User Manual

Introduction to Collaborative Workflow
Multi-user collaborative workflow allows simultaneous editing, compositing, grading, and Media
Pool clip management by multiple people within a single project that has been enabled for
collaboration. Collaboration takes three different forms:
 Using bin locking, multiple editors can simultaneously edit different timelines in
different bins of the same project, while assistant editors can reorganize clips and edit
the metadata in other bins within the same project. Bins are automatically locked when
selected by a particular user and unlocked when deselected by that same user, or they
can be manually set to be either locked or unlocked as circumstances require.
 Using clip locking, multiple colorists and compositing artists can work together in the
same timeline, in either the Color page or Fusion page, without fear of overwriting one
another’s work. A clip is locked automatically when a user selects that clip to work on,
and is unlocked (with the work checked in) when that same user selects a different clip.
Clip locking in the Fusion page is maintained separately from clip locking on the Color
page, so a compositing artist and colorist can work together on the same shot.
 One editor, one compositing artist, and one colorist can work together on the same clip
in the same Timeline of the same project without conflict.
Overall, working in DaVinci Resolve in Collaborative Workflow mode is identical to working in
non-collaborative mode. However, there are a few collaborative capabilities that are worth
knowing about.
Collaborative Render Cache Support
Each collaborator on a project can have individualized render cache settings on their machine,
enabling everyone to cache to a format that their workstation can best handle and that meets
their needs.
Collaborative Support for Individual Monitoring
If necessary, each collaborator on a project can override the output and monitoring settings of a
project on their particular workstation. When a project is set to use Collaborative Workflow, a
“Use Local Overrides” checkbox appears in the Video Monitoring group of the Project Settings
that lets you choose how to monitor on your particular workstation.
Collaborative Marker, Flag, and Clip Color Support
Collaborative workflow supports the modification of markers, flags, clip metadata, and clip color
from the Color page. Additionally, FrameIO comment markers are supported by
collaborative workflow.
Read Only Mode
Users can load collaborative projects in Read Only Mode.
Collaborative Support for HDR
Starting with DaVinci Resolve 16, there is support for Dolby Vision and HDR10+ in collaborative
workflows.
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