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From the course: DaVinci Resolve: How to Fix Common Image Problems

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How to move project settings into new databases

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- The project setting limitation of being unable to export or import a project setting after you've spent all of this time going through every single menu item in project settings and manipulating it and setting it exactly the way you need it set for the types of projects you're always working on, it kind of reduces the utility of those presets, right? So what can you do in order to get around that limitation? It's what I call project templates because what we can do is save off a DaVinci resolve project with all of those settings already set. We save them off as templates, reimport those projects into a new database and boom, away we go. So let's go ahead and give that a shot right now. Let's go ahead and make sure our 24 FPS client B is loaded up. So I'll load that up. I'll come here to master settings and yeah, so it's 1080P project all the way across at 24 frames per second. So let's imagine that the settings that we've gone through and we've changed all of these settings and we want to be able to reuse this for years potentially. Well, what we can do now is we've got this untitled project. Let's go ahead and hit save. And I'm going to call this template 24 FPS, 1920 by 1080. And I'm going to press save. Now I'm going to come down and open up my project manager. Right-click and export project. And I'm going to save this on my desktop. And I'm going to leave the name of the project. We'll save that. Close, Shift + nine, come back to our presets. Now let's load up our 20 FPS UHD project. Double check our settings real quick. Yep. UHD in the timeline. 1080P as video monitoring. I'll close that out. Now that we've updated this template, I need to save this as a different project. Save project as template 25 FPS UHD, hit save. There we go. Now let's do one more thing here, just to prove how this is going to work. What I want to do is now delete these two settings that we created for our two different clients. I'm going to delete that configuration. I'm going to delete this configuration. All right. So now we're back to the defaults. I'll load up the system config so we get rid of this UHD resolution. (clicking) Now, before I quit out of this project, I am going to want to export this project. And it's going to be my 25 FPS UHD project. Save it in the same place on the desktop that I saved the previous one. Now, if we quit out and we take a look I've got two different DRPs, DaVinci resolve project files. One is my 24 frames per second, 1920 by 1080. The second one is my 25 FPS UHD. So, how do we make use of these? Let's go ahead and relaunch DaVinci resolve. Now, when you create a new database, you're not going to have any of these new projects in there. So let's go ahead and mimic that by deleting these. This is good practice anyway, how to do all these things. I'm just right-clicking and choosing delete. All right. So now what we want to do is pull these template projects in so that we can then save them as presets again and then reuse them in this entire database. So I'm going to click and drag. There's our first template. It automatically launches us in, 24 FPS HD, Shift + nine. I am now going to save this as my new 24 FPS HD template. (clicking) I'll come back into my project manager, right-click, import project. And now I'm going to pull in my 25 FPS UHD template. Open up that project. Watch what happens when I open up my project settings UHD, 25 frames per second, HD monitoring. Background caching. Remember one second. That's what we had set it for. Now, I'm going to come into presets and save this as 25 FPS UHD, click Okay. And now I can move between these different presets that I've saved off as templates in any database that I want. So the concept here is, as you configure different presets for different clients, you do it in an empty project, Save that empty project out, name it appropriately, collect them all into a single folder. All of these DRPs in a spot on your hard drive where you'll know to find them. And then whenever you need them, you just pull up that template project, save it off as a preset. And now in that database, you can switch between your main different presets whenever you want. It's a workaround. It's a little bit of a clutch, but if you've done lots of customizations within your project settings, and you find that you're always forgetting to make little tweaks and changes that you do from project to project, project templates are the way you work around it in DaVinci resolve until one day, maybe eventually they'll give us a export and import button on these presets. Until then, this is the workaround.

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Contents

• Introduction Introduction
  • What are some solutions to everyday Resolve problems? 4m 16s
  • About this series 3m 5s
  • Using the exercise files 3m 22s
• 1. Automatic Behaviors That Speed Up Working in DaVinci Resolve 1. Automatic Behaviors That Speed Up Working in DaVinci Resolve
  • Master project setting presets 4m 55s
  • How to move project settings into new databases 6m 21s
  • (Locked) How to move user preferences to a new computer 4m 31s
  • (Locked) Keyboard customizations: Which default keyboard should you use? 4m 14s
  • (Locked) Make sure Resolve doesn't delete your LUTs when reinstalling 3m 54s
  • (Locked) How do I rename video clips based on scene, shot, and take? 6m 21s
  • (Locked) Where can I use metadata variables? 3m 37s
  • (Locked) Quickly find clips in your timeline based on metadata 5m 49s
  • (Locked) Export a text file of Offline Media to send to your client 3m 42s
  • (Locked) Export recently modified color graded shots for delivery 5m 23s
  • (Locked) Image scaling: Mixing and matching frame sizes 6m 4s
  • (Locked) Image scaling: External dual monitoring HD and UHD images 5m 16s
  • (Locked) Why contrast control rolls off your highlights and shadows 2m 46s
  • (Locked) Find your timelines in the Media Pool 3m 4s
  • (Locked) Camera Raw: The workflow 1m 7s
  • (Locked) Camera Raw: Setting default behaviors 4m 24s
  • (Locked) Camera Raw: Overriding project-level settings 1m 58s
  • (Locked) Camera Raw: On set tips and tricks 1m 28s
  • (Locked) Dynamic zoom: Automated pan and scan 2m 12s
  • (Locked) Tracking objects: Introduction to the Cloud Tracker 4m 50s
  • (Locked) Tracking objects: Advanced Cloud Tracker techniques 4m 24s
  • (Locked) Tracking objects: Introduction to point-based tracking 2m 41s
  • (Locked) Tracking objects: Clip vs. frame adjustments 5m 13s
  • (Locked) Tracking objects: Power window interactions 3m 9s
  • (Locked) Magic mask: An introduction 9m 13s
• 2. An Introduction to Resolve Color Management (RCM) 2. An Introduction to Resolve Color Management (RCM)
  • (Locked) What is Resolve color management (RCM)? 3m 36s
  • (Locked) Getting started with RCM the easy way 3m 22s
  • (Locked) Tagging your footage for Resolve color management 5m 25s
  • (Locked) RCM and raw footage: How does it work? 5m 4s
  • (Locked) RCM: Warnings and gotchas 2m 47s
• 3. Common Problems, Multiple Solutions 3. Common Problems, Multiple Solutions
  • (Locked) Speed changes: One click and done 2m 22s
  • (Locked) Speed changes: Fit to Fill 1m 52s
  • (Locked) Speed changes: Variable speed, part 1 4m 9s
  • (Locked) Speed changes: Variable speed, part 2 2m 19s
  • (Locked) Speed changes: Adding motion estimation 7m 31s
  • (Locked) Saturation: Using sat and lum curves 6m 29s
  • (Locked) Saturation: Using custom curves 5m 5s
  • (Locked) Saturation: Using the Color Warper 7m 35s
  • (Locked) Saturation: Advanced Color Warper techniques 5m 32s
  • (Locked) Saturation: Understanding the HDR palette 7m 9s
  • (Locked) Saturation: Targeted natural saturation adjustments 6m 11s
  • (Locked) Highlights and shadows: The brightness container 7m 16s
  • (Locked) Highlights and shadows: Primary wheels 3m 7s
  • (Locked) Highlights and shadows: Operations 2m 59s
  • (Locked) Highlights and shadows: Custom curves 4m 24s
  • (Locked) Highlights and shadows: HDR wheels 3m 38s
  • (Locked) Highlights, shadows, and saturation: Color managed workflows 9m 38s
• Conclusion Conclusion
  • (Locked) Additional resources and goodbye 3m 55s

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