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Opening the Collaboration list shows all
the current project members
The top member is you, and you can change the name you use by editing the text field.
Additionally, you can click the icon to the left and choose a new color for yourself from the icons
in the pop-up menu below. All the badges that indicate who has a lock on which folders,
timelines, and shots are color-coded, so it’s a good idea for everyone to choose their own
custom color so you can tell who’s doing what.
There are eight custom colors for
collaborators to choose from
How Collaboration Works
At its simplest, collaborative workflow uses a “first come, first served” model to manage who
has can make changes to what. Essentially, the first collaborator to select a bin in the Media
Pool, open a timeline, or select a clip in the Fusion page or Color page gets a “lock” on that
item. Once an item is locked (indicated by a colored collaborator badge), other collaborators
can look at it, but they cannot make changes. This prevents versioning conflicts from occurring.
Bin and clip locks are released when a collaborator selects a different bin or timeline in the
Media or Edit pages, or a different clip in the Fusion page or Color page. At that point, the
changes that have been made to the previously locked item are “checked in” and made
available to all collaborators once they refresh their project (by clicking a circular refresh icon
that appears to the right of bins in the Media Pool or in the corner of the Edit page Viewer).
All changes that collaborators make are automatically saved to the project as they’re made, via
Live Save (which is always on in Collaborative mode), so no work will ever be lost as you
collaborate with your team. However, each collaborator gets to decide when they want to
update the bin, timeline, or clip they’re currently working on to see the changes made by
everyone else, in order to prevent a kaleidoscope of constant alterations to compositions and
grades from being a distraction while you’re working.
The following sections describe Bin and Timeline locking and Clip locking in more detail.
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