r/davinciresolve

This is just a scenario I was thinking of ,I have just started learning to use this software [absolute beginner] and have no experience in dealing with any clients ,So what if your client paid you certain amount for a video they asked to make and you made it sent it but they didn't liked it so you refunded the money but afterwards you find out that the video was still being used without the editor's knowledge

I know this is a silly question but I want to know how do video editors watermark their video ?, like I think video is a very easily stealable thing so how do they protect it in such scenario

In google search , It showed that the editor sends a low res video with watermark video not the full quality but what if the client wants to see the video properly

Do editors use any specific platform for securing all this? Do they sign any contract? I want to know what would people do in such situation

Hey everyone,

I’m Daniel from DBSONICLabs.com . We run DaVinci Resolve Studio in a real post-production environment and use a Resolve Project Server with shared PostgreSQL project libraries.

One thing that always felt surprisingly fragile to us was the backup workflow for Resolve Project Server databases. Manual exports are fine for occasional use, but in a studio setup with multiple users, multiple libraries and daily project changes, I wanted something more reliable and less dependent on someone remembering to do it.

So we built a small and native macOS tool for exactly this workflow.

It can schedule automatic backups, work with multiple Resolve Project Server libraries, write backups to a selected target location, show backup history and give a clearer overview of when things were last backed up or changed.

The tool is already online, but I’m not posting this as a “please buy my software” thing. I’m genuinely interested in how other editors, colorists and post houses handle this today and wether such an app could be useful for them/you.

A few questions:

1. Are you using Resolve Project Server / PostgreSQL libraries?
2. Do you currently back them up manually, via scripts, NAS snapshots, pg_dump, cloud sync, or something else?
3. What would make a backup tool trustworthy enough for your workflow?
4. Would a simple GUI around scheduled Project Server backups be useful for your setup, or do you prefer script-based solutions?

Full disclosure: we developed a commercial tool in this area because we needed it ourselves. I’m mainly looking for real-world input and feedback from other Resolve users and studios.

Curious how you are solving this.
Greets from germany and happy backing-up :-) , Daniel

Hey there,

I need help on which plugins do I install for DaVinci resolve 18.6 ver

Well I downloaded the ver 18.6 cuz gemini recommended me tht I use tht on my pc with my specs.....

And I need plugins for tht ver, lemme know which plugins I install.

Hello! I'm considering on using DavinciResolve for first time, on Windows10. And, if technically possible and as last resort, SteamDeck. I like to watch older things on my 4:3 tv monitor. But the most easiest way to convert / watch them is "pillarboxed" (back bars on upper, lower side.) But I wish I could crop everything... The only other problem I'll be facing is to try to have a good eye on every scene - what to keep centered and what to move. Has anyone pan-&-scanned to 4:3 on DavinciResolve before? Does anyone have any advice?

After reading the docs and following tutorials I am still confused about the workflow in resolve.
I work mainly on 'art' style videos (not regular story or documentary styles) and in a very non-linear experimental way; I change footage in response to a new feel about the content, or in response to a musical score. I also continually adjust effects and edits, and I always run into problems, and sometimes even dead ends. I feel I'm missing something about the Resolve workflow.

E.g. Fusion
I'll bring in green-screen footage and want to immediately pull the key and add garbage mattes so I can visualise the resulting composite. So I make the green-screen footage into a Fusion Clip and do the keying work. I then go back to edit the key'd shots in the timeline with background clips when I discover the need to do a planar track on the background to match-move the keyed footage with it. I make a new Fusion Clip from the previous Fusion Clip and the background (nested).

This all has me going in and out of Fusion and creating nested Fusion clips. These eventually get problematic and overwhelming to manage and awkward to tweak as any changes have a compounding effect on other elements. I even start to get issues with keyed areas breaking down (often white corrupted patches) etc. I also get stuck sometimes where I can't do what I want and end up having to reset and rebuild the Fusion work - this time with all the current clips in the right places...

When I want to use Color tools for the key'd shots to fit the background I can no longer do it in the Color tools as the clips to color are nested in Fusion etc - I have to use Fusion nodes for color instead which are different (and not so comprehensive).

Am I simply doing the workflow wrong? Or is there a better way?

p.s. I have found that if I don't 'wrap' some clips in Fusion they can easily fall apart when teh compositing becomes more complex.

I recently lost access to Adobe After Effects and was creating something of the kind in this video and am trying to figure out how to recreate it in Davinci, but I have very little scripting experience and Davinci's node-based UI is wildly different so I am struggling. I understand this is an incredibly involved question so I understand if no one has the time to answer (or if this is not the forum for it) but any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Edit to add: I'm using Mac (OS Sequoia), Free Resolve ver. 21

All the color grading videos I seen are only for Apple log and I want a color grade for my Google pixel 10 using the blackmagic camera app

Hi all, I have a video that needs to be 1080x1920 with 0.370 zoom, but when i want to zoom in on a portion of the video, it fills up more of the screen. example pictures below. is there a way to zoom in without using the actual XY zoom thing? i also used the dynamic zoom which didn't work for me, i need it to be zoomed in from the start and stay zoomed in for a few seconds.

the 0.370 zoom i want the whole vid to be:

https://preview.redd.it/xsfk4284qabh1.png?width=248&format=png&auto=webp&s=9eca33d03df2a048caf9ea5288fd7c513329e6b2

the zoom it turns into when i zoom in on my teammate:

https://preview.redd.it/krg1wu67qabh1.png?width=239&format=png&auto=webp&s=27c32ec7459f8f35c8830c42e77b2bd1989bfdb1

Have you watched Predator - the movie ? How to create Invisible Effect in Davinci Resolve 21 is live now. I am glad I helped :)