then do a copy back to the cloud for him to work in NY. If you worked this way I would be sure to date your project names to keep them organized.

[@JasonVong]

@@CreativeVideoTips thanks for replying and confirming! We ultimately started doing it this way for bigger projects! Keep up the good work!

[@infinityphotorob]

I am having trouble relinking proxies. It says invalid framerate or timecode. I see the file and it just will not link. This is with sony 120fps footage. I feel like this is so close and so far away

[@lastsonofthewest2444]

Just noticed your keyboard, and it is awesome! Can you please let me know the model/brand and where I can get one? Is it from Drop or Keychron?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Absolutely - here's an affiliate link Keychron C2 Keyboard ➡️ geni.us/keychron-c2 I think this is my favorite keyboard I've used, and it's only about 60 bucks.

[@lastsonofthewest2444]

@@CreativeVideoTips I have the K4 and the original Keychrons. Ordering this one now, thanks for the info!!

[@TimotheosEnterprisesMedia]

So, was you using the cloud store mini, or cloud pod at all? Or interfacing straight from hard drives to the cloud via your legacy internet connection? I know you touched on it, I just want clarification.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

I don't have any of the new cloud products - this is just the computer with an external attached drive. I hope to change that soon, but it wasn't in this video.

[@TimotheosEnterprisesMedia]

@@CreativeVideoTips thanks Chadwick!

[@TrueEssencePhotography]

Very Great Video! Trying to convince my friends to come over to davinci resolve hopefully this will convince them. Had to subscribe!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks so much! Hey I'm in the same boat hoping to get more colleagues on bored beyond color grading, so many still have yet to understand the power this tool has! Cheers.

[@mikematzdorff]

Thanks for a great vid... any chance you'd share your post haste template for film, and for TV ? more resolve centric?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

That's a great idea Mike. I'm putting that on my list here to try to do in the coming weeks. I'll probably just do a full post haste video, or blog on creativevideotips.com since it's been a while. I currently use 2 templates - one for KZbin and one for client work (mostly from ads). Thanks for watching - and if you're the Matzdorff from the FCPX world welcome! I think I've even bought your assistant book years back.

[@mikematzdorff]

@@CreativeVideoTips thanks! And yes, I’m the FCPX guy. Thanks for the purchase. That book helped a lot of people I’m told. Really love what DR is doing and excited to learn/build some Workflows. It should be used.

[@mrhobs]

Trying to figure out how you organized the files/folders/bins/whatever in the first place. I tried to add a folder (or bin?) under Master like you had for "Cuts," but it just adds another bin underneath. Right now we just have Master, which drops down to Videos, which contains Sequences, Music, etc... In Sequences we each have our own timeline. I feel like there is a better way to organize, so I was trying your method but couldn't even do it ha. Also, if my co-editor has already placed a bunch of in and out points on clips for his version... wouldn't messing with those effect his timeline or trip him up if he revisits those clips? My cut will likely be a bit different, so I want to set my own without messing with his clips. If I can see where he put in/out points, won't he see where I move them to? I need workflow advice ha.

[@THOMASTAYIMOEHL]

This is soooo nice.. does anybody know when it will be available in Europe? I live in spain and it always says that the service is unavailable.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

I agree. I'm digging it. I'm not sure when it's available in Europe, but it's my understanding that it will be asap.

[@titusking-coloradorealtor]

Great video! I have a scenario for you. I am not collaborating with anyone else, however I have a desktop PC for editing at my home office and a M1 Macbook pro for editing on the road. I want to be able to seamlessly go between the two computers to edit the same project. E.G. edit on the Macbook at my office, then come home and continue to edit the same project in my home office. Right now I have a DRV Database saved on a OneDrive account, along with all the media for those projects. It has been working, except for one project that got lost when OneDrive mistakenly overwrote a new project file with and older one. Fortunately the video was already done, but I'm concerned about it happening again. Would BM Cloud be the correct solution for this?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

This is almost the exact scenario except for the media that I have been using it like that since April. At $5 a month it gives me peace of mind and also a lot less managing projects.

[@javajack-1]

Thanks for this. If you are working in two locations and both have the footage, is it a big deal to relink in the off site location? We want to share an entire tv series with 6 episodes currently and 20 TB of footage and many graphics, etc. When the collaborator opens his projects offsite all his media will be offline, right, even if he has a duplicate of all the media on a drive connected to his system. It will all have to be reconnected, right? We are hoping to test this tomorrow but please give me any tips that would help with this. Thanks again. :)

[@CreativeVideoTips]

It works good as long as you have a sync in place - Your root folder and the rest ideally are mirrors of each other. Then there is a setting in the project settings for "path mapping" at the bottom. On the first relink this should set itself there and on the local computer this should be the directory of that local footage. Also - do the relink with the chain link icon for best results. Then you should be all set.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

also to note - 20TB of footage is a lot to keep in sync - I would suggest 1080p ProRes Proxy files for anybody that isn't outputting the masters.

[@javajack-1]

Thanks very much for getting back to me so quickly. Actually I’m the colorist and I always work with the full resolution footage in the final stage of the production. We have really fast computers and drives so I’m not concerned about the volume of footage. Thanks for your assistance. This is great info.

[@rdstudios-production]

Biggest question - do both editors need to have the cloud pod? If my editor already has the footage, does the box allow for the collaboration functionality?

[@kennypool8263]

Hey guys, awesome video! We have some trouble, maybe you had face that also and can help. We made proxy direct in DaVinci and sync that via the cloud to the cloud project. The cutter make his work and then the problem pops of, I want to render the video and in time line i see the cuttet version of my cutter and after rendering, at clips which are made from in-and-out points, the content which have to be in the clip is wrong. Also when render in place the content of the in and out are also wrong. Did you have an idea what's the problem is? Also when we face the issue, the cutter relink the media it's the same issue.

[@movieprof1]

Very helpful. Great teaching.

[@RanjanSharma2001]

This is going to open up great opportunity for remote collaboration & get best of the talents to work together on multiple projects. Amazing feature in 18. Can I request you to make tutorial how to grade for HDR HLG & HDR PQ using Log footage & iPhone 13 pro footage. I have searched & none of the youtubers have it set correctly, its all in bits & pieces.

[@FlyingLapMedia]

Is that a reference monitor you're using on the left? If so, which one?

[@jackofalltrades164]

Another question i have what footage do you put in the original project? the proxy or the original footage?

[@GaryCunninghamyouareenough]

So helpful as always - thanks so much man 🙏

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Always so encouraging as always - thanks Gary!

[@GaryCunninghamyouareenough]

@@CreativeVideoTips my absolute pleasure sir 🤘

[@benjoubert7263]

Really informative video thanks. I'm still just a little unsure about how the proxies over Dropbox works.. Do you send just the proxies without the original media through Dropbox and the person on the other end is able to edit with that footage just using the proxies? Or would they also need the original media?

[@alexlovell-smith6962]

I was going to ask the same question....

[@englishwithtroy]

Fantastic tutorial!

[@Nukemizer1]

What an awesome start to a Sunday. Thanks your clean install video I am loving the new upgrade . the cloud collaboration is awesome and I am setup on it now. The sync demo was great. Thank you for this walk through is so very helpful Thank you Chadwick ! Here is the question you asked for. What about assets ? images, Pictures, SFX and items that we might have in our Power bins. Do we have to locate and duplicate the assets to put into the sync bins ? What about Lut's and Fusion titles, fonts and other things that another editor might have when we do not.or something we have and they do not ?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Heck yeah, thanks for your continued encouragement Kevin! Yes power bins all of the assets you mentioned need to get transferred and in some cases installed on the editors computer. You can move local power bins with a dummy project to your new cloud library only containing the power assets. But they would need to be removed and relinked to a cloud shared folder. LUTs would and templates need to be imported each time because they are always looking at a local directory. One thing we learned doing this is my motion vfx title does not come across to Jeff’s computer. I suppose this is because of licensing or just not being installed. Fusion clips show as offline in the color page only, I think that might be a beta bug. Basically “normal” assets in a Dropbox folder should appear on everyone’s systems but things like LUTs and templates need to be properly imported or installed.

[@Nukemizer1]

@Creative Video Tips , Perfect. Thank you. All the best to you and your recovering finger 💪

[@CreativeVideoTips]

@@Nukemizer1 hey thanks - it’s pretty managed now. I’m headed to Vegas later today for NAB so no Tuesday video this week but stay tuned for new fun things I find out.

[@Nukemizer1]

@@CreativeVideoTips Have fun down there !!

[@michaelbowyer5222]

Son, that’s not what dailies were when I started, back when you had to walk uphill both ways in a foot of snow to get them-there telecine transfers and original camera neg from the lab…okay, I was actually taking cabs from Soho to Midtown.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Haha, fair enough. I entered into post, professionally as we were making the transition off of digibetas and dvcam to P2 cards and file based media. I love the nostalgia though. I think the only client I worked with that shot film (in the commercial world) in the last 10 years was the food DP for Arby's.

[@amirnaeem8096]

hey thank you so much for a very clear video explaining this great feature in resolve. I have a project in which i have a remote editor. we both have the original files on our own harddisks. but i want to be able to link the proxies in a way that lets each of us have our own proxy locations...we tried to use google drive for proxies but his file path for google drive will be different than mine...and anytime I relink my proxies...it makes his offline. how do i fix this so that we both use our own paths for proxy?

[@paulrossjones2234]

Hi, thanks for the video. Can you tell me if there is anyway of making proxies with any kind of LUT/look, ie, I don't think I would like to be editing proxies in log (if they are shot this way).

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Super smart question - and the answer is yes! However - it means you must create them the old fashioned way. But actually how most dailies are still done on set for larger productions. You need to place the files on a timeline - apply the look on the color page or with RCM - then export on the deliver page as "individual clips" and filename uses "source name". Another important step is to add reelnames which you setup in the project settings - general options - typically you want assist using reelnames turned on and using embedding in source clip file. I think Blackmagic ignores the need for this in the new proxy app because they want you to do everything in Resolve, but we all know that's not the case for most postproduction pipelines. Hope this helps!

[@dirtcreature3d]

Great video man, one question why do you prefer dropbox over google drive?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Hey thanks for watching! I honestly don't love either of them, but I do like that dropbox is working on replay which is a much better video player. The new Cloud Stores will work with Google Drive and Dropbox is what they say. If you already are invested in Google Drive, I would not switch.

[@persvanstrom]

I'm still a little lost. What if I want to create footage in two different locations but I'm the creator (working remotely 3 days / week)? I feel all BM Clould examples show how to share a full project for edit / coloring, but how would I set up actual physical footage creation?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Hi Per, you can certainly do this. The secret to making it work is having a synced dropbox or google drive folder at the different locations. Location A and B both create media locally, blast it up to a synced dropbox/drive folder, and it can auto download to new physical location. In general you want to keep parity of all the files in each location because you'll be in the same project and otherwise you'd have missing offline files.

[@persvanstrom]

@@CreativeVideoTips Makes sense and wow what a fast answer :) What you mention above is still in relation to what you showed in this vid right, using the BM cloud sync?

[@XRaym]

Thx you very much for this tutorial ! However there is still very frustrating bug on DaVinci Side, like sharing audio, because they don't have proxy, and because path is written in absolute, if I use the "Link" function, it will unlink the media for other user... Very frustrating. :(

[@jeffarballo1881]

Can you both be working on different timelines at the same time?

[@epiphanykreative]

Great video thank you! I am struggling so much with read write permissions 😭 any tips on how to fix this as it’s ruining my project currently

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks for watching. Are you having trouble understanding who has ownership of each bin? Or more of a file level permissions problem on the OS?

[@epiphanykreative]

@@CreativeVideoTips i had set the project to save to my time machine external hard drive, but the resolve didn’t allow the hard drive permissions, and i looked everywhere to try and change these, nothing. I was trying to save space on my MacBook pro, it seems you cannot have your projects externally, if i am wrong any information would be really appreciated thanks!

[@jossetishauser2040]

May ask what keyboard you have there?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Absolutely. This is the Keychron C2 - geni.us/keychron-c2 - I think it's a must to have a full size keyboard for editing video, because of the number pad. I go through keyboards every year or so but this one is really great, especially for the price. Highly recommend.

[@garretreed9709]

7:25 I’m confused. So are originals not needed anymore if they’re syncing via drop box proxies? I currently edit BRAW files into an ISO from an ATEM and collaborating with my team would be soooo nice!! One file for us ends up being 170+ gb each. So it adds up. Thankfully we use 4 files weekly and iso is another 200gb with graphics, audio and other recorded on atem

[@fernandotarte7550]

hi. where did you get the blue mic foam cover for the podmic???????

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Hey there - reporterstore.com

[@ShmupJunkie]

Watching this now as I’m working on a documentary that I want to collaborate with my partner doing the interviews internationally. Really excited for this vs the difficult previous method. But I ran into a problem immediately I didn’t expect. I can’t seem to sign up on their cloud site. I tried two different emails to create a new account. It never sends me the confirmation email. Not even to spam. So I can’t register. I’ll be calling them during business hours as I’m really excited to start using this.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

I would try to be patient, but I know the feeling of wanting to dive in right away. They are just starting to roll the servers out globally. Thanks so much for watching and please follow up here when the email confirmation comes.

[@francoisitey1296]

Hello, I am following you since your tips are very useful, however I have some problems with the dropbox, I cannot find the sync you are mentioning, the window which opens when I clic on the top right corner is not the same as yours. Could you make a video, speakeing a little bit slowlier and going step by step using Dropbox with Resolve 18, cloud collaboration? Thank you very much.

[@DustinHarrelson]

10/10 overview. Hahaha I want to do some collaboration projects now just bc it seems to work so well.

[@brandonrude]

Excellent as always!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks so much for watching Brandon!

[@TimotheosEnterprisesMedia]

Hey Chadwick.. have younused the cloud pid or a storage version with any of the ATEM Mini Extreme ISO products?

[@WesMann]

When my remote collaborator linked his proxies it caused the project on my side to use his proxy paths; this broke the proxy connection. I'm afraid that if I update the proxy path on my machine again it will just break the remote collaborator's proxy path. What am I missing here? Another quick question: Is the proper workflow to always start with the full resolution files in the project and link them too the proxies? Or can you start with the proxies and link them to the full res later?

[@micgivens23]

Excellent tute.

[@ZamoraChristian]

Wow this is amazing

[@CreativeVideoTips]

I think so too! ;) Thanks for watching.

[@satnemip]

Thanks for the amazing video, Chad! One problem I'm bumping into is I can't get "Project backups" to work on my Cloud-based Multi User projects. The other day I lost a lot of work because I didn't notice I hit Ripple Overwrite in the Speed Editor without noticing and so I kept working and "Live save" kept saving my work and the mistake in the process. The next day I noticed the issue but I had no way to roll back to a version before the "accident", as no backups were being made, even though the "Project backups" option was checked. To be clear, "Live save" is working fine. But sometimes one needs the ability to roll back to a previous version. I've tried using different "Project backup locations" in different drives, unchecking and checking the relevant checkbox in the user preferences but no luck :(

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks, yeah this is one of the biggest drawbacks to multiuser projects. The only way to get incremental backups is to turn off, even if just temporarily the multi user option. The devs say it’s because they don’t want to be interrupting other people’s flow in the same project. I wish it was a choice we can make though.

[@satnemip]

Yes, totally. And at least there should be a warning that it’s not making backups. All this time I thought I had multiple backup versions of all my projects. Anyways thanks a lot! Love your videos!

[@ontiveros7969]

Hi ! I don't get the difference to have or not to have the Cloud Pod just by sharing projects in your local network. For example, I wanted to access to my database from my 3 computers in my house local network but since it's not recommended to use a database in an external drive I think it's not the best solution and anyways I have to pay the cloud service for each database I want. Is that right or there is any solution ?

[@KeepItChristTV]

What about plugins? Will all collaborators have access to the plugins that are used in the project, as far as being able to edit parameters, make changes, add plugins, etc? I can't find the answer to this anywhere on the web.

[@johngormley1920]

Another great video.

[@hulkster2k3]

Can you tell me what monitor you are using for full screen output?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

For sure - this is my favorite computer monitor - I use 2 of them geni.us/LG-24

[@hulkster2k3]

@@CreativeVideoTips amazing thank you! 🙏🙏Are you just going clean feed or using a black magic ultra deck?

[@EasyyokeFilms]

My 83GB BlackMagic Raw files, generated a proxy of 2.4GB. That is still a little large for me to upload over the internet(although that is still a pretty good compression) in an area with very crappy internet speed. Is it possible to be able to lower the bitrate from 6MBps to maybe 3MBps.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Right now we are limited in proxy generator to 6mbps. However a couple gigs should upload easily in a couple hours even with a slow internet connection.

[@christopherswann304]

Is dropbox nexessary if both users already have the original media on each computer?

[@25mileswest86]

Was thinking kind of the same... in which case, why not just share and work on the project/timelines alone.? will need to re-watch, maybe I'm missing a beat and the answers in there already..?

[@jordanbeaujour4529]

Interesting.. Hey Chadwick I’m a little confused about the Dropbox because you still technically need point it to folder and then the remote editor still needs to to search for it so technically could I not just use my Personal Synology nas to host the proxies and sharing that with the remote editor ?

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Hi Jordan, I don't have experience with a synology nas specifically so I can't give any guidance there. Maybe I should get one though? Anyways, yes you are still doing an inital pointing of the sync folder - but here's where I think it would be different - Say you have a project folder with all of your assets... camera originals, photos, music, sound effects all in one folder. You can have the cloud store or pod sync that entire folder and then blackmagic device can be told to only send over the low bandwidth proxies of the video files. On the other side of the country the assistant can point their blackmagic device, or just a dropbox sync app folder to the same location and it will only pull down the proxies and the rest of the needed assets - but skip the full res original video clips. You basically avoid needing to manage the moving or extracting of proxy media. Other than that, yes they would work pretty much the same. But that is my understanding of a primary benefit of this new device.

[@jordanbeaujour4529]

That’s also another thing, why would you have your colorist grade the proxies? Since they are so tiny the second you make any adjustment the image would fall apart right ? Or is the store/pod doing a proxies/original swapping during this ?

[@jay4kk]

nice work!

[@CreativeVideoTips]

Thanks so much for watching Jason.