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How to duplicate a session?
Anyone know how to create a duplicate of a session?
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10 Replies
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You could re-import the EDL. If you were grading with global versions everything should be the same.
You could also select create session with handles and simply choose 0 frame handles too.
Beware I think in both these circumstances, all active versions will be set to default
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Vladimir,
Thanks for the response. I’ve looked into these methods but the fact that the grades get switched to the default versions makes them impractical for me.
I’d like to create an exact duplicate of my session to serve as a sort of “back up” before I replace vfx shots, or if I want to grade a scene differently.
Definitely a feature request.
Roman -
I agree, I always wished grade versions would be preserved when making a sequence with handles – it’s a pain in the butt trying to re-set everything
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i second this request very much :
creating a session with handles and even importing another edl should alway preserve the version in use at the moment
g
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I must be missing something really basic in your question. Save As won’t work for you?
Dwaine Maggart
Blackmagic Design DaVinci Support -
Great point Dwaine.
Actually this is what I’ve resorted to for now. I can create a duplicate of the project by doing “save as,” and thus get a duplicate of my session but this doesn’t seems like a good method.
In terms of organization it’s messy. Having multiple projects floating around is messy and creates room for error in terms of mistakenly continuing with the wrong project.
Also I wonder what extra strain making a duplicate of a project has on the Resolve DB. In my mind you’re also duplicating all the sessions in a project, all grade versions, and all the stills which I’m sure adds up. Instead, duplicating a session within a project would share all of these elements, lightening the load on the DB, but maybe I’m wrong.
Roman -
i agree ,
duplicate the session is not really the solution …because if the project is big the DB gets bigger and bigger …plus , BMD , please note that when creating a session with handle the fact the everything gets reset to default version is quite an issue …(and the solution is not even : (before create the handle session) grab a still of the current chosen version , and apply it to the default version (this is not a solution because you might loose all the dynamics and tracked data …
g
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Although I wonder if, as a workaround, you can use colortrace to paste one sequence’s grades to another.
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Let me add that I would like to see this feature as well.
Sometimes I just want to have 2 or 3 versions of a scene or show. Instead of manually changing the grade for every shot manually (which just would take way too long) I would like to have a few versions of the same session.
I can reimport the AAF to create another session, but there are some fixes I had to do to the session (manually linking clips, slipping some clips, etc) and it’s a waste of time to have to re-do all those conform adjustments just to get a duplicate session that I can show a client quickly.
Can this be done?
thanks,
Peter -
I’d love a “duplicate session” too.
Or maybe an “instance session”, meaning two session which share the same timeline and everything, except for versions…
D.
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