All language subtitles for 2. Project Backups Project Manager Kolder Creative

So in this video, I'm going to quickly
show you guys how you can set up

DaVinci Resolve
to automatically save backups

of your project files in the background
while you're working.

Now, although I've never actually
had any incidences where Da Vinci

has corrupted a project file or I've had
anything go wrong with a project file.

So I had to go back to a previous project
file.

It is nice to have this feature
just in case anything happens.

And if you're working on a paid project
or anything that's important,

then it might be smart

to just have this setting turned on
just in case things do go south.

So this is all pretty simple.

All we want to do is just head over

to The DaVinci Resolve menu in the top
left here and select preferences.

The keyboard shortcut is command comma.

We're going to be presented

with this pop up over here,
and by default it's going to be on system.

You're going to want to head over

to user over here and under project
save and load.

You're going to want to make sure
that live save

is turned on and below
that you want to turn on project backups.

Now DaVinci is automatically going

to be backing up our project files
in the background while we're working.

Now, below project backups,

we have a couple of different
dropdown menus here that allow us to

optimize how DaVinci is going to be
making these backups in the background.

So an important thing to understand
about how these backups work

is that they begin to be discarded
on a first in, first out basis.

Once this amount of time here expires.

So we have three different options here.

We have minutes, hours and days.

So the first one here allows us to choose
how often

Da Vinci is going to make a backup
within each hour.

So in this case, we have every 10 minutes.

So that would be six backups in each hour.

Once the hour is complete,
Da Vinci will start

to delete these backups on a first
in first out basis.

So basically what that means is as a new
backup is created after we've hit an hour,

then the first backup that was originally
created is going to be deleted

and it's going to continue this on
and on as you're working.

The reason these backups
are being discarded on a first

in first out basis is to basically
just save space on your drive.

So really, the only values

that we could choose from in
this first dropdown are any from 0 to 60.

We can't go past 60
because this is just letting us choose

how many backups
we want to perform within each hour.

Now, the second row here
allows us to choose

how many hourly backups we are saving.

So in this case it's set to two.

So once we've worked in the program

for 2 hours, we will have two hourly
backups saved for that day.

And once we passed 2 hours,
the earlier backups are going to start

to be discarded on a first in,
first out basis.

So if I was to set this to ten over here,
then the program would have to create

ten hourly backups of the project file
first

before it starts to delete
any of the earlier backups.

And this last row over here

allows us to specify how many days
you want to save backups for.

So the way that this works
is the very last project backup saved on

any day is preserved
as the daily backup for that day.

So if I'm done working for the day

and the last backup that was made
was at like 6 p.m.,

then that will be the backup
that is used for the daily backup.

And if I want that backup for that day
to be preserved

for ten days, then
I'm going to want to set this to ten days.

Now, depending on
what kind of project you're working

on, you might want to raise
or lower this number.

For example, if you're working on

a quick little Instagram cut
that you're going to be done in one day,

then it might not make sense
to have this as a high number.

But if you're working on
a very big, extensive project,

then you might want to go
to previous backups of your project.

Maybe you want to go like 20 or 30 days in
so you can just bump this number up

to whatever you like.

30 would be playing it very safe that way.

You have a lot
a lot of backups to go back into.

And of course, this last area

allows us to choose what folder
we want to save these backups onto.

Right now, this is being
saved on to my internal SSD on my laptop.

But a lot of the time
what I will do is create a new backups

folder within the project files
folder of my project

and save these backups into there
so that that folder of backups

is on the same drive
as all the other media

and project files
and all that kind of stuff.

And of course you want
to be making a backup on to another drive.

So as long as you are copying over those
backup files to another drive as well,

you're playing it very safe.

And that way you have an exact backup on
a separate drive of the exact same files.

So let's press save and let's head
over to our project manager.

Now in here is where we are able
to access the backups.

So what I can do is right

click on this project file
right here and select project backups.

And in here

we're going to see a list

of all the backups that are being made
of the project file as they come.

So because we set our preferences
to every 10 minutes, this project

backups list is not going to be updated
until 10 minutes goes by.

So I'm going to set that to one minute
really quick

so we can just get an update here.

I'm going to head over to here, open up
project backups.

And right away we can see that
we already have our first backup

auto generated in the background
right here.

And in this window,
we are able to navigate to any previous

backups simply by just selecting them
and selecting load.

We'll have to give it a new name because
we are opening up the same project file.

But earlier versions.

So this one by default
has the word copy at the end.

We can click okay

and we can see in the background over here
that we have now to project files open.

This is that earlier version
that we just opened up.

We can see the name.

It has copy over here
and it's really as easy as that.

If we ever want to delete
some of the backups, we can go to project

backups over here,

select the previous backup over here,
and we can just select delete.

Now, of course,
this is the way that we set up DaVinci

to automatically backup our project files
if we want to do it manually ourselves.

What we could do

is simply just right click on the project
file over here, Export Project,

select where we want to export it,
and it's going to export it as a DRP file.

And with that file you can move it,
put it anywhere that you want,

and basically treat
that file as a backup in itself.

But of course I think it's a lot easier

to just have Da Vinci
doing this in the background.

That way we can just outsource

that task to the computer
and not have to worry about it.

That's it for this video.

I hope you guys enjoyed
Hope you learn something new

and I'll catch you in the next one.