All language subtitles for 1. Starting a new database and project file Project Manager Kol

In this lesson, I'm

going to be talking about project files
and databases.

If you're coming from another program
like Final Cut or Premiere Pro,

then you know what a project file is.

But you may not know what a database is

and how it can be beneficial
to your editing workflow.

Well, don't worry, because in this lesson,
I'm going to be explaining all of this.

Now, this might not be the most exciting
part of this course, but it's very,

very important to understand all of this
so that you'll always know

how to set up your projects in a way
that works best with your workflow.

Okay, so a project file
is exactly what it sounds like.

It's just a file that you can open
to access your project

and continuously save changes
to your project on that one file.

Now, in Da Vinci,

if we want to make a new project file,
you need to first select a database.

To create it in a database
is essentially just an enclosing folder

that can hold tons of project
files, backups of those project files,

and all of the other information
needed to link media to your project

and get them going.

Now, a major reason
that databases were created

was so that you can access the same asset
libraries across all of the projects

within your database.

That might sound a bit confusing,
I understand,

but let me give you an example of how
this can be useful.

So let's say you make YouTube videos
and you constantly use the same assets

for all those types of videos, an intro
animation, sound effects graphics,

the stuff that stays constant
between project to project.

It's in your best interest

to make every new YouTube project file
within the same database.

That way, the asset libraries
you've developed from your previous

project files will translate over
to your new project file,

and you'll be ready to start editing
right away

without having to import all those assets
each time.

Now, the asset libraries

I'm specifically talking about
are the power bins and power grids.

But that's not important
for you to understand right now.

Each of those features
has an in-depth video

explaining
how they work later on in this course.

Now, it's totally okay if you don't fully
understand this right now.

Let's jump into Da Vinci and I'll walk
you guys through exactly what I'm

talking about.

So I'm just going to open DaVinci Resolve

and we are presented with this window
which is opened up in my other monitor.

This is the first window that you're going
to see when you're opening Da Vinci.

Now, you might not see
this row on the left here,

and that's
because this button is not active.

So you'll probably be presented with this
and it's

just going to have untitled project.

And in the bottom right,
we can see that we have three buttons.

We have new project
to make, a new project, new folder.

We can create folders
within this space as well, and then we can

also just click open to open up projects
that are selected in here.

Now these right here are two project
files.

Now, the databases
that I was talking about before,

those can be visible by clicking
on this little button right here

that will show us
all the databases to the left.

Now, right now, you guys are seeing all
the databases that I've created so far.

That are currently linked to my computer
because you can link and unlink databases,

which is not that important right now.

But we can see all of my databases
here to the left.

You will probably only have

one database here,
which is going to be your local database.

Now, the local database is the one
that lives on your computer,

and it's the default database
that opens up within Da Vinci.

Now, in this local database,
you can see a bunch of different projects

that I worked on in this database.

Now, up here in the top right,
we have two different viewing options.

Right now.

We're in the icon view,

but we can select the list
view to see everything in a list.

We also have the option to search

for specific project files
within your database up here.

This could be handy if you have tons
of project files within one database.

But in this case, we don't have that many,
so we don't have to search for anything.

Now, like I said before, a database
shouldn't be seen as a project file.

A database is essentially a main

folder that holds several other folders
that contain information.

So if I go to this database here,
the local one, I can right click on it,

reveal it in my finder,
and it's brought up right here.

We can see it's highlighted
this folder right here.

If we click into it,
we have resolved projects

and if we click into here,
we have some more folders.

So if you go into users,
we go into guest projects,

we can see all of these
different projects in here.

Now, we don't actually

have the project files
within the database yet

because those are DRP files,
DaVinci Resolve Project files.

We just have these dot DB database files
within these folders here.

We also have a bunch of other stuff
in these folders that is not important.

You're not going to have to know
what it is,

but that is essentially
what a database is.

It's just an enclosing folder
that contains a bunch of other folders and

a bunch of data about the project files
within that database

and all the information
that it needs to link the project

files to the media
for all of those projects.

Now, one important thing to keep in mind
is that the database

doesn't actually contain
any of the media within your project.

It just contains information
on where to go to find the media

that is found within your project files.

So knowing this, it's important for me
to keep my database in the same place

as all of my other media.

So that way everything is in one place.

So when I'm plugging in my hard drive
and I'm opening up my database

and my project files,
everything is in the same place.

I don't have to look for it
in other drives and stuff.

I like to always structure
my projects in this way

because then I don't have to deal
with having unlinked files later on

and trying to search for media
on different drives and stuff like that.

So the way that I like to personally work
with individual resolve

is to create a new database
for every new project that I'm working on.

So let me show you how I would do that.

So in my finder here, we can see
this is the project

I recently shot with one
plus it was completely shot on a phone

and I have the folder structure right
here.

I have video project files and photos.

Now, within project files,
I don't have anything but in here I would

create a new folder for every program
that I'm using within this project.

So if I'm using after Effects, I would
create a new folder for After Effects.

If I'm using Premiere Premiere

and for DaVinci, I'll create
a new folder here called A Da Vinci.

So now that we've created that new folder
within our project files,

let's go back into our project manager
here in Da Vinci.

And in the bottom left corner,
we can select new database.

Now what we can do is create a new
database within this Da Vinci folder.

So let's give it a name first.

We'll call it one Plus.

And one thing to keep in
mind is we can't make spaces in here.

If I press the spacebar,
it doesn't do anything.

So you got to use underscores
and we'll call this one example,

and then we get to choose the location
we want to save the database to.

So let's click browse

and let's locate
the new folder that we just created.

So that's going to be in one place.

Phone project, project Files, Da Vinci
And we're going to click Open

and we're going to click Create.

Now it's going to take a second.

It's going to create that
new database over here.

And now within this database,
we are able to create a new project.

Now, let's go into the finder window here.

Let's open up
Da Vinci and see what it made.

So it made a Resolve Project's folder.

And in here

we have those same folders that I showed
you guys before in the local database.

It's not important
for you guys to understand

what's going on within the database
folder here.

All you need to know
is that it's organized in a way

so that the database can locate
all the media and all the assets,

everything within the project files
to make everything work.

So now that we're in this new database,
let's create a new project.

So let's hit a new project,
and we're given this little window here

and let's give it a name.

So we'll call this one plus

and hit enter.

And once we've done that, we are presented

with the court
page here in Da Vinci Resolve.

So this is the Da Vinci resolve interface
with no media in it.

Now, if we ever want to go back
to that project manager window,

we can simply go down here
to this little house icon down here

or we can press shift one,
which is the shortcut for that.

And we are presented
with the project manager here.

It's important to know
that you can access the project manager

at any time because you can go back in
here, create new projects.

You can simply just click new project,
create something completely different,

and you can also create new databases

cycle between different databases.

And you know, this is where you see
all of your different projects.

Now, you probably noticing
that some of my databases

have this little triangle
to the right of them,

and that basically means that Da Vinci
can't access those databases right now.

And that's simply
because those databases were created on

external hard drives, which my computer
is not connected to right now.

And that's totally fine.

I know that if I want to access
any of those databases, I'm

going to have to plug in the hard drives
that those databases are located on.

So now that we have two project files
in one database, we know that those asset

libraries I was talking about before
can be shared between those project files.

And as we update one of those asset

libraries, it's also going to be updated
on the other one as well.

This is something that we're going
to be diving into later on in the course,

but it's important to understand
why we are creating this database

and why we would want to create multiple
project files within one database.

So that's it for this video
project files and databases.

Really,
really important that you understand this.

Take notes,

make sure that you retain this information
because it is very, very important.

That's it for this video
I hope you guys enjoyed.

I'll catch you in the next one.