All About Resolve Projects - How To Save, Export, and Manage

Hello. I have received a project file which was exported with the latest free version of Davinci Resolve. I am unable to import the project file with my Studio version 18.1.2. First I thought maybe the different version is the issue, but the projectfile itself is only 80kb which seems to be not a normal size it's too small it should be 1+ MB. Do you have any idea what could be the issue? Thanks a lot.

so all these many gigs of render files taking up tons of space on my computer.... can i trash those or do i need to archive them on a separate drive to keep forever?

Hi Casey. I like very much your videos, I've learned a lot from them. I have a question for you, if you be so kind to enlighten me. I use to manage all my media manually and set it in folders of source files and rendered files. However, I'm scared that i could loose part of the information of the davinci projects once I have finished the work and i need to move it out of my computer's hard disk drive. What do you think could be the best procedure to keep safe all the data for historical storage, in case I need to use it in the future? Thanks in advance.

That was EXTREMELY HELPFUL thank you so much. This program is very strange so different from Premiere.

Very useful, thank you. I hate how Resolves handles projects, so frustrating

People go crazy explain how backing up and restoring works - but I couldn’t find simpler video then this - even 3 minutes video is more confusing then what you shared in 6 minutes. Crazy ❤️‍🔥

I've got projects that I no longer want or need to see. can I remove them from my project managerr?

How do you save different versions of a project? V1, V2 etc. or Title france, title spain, title uk. My Premiere
Projects just require a name change save as and you’re good to go.

Thanks great video.

Everytime I save a project, I see the project name in the final clip. Is there a way to remove it?

Hi Casey - thanks for this. It makes more sense now! I've updated from 17 to 18 without archiving those projects from 17 (was still getting my head around it). I can't seem to find those projects I created when on 17 as they don't appear in my database. Any thoughts?

Thanx!

Great video. I've been using this app for a while now. Can I make folders in the Project Manager and drag old projects into the new folders to clean things up? It's getting messy in there. Edit: Never mind. I did it, checked it, and it works. Lots of organizing to do now.

There is one major issue with this system. If you have a lot of projects on different harddrives that are constantly swapped between multiple Workstations and you need to quickly send your current working project to another editor it really gets complicated to handle.

Thank Casey!

How do you delete a project? Ive looked all over!

For some reason, I am unable to add clips to a project I have already exported. Why am I being so dumb about this? Please help.

Hi Casey, Another very informative video. I'm working on a rather long short and would like to separate and store each scene by itself to be added back to the timeline in proper sequence when all scenes are complete. What would be the best procedure to do that?

Really like your clear way of explanation and wonderful tone and friendliness. And I learned what I needed. Thank you.

Love your videos.
I'm using DR18 and I can't find "New Database". How I can move my DB to a different drive?

i need serious help. i moved a folder and npow every project has media offline. i cannot figure it out and am going to loose my mind after messing with this all day. someone please help. i can stream for you in discord to show

So... I have watched several videos about archiving projects and no one is addressing what to do after archiving! I want to get old projects and media off my laptop hard drive and recover disk space. Is there a good way to do this so that I don't see archived projects that no longer reside on my laptop drive unless I want to restore? And more importantly delete the cached files and media files for that project off the drive to recover space. How about a video about that?

Ok cool, but here's the thing. If I export the project to a folder for backup... once I open that project file and make changes, and then save, will it update that exported project file? Or save to the one in the original project file database location? This is crucial cuz what If im working on my mac studio at the office but wanna go finish up at home, with the project on a drive.

But how tf do i change it to a different file type so I can put it onto social media's, i have watched so many videos and none of them mention it.

This method has worked fine...until now - When checking the archive copy I'm getting the old "Media Offline" on a bunch of the footage - some appears, some doesn't, yet the files are in place, and its a drive I've used to archive before, so its a mystery why it is doing this...any ideas?

super thanx tutor

Hi, new to resolve from PP, first project, are my media files now copied to the database also, can I delete them from my desktop

this is what I wanted, thank you.

So what if the project is too long and you want to cut it in half? how do you do that without losing all of the project? Example. I have an hour long video, I want to cut it in half. Is there a way to copy my clips/audio from where ive split it or do I have to reupload the whole hour long video into davinci?

Amazing! Complete and quick (the way is should be)

As usual very easy to understand and very useful content ! Thank you. A suggestion : it would be nice to have a quick guide about, what to do concretely, to keep organised medias/projects/database... Cause database is different from medias. So concretely, as a user, how am i supposed to manage all this ? When a project is finished, when my computer hard drive is almost full, what is the clean way of saving my medias/projects on another hard drive, without breaking the link database/medias... 🙂 Thank you !

hi, i really enjoyed your video
it was so informative :)

im really afraid about makinga mistake and taking a risk of losing my data in the future
so, i would love to go over with u for a few min (zoom or whatsup call) if possible :)

This was perfect explanation! Thanks.

The "save as" function is a direct ticket to a surprise heart attack

You saved my bacon AGAIN... I upgraded my computer, and I thought I lost everything (insert PANIC)...Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!

How do I completely delete a project?

Super helpful! Coming from Premiere I'm very much lost when it comes to the unique systems of Davinci!

I exported a project to a folder on my computer but when I try to drag the media to DaVinci Resolve it show the cancel symbol. Why is it doing that? Why won't it let me drag files and drop them into a project?

so i finished editing a video but after i exported it it just became a thing that takes me to davinci is there a way i can make it like a obs recording where i can watch it anytime?

When a timeline .drt file along with the media is imported from one computer to another, does Davinci make copy and place it somewhere on the database? I can't find the .drt files where the database is. I am guessing Davinci just copies the .drt and then the .drt can be deleted.

How do I delete specific videos I created in DaVinci? I don't want to delete all the cache files bc I'm still working on some of those videos and I need to free up some space to keep editing. Unlike you said here "there won't be a problem" well, the C: is almost full so yeah, I need to delete very specific videos I have already backed up. Anyone knows how to do this?

Thank you Casey!

Perfect tutorial, I just bought it and tNice tutorials helps heaps

The problem with This style of data bases is you can NEVER EVER delete any ASSETS as if you do go back you get the dreaded RED Clip 'Media Off Line'. There ain't no way to recover.

I just wanna give you a huge thanks for you cause tNice tutorials is the most helpful video I've had in a wNice tutorialle and it really helped so keep up the

Thanks!

how the fuck do you delete a bloody project

Most times I see people creating large databases for all projects. Is there any reason why creating a database per client or even per project would not be recommended?