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1. Welcome to the class: Hello guys. My name is showing you
is and I am going to be your instructor in this
DaVinci Resolve goes, I'm a videographer,
photographer. We get it off a toilet, and a little bit of
graphic designer. And I've been in this creative business
for almost five years. So that's the super
basic stuff about me. Now, let's discuss what we are going to learn
in this course. In this course we are
going to discuss about some basic stuff in DaVinci Resolve in these things is actually going to help. And it's also going
to make your workflow so much efficient than how it is right now or how it is going to be if you keep
the way you are doing it. So attending this course will help you to
be more efficient, more smoothly, smoother,
and your workflow. Anyway, in this course,
we are going to discuss about how to create
a database and DaVinci Resolve and what
is a database in general. And having that idea
will actually help you to understand the concept of
database and double-check. And I'll also discuss about
how to create a database and have to navigate in between
projects in a database. So you don't have to
go and close, open, close copy paste and all
those So long stuff. And you could easily
switch in between with the help of a dog,
toggled down button. And then I'll also
show you how to export DaVinci
Resolve project file with and without media files, and also have to import
and have to import. We saw project file, archive file with
and without media. So these are gonna be the stuff that we're going
to discuss in this video. And these are gonna be some basic stuff and this is going to feel
like some nerdy stuff. But actually this is
so useful when it comes to your productivity
and your efficiencies. So I recommend you to complete this course and having the knowledge that
is going to help you, definitely going to help you in your long run with
DaVinci Resolve. So these are going to be the things that we're
going to discuss. That was the introduction that was all about me
and about the code. And we will see in the first official class
in the next video. Until then, bye, bye. Thank you.
2. What is a Database?: Hi all, Welcome to the
first video in this course. So in this video we
are going to discuss what is a database in general. And we are going to discuss
how Editor database works or how you use a
database in the winter resort. So what is databases? A database is a place later for usually you compare
it to a container where you store your data in an organized manner
so that you could come anytime and you can actually whatever the
data that you want, because you stored in an
organized manner so that you do not have to search
through all the data. You just have to
come there and you just want to look
for the one that you want and you could
find it easily because you store it in an
organized manner and you find the one you want to
reuse and you just take that data and then you reuse it or make a
change to that data. So a database is, in general, this is the
concept of database where you, where you actually
assemble all data that you want to come under a
particular database. And then whenever you
want to reuse one, you could actually reuse easily because you
know how it's stored. And you could find
the right one. You don't have to go
through every data. You could actually
come there and you could find the data
that you want and then reuse it or
make it change or transfer it or change it into a different database or
something like that. So basically this is database. In a practical scenario, what a database is actually, let's compare it to a library. A library with a lot of books is actually the right
example for a database. Because in a library used for all the books that you want, node without, you don't
just store all the data. The books in a library
without an order, use. Actually store all the
books with the laundry or sections or some
categories or submit some parameters so that
anyone could come there and anyone could actually find
the book that they want. And then they could use, or they could refereed, or they could actually
take their home. It will be easy for them
to find because maybe, let's say the action is
going to be in a full action or lead to novel
is going to be in a section or the theory, so Thesis, all those kind of technical stuff is going
to be in another section. You know, whenever you comes to a library where you want to look and you go to that place and you find the
book that you want, and then you easily go back
whatever you're doing. Instead of, let's say four, if it wasn't an organized
way of a library, you have to go through
all the books until you find the real book
that you want. So it is actually in practical, I don't know if
that would exist. What I mean, he's
just not practical and it is not efficient. So that database
is created so that you could store the data or
the books in that manner. So when it comes to
DaVinci Resolve, a database works
exactly like this. A database is a container
that for that contains all the data regarding a video
file that you're editing, Let's say the edits or
the color grading data. Everything database
holds all those kinds of information inside that. All the progress
that you've made, all the edits that you've made, and whenever you want to reuse any date or whenever
you want to reopen it, you could actually come there, could actually go directly
to the one that you want to open and then
you can reuse it. Let me demonstrate it
with help of melanoma. Okay, let's say this
is your database. So in database, you store your data in
an organized manner, in this case, alphabetically. Then inside a, you store
the data related to E inside that in an
organized manner. This is how the organized method of storing your
data in a database. But in this case, let's say we are creating
a YouTube video or let's say we are applying the stem into database,
into DaVinci Resolve. When it comes to database. Let's take this, Let's
delete it. Okay? Let's say you are a
videographer or filmmaker. Let's say you have different
things that you're doing on. So Let's say you are a YouTuber and you
do weddings stuff, you do traveling videos and all, and a bunch of other stuff. So in this case, you don't want to save
all the project files, so you don't have to
do all the editing the local database. Because whenever
you want to reuse a YouTube video or a wedding
video or traveling video, you would have to go
through all the data. All the video files are all the project
files that you have created in this saving, in this way, like what
I have shown you here, by typing it into YouTube
or wedding and travel, by creating a database dedicated to each of the
stuff that you're doing, you can actually come
to different places. Let's say you come to your
database of YouTube and you open it and you could
actually create your low one. Let's say this is your logo one. Or similarly, you could
actually make vlog number two, number three, number
four, et cetera. So that whenever you want to reuse data or an
edit or anything, you can actually easily come to this database
and you could actually grab the project file or the project settings or
whatever you want to reuse. And then you can
easily reuse it. You don't have to go through
all the project files are all the database. It could easily do
that by just going to the dedicated database
created for ease projects. That was database
Da Vinci result in general and how we use them. In the next video, we'll
show you how to create a database and have to switch in between
projects and all those stuff in the
upcoming videos. Thank you.
3. How to create a Database in DaVinci Resolve?: I'm back. I hope you guys have a
decent understanding of what a database is in general
and how a database works, and what are the
advantages of using a database and all
those kind of things. The signing, that
thing is going to help you to understand why you
are going to make it. It varies in how we
are going to use it. I recommend you to
understand what a database is and how database works and all
those kind of stuff from the previous
video, if you have. So in this video we are going
to dive into a database, can hold any kind of files, let's say editing progress
of the project settings. The backup of the project's
database didn't include, it can't hold any kind of media, so keep that in mind. A database can have actual media or video
or audio or anything, but it can hold the
project settings, the grades, the notary,
the project backup, and all those kinds of data related things,
but not the media. So that's something that
you need to keep in mind. So this is gonna be the interface that
you're going to treat. Get treated when you
open them in zero. So for the first time. So in order for you
to see the database, you had to click here. And you click here,
you do is actually create multiple projects here. And then it's gonna be
a hundreds of projects. And then when you want to
reuse or when you have to revisit the video or read something, there's
gonna be a mess. That's why we need
to use database. So in order for you to
create the database, what you have to do is actually click on this thing called
Add project library. So I'm going to click on
that ad project library. Now, you could name your
database what it is going to be. The name that whatever you put the name here is
going to appear here. I'm going to put
this out called, let's say online demo. It doesn't make any sense. Idle. After you name it, you have to allocate
a location for that database to get stored
inside your computer. Or let's say you connect it to a hard drive or
wherever into a story. So I'm going to save
it in my desktop. So in this top, I'm going to create a new file. I could always
create a new file. You need to do this, okay? So you need to do
create a new file, let's say data base,
demo, demo, demo. And then you could actually say let this folder and
click on Select Folder. But I have kind of different
mythology of working. I think it's more efficient way. What do you have to
do is actually go inside that folder and
create a bunch of folders. You could name this video, then you could name this audio, and so on. Okay. Sorry, sorry. You could create a
folder called Odeo. You could create. Now, you could create a
folder called therapist. What is the advantage of
using this kind of a mother rather than just
selecting Free folder, is that by selecting or by
using this method you could actually import or you can move your videos to satisfy
your audience to this file. Let's say you have another
folder called overlays or SFA eggs or VFX or whatever. You could actually organize
all of them under, is folded so that whenever
you start editing, it will be easy for you to edit because you
already know the locations and you don't have to
wander around your stories because you already know
it's inside or it's near, it's up close to
your project file. Maybe this is your project name. You already know it's inside the same folder
as your database, so it will make your
workflow so easy. So I think this is actually
one of my workflows. But you could also create a
files anywhere in your desk, anywhere near stories
and then select that as your data's database. Okay, now here I'm
going to select this database has
my database folder and I'm going to
click on Create. And now I will have
a database here. Okay? So this is the
database we created. Now, sorry, this is the
database that we created. We have created a new database, or you have to do is click on our project name and
assign the location and then select the
folder and create or use the method that I've shown you by creating a folder. And then inside that for the specific locations or
video, audio and other stuffs. And along with that dedicated
folder for your database. And then it will
be easy for you to navigate and workflow
will be so easy. So here you have another
function called Connect. What is connection? Is connected? You can name it exactly
like we create a database. How I showed you. So you could name here,
it will appear here. But instead of you
creating a new file, Let's say you have already
created the database previously and you somehow removed it or
disconnected, okay? So whenever you
want to remove it, you right-click and remove. It will say to disconnect you. Let's say some times previous you have
disconnected some database. You want to reconnect it, then name here, It's
gonna be a here. And then browse the
database location that you previously assigned to
whatever the database was, and then click on Connect and
then the database will come and the products inside
that will be rewarded, ie, if the projects are, the project file is still
there in that file. So that's what connectors
and that's how you create a database
in DaVinci Resolve. The next video, I'll
show you what is dynamic switching and have
to enable dynamic switching. Okay, So until then, keep grinding and
have a nice day.
4. Switch in between projects- Dynamic Switching: Welcome back to this video. In the previous section we have, I have shown you have
to create a database and have to locate the folder and have
to create database. And how to connect the database and all
those kind of stuff. And in this video, I'm gonna show you
how to switch between projects inside a database. This feature that I'm
going to tell you, it's not going to work
in petri databases, but this is going to work inside our database in-between
the project files. So before that, I wanted to show you how
to create a new project. Just click on New
Project and name. Let's rename a demo. One. Demo. That's your phosphorus. That's easy. That is how
you create a new project. Let's create a
bunch of projects. So let's create a demoed to. Let's create one more. Let's say you want to
create one more thing. Three is going to
work perfectly. Demo. Three more, three. You have created 343. Predict fast, be, let's
say you are a YouTuber. You want to, you have this log, or you have a database
dedicated for vlog. And then you have to edit
in-between blocks are then, let's say you wanted to reuse
a file that you've used in your vlog number one, and now you are working
with numbers 100. Then it's gonna be
really hard for you to find that media that you have used and data flow one to switching between
because you have to scroll down till low one and then you have to
cope with the media and then you have to come back to the currently working on and
then you have to paste it. It's actually going to
take a long time as your project files number increases as the
number of profiling. This is gonna be
a Herculean task. And also, if you don't
know which is the logo, which is the project that the media that you
wants to work includes. You have to wander around all. So it's gonna be really hard. So let's so in that case, that is a really hard thing to work on and it is
actually going to make your work really hard. But what DaVinci Resolve enabled is that we have the three typical
dynamics reaching that works inside a database. And what it enables you is actually you could enable
dynamic switching. And then you could say like the folders that you want
to switch in between. And then you could easily
navigate in between. For in-between projects
that you want to switch. You don't wander around all the hundred blogs
or the 100 projects. Let's say you have
idea which files, which project files
contain the media as I do, you want to reuse. You have to select only
those files and you could actually switching
between those projects. So that's what Darwin's
theories of Annapolis us. So let's see how to do that. So to enable dynamics
within what you have to do, you have to right-click
on a project and click here on dynamic
project switching. And that will enable
the dynamics switching. Now what you have to do, let's say you want to open. This is the current working one. And let's say this
is a previous one. You want to fit some media
from this project file. I keep one thing
in your mind that these files are empty,
completely empty. But for the sake of
this explanation, I'm going to show it with this. So let's say you want to take
some projects from this. You know that the videos, including here or the
videos are inside here. So what you have to do, you just want to
set tick mark and Annapolis or assures you that that project files is
gonna switch in between. So this doesn't have
what you have to do. You have to open
the project file. And now you have a
drop-down button here. And clicking on this
drop-down button enables you to switching
between projects. And it is easy. And let's say this is the project that you're
working on right now. You want to import some
files from demo three. You come here, you come here, you just copy some files. Control C, and come back
to demo and Control V. That's it. That's how, that's how easy it is to switch in between projects using dynamic
setting rather than going, wonder, wandering around all
the project files and all. This is how you do it. Now, let me show you
with media example. Okay. I'm sorry. This database that
I've created earlier. So this file does contain
four footages lead lengthy. I want to okay. So these files are
in my timeline. Let's say I have to copy
this file to my new project. Let's say I'm working
on a new project. Working let's say
I have to switch in-between this or
let's say I have to copy some files from the
previous one to this one. What I have to do
conventionally have to go here and then
have to click on this and I have to wait
for it to open up. Then I have to copy it
and I have to go back again and then have to come
here and I have to pace it. So let's say you have to
do them multiple times. It's going to make
you really, really, really inefficient. Or let's say it's going
to make your diet, it's gonna, it's gonna lose
the floor of your work. Okay? So what you could
do using Dynamics, which is that you could
right-click on this and then enable dynamic
project switching. And then you could open this. Now, let's say you want
to copy this video, this video to your
currently working, but you have to do Control Copy and now go back to the working one and then Control V and
wallah, your file is here. So it is actually so easy to project in between or let's
say you want to take, you did at particular
edit in the last video, we just want to go here, look at your timeline, search through the edit. Let's say you're
working in color. You could go there. You could see the node
tree or actually you could do other stuff
to copy node tree. But I'm not going to discuss
about that in this video, but let's say you want to
copy this audio or video, or let say some overlays or some something that you want to reuse in this working folder only have to do is
actually click on this drop-down button and click on the file that
you want to copy. Just copy it, come back here. And then let the file
says here that easy. That's how you switch in between
projects using Dynamics, which in an academic switching
Annapolis you to switch between project files in a database that
you select, okay? Not between all the project
files inside a database, but in between the project
files that you want to switch, you could actually select the project file that you
want to switch in between. And then using this drop down, you could actually
switch in between. And that's how you use Dynamics. Project switching
in DaVinci Resolve. Thank you.
5. How to export a project?: Hey guys, welcome back to another video on
DaVinci Resolve. So in this video I'm
gonna show you how to export a project. Let's say you want to
export this project. Let's say you want to
export demo project. That file does
include some videos. So let's say you want to
handle where this project file to your colorist or
maybe some other editor. Let's say you this, you are working with
multiple editors. You want to hand it over at the exact thing that
you're going to use exporting this project. So what they had
to do, right-click and then click on
Export project. So what this is going to do is actually make a file called
demo in Bordeaux, DRP. And you could assign
where you want to say, and then you could save, and then that file
will be there. Let's save this in my desktop. Okay, I've saved it. Now, if I go to my
desktop, look at this. This is the file
that we have saved. So one thing that
we need to keep in mind about this thing called demo import DRP is
that demo input, DRP, gyrus old
project file doesn't include any media inside that. Okay. So let's say, as I said, this dot DLP only includes the project settings,
the project backers, and the video editing
that you have done, all the data regarding that, the information
regarding your workflow, but not the immediate
not the video, not the audio or
anything like that. So let's say the other editorial that we're working on wants
to work on this video. That editor do, does need to have that access to
the original media. If and only if he had that
access to that media, then only this demo in
board is going to work. So this is gonna
be a small file. Let's check for the properties. It is actually 43 KB. That means it does have only
have the inflammations, the project settings and
the project backup file. Again, no media files, anything like videos or
audio media or files, any kind of media files. Chest, the inflammations
of the edit, the backyard settings,
the project settings, the null trees and all
those kind of things. So this is going to only include those settings,
not the media. So keep that thing in your mind when you
export a project, when you want to share project to a fellow
editor or a colorist, or let's say your
friend who's going to edit or who's
going to work more. He or she should definitely have access to the
original media file in order for him to continue working on the project that
you have been working. So that's how you export a
project in DaVinci Resolve. Okay, so I hope that was helpful until we meet
in the next video. Have a good day.
6. Export a project with media- Archive: In the previous video, we have discussed how to export a project file in
diamond jewelry saw. And as I told you that, you can export adult ERB
file with a media file. But we could actually export a project wet media files inside so that it could be used to
work in between editors. Anyway, I'm going to
show you how to export your project files
with your media, whatever media you have
used inside the timeline. So for that, what
do you have to do? You have to click on the project
that you want to export. Right-click on the
project and then you have this option called
export project archive. Still. What disk file dot RTF file is DaVinci
Resolve archive file. Archive file is going to
save your entire project. The same as the project file, damages or project file. It will include all the project settings,
all the backups, and all the inflammation is regarding your
editing along with the original media that
you have used so that it will be easy for
you to transfer. It won't be easy for you to
transfer between your editors because it is going
to take a lot of storage depending on
the size of your media. But actually using don't DRA, you could actually
transfer yield medias in between editors and the
other editor or the, or the calories doesn't have to have that access to
the media because the array is going to include
the media inside that file. So what you have to do, as
I told us, I shown you, right-click, click on
Export project archive, then click on Save. And now a pop-up
button will show you to read some settings. It will ask you
what kind of files you want to store inside of it. Let's say you want to include all the media files
or videos or audios and every kind of
fires you could click here the Render cache. It will make easy. The Render cache is good, something that is going to
make it easy for you to have free-flow playback
inside your video. So keeping this will be
easy for the other one, or let yourself to
edit in-between because let's say you have this really low and
compute an order, low-end computers and mediocre
specification computer. And then you want to play
back a really huge file. Then this render caches going to actually help you to do that. And I will show you watered render caches and I have to use random guessing
the upcoming videos. But for this, that's all. That's all you want
to think about. So that you could click here to whether you want to
include the Render cache or let's say you want to
include the proximity. Proximity. Just like I said, I will make, or I'll have dedicated chapter for this
thing in this course. But for now, I think
most of people knows, if you don't know approximately
is actually something that mostly the way the
editors use to edit a video. And to have that, you know, that smooth playback, that smooth to get that complete FPS at
you want to work with, without any stutter or EMI stuck in between the timelines. So by proximity is actually, it will actually
decrease of file size, but it will not reduce
the quality of the video. So let's say you want
to work smoothly. You could actually
make a proxy media. Then that will actually make a free flow of playback
in your timeline. And all you have to
do is at the end, disabled the proxy
and then you could actually export
the video as the, the, the real quality. So let's say you want
to include or do. You don't want it to look
here and then next week. Okay. So since this file does have a lot of files and
these files are big, I'm going to click on Okay, because it's going
to take a long time. But what it is going to then, but what's going to happen is that there will be a
file called Don't ERA. That file will be bigger than the campaign media files because it does also
include some project files. And it will be saved wherever
you assign the story. And then you could
actually translate it in between your editors or your, your collaborators or whoever working with this
particular protein. So that's about how to
export a project with media. And I hope that was
useful for you. And until we meet again
in the next class. Have a good day. Thank you.
7. How to import any project file to DaVinci Resolve?: So welcome back again. And in this video, I'm going to show you
how to import a project. Let's say you are
a color grader, or let's say you are
going to work on another, a video that some other editor works on and you're going
to continue their work, have to import a project at dot ERP file or DRI
is gonna be the same, but I'm going to show
you with the DRP because it's gonna be easy. Because otherwise though DRA
is going to take some time to explore and and I
haven't saved it or DRE, I'm going to show you
the help of a door DRP phyla DaVinci
Resolve project file, but it will be the
same for the DRA also. So let's say you
want to continue working with some other editor. You're working with a project
with multiple editors, or you are a collaborator and you are getting
this project. This is how you're going
to get the product. You are going to get the
project in the form of sorry, the form of DRP file. What do you have to do to import that project is
actually right-click, click on Import Project and
go to the file location. And click on the project
that you want to import. Click here, open. Now, since there is already the demo project
here is going to rename it into copy
of demo project. And that's okay for now. Let's click on Okay. And now the project
is going to open. So this is a project, and this project does
have all the media inside that timeline or
inside that project, because that media is already existing in my
computer, in my storage. If you don't have the media
is not going to work. It will show you
media offline or you don't have the media
is going to be an error. So keep that thing
in your mind that if you want import or export at DOD ERP file and to continue
working on that file. Having that accessibility to the original media is crucial. It's important keep that in mind when you use it DRP file. Otherwise use a DRF file so
you don't have to worry. Only thing that
you have to worry is actually about
the stories that the door DRF file is
going to take if you have the storage to save that
and to translate that, it's easy, it's going
to work smoothly. So yeah, that's how you export. So that's how you import it.
8. Thank You Note: So guys, again, thank you for watching my Co is and sticking
to the end of this course. And I assure you, you're not going to regret it because having a
strong knowledge in database and prosaic,
importing and exporting. And also I'm switching
dynamic products between and all those kind of
things is actually going to make you a fast editor. And it's going to make your workflow efficient and faster, snappier rather than someone who doesn't have any idea
of what a database is. Someone who used local
database for all, all of his works. So I think this video
was useful for you. And I know it was pretty
nerdy stuff and we haven't discussed we haven't done
any practical stuff. I know that but having this knowledge is
really important. That's why we have to go through this anyway
in this course. That was said, we
have discussed still importing a project file and DaVinci Resolve
from how to create a database and having the knowledge of
what is a database. So there are gonna be upcoming courses and I'm going
to discuss have to backup your
projects will have to create proxies for
your videos for that smooth playback
and have to set the project settings and
all those kind of things in the next video and in the
next course actually, and there will be causes
continuing on this series, we will have a course
dedicated for Cut tab, Edit, Data, Fusion, fair
light, color and everything. So take my profile for the next or the continuing to
continue with this course. So thank you for sticking
for this course. And this is really important
stuff that you need to be giving importance if you want to start working with DaVinci, Resolve super important things. So thank you for sticking onto this end and I am joy juice. And until we meet on the
next course or class, thank you for sticking. Thank you so much. Bye bye.
Joyal Jose, Graphic designer, Video and Photographer
