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Boring Feature Request: “Realtime” saving to Resolve database
I’m working on a huge project in Resolve, and because of this, I have my Autosave set to longer intervals because it takes FORVER for the projectfile to save.
Today I discovered that Resolve does not save stills/grades to the database when you create them. They apparently only save when the project is saved. So after 15 minutes of creating grades, Resolve decided to crash and burn on me, losing all the stills and grades I had created since the last autosave.
I guess I have been spoiled having migrated from Apple Color, which saves grades and stills as physical files on the hard drive at the moment you create them. So if Apple Color crashes, you can still easily recreate your grades if you (like me) are a habitual grade-saver, because the grade info exists as a separate physical file, independent of the projectfile itself.
It would be great if there was an option to save grades as “backup” files on the filesystem in realtime, separate from the main Resolve database, so you dont have to wait for an Autosave or forced save to keep all your hard work safe. Either that, or make it so that Resolve constantly saves modified grade/project data to the database in realtime (or at least at much faster intervals than the Global autosave setting). This would be a huge lifesaver when working with large, complex projects where Project saving takes too much time to be constantly invoking.
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6 Replies
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Hi Robert,
One thing that you might find useful in case you crash is the Orphan stills section in the Gallery page. Any stills that were captured but not yet saved into the project during a previous run of Resolve should show up when you select the “Orphan” item under the database you are using.
You can then drag and drop the stills you want back into your project.
Hope this helps.
Vivek Vedagiri
Blackmagic Design -
Wow, I had no idea about the orphan stills feature. That’s great! Thanks for the tip.
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HI, Vivek. There’s just little stills in the orphan section, far less than what I captured b4 crash.
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Hi Nick,
Only the unsaved stills at the time of the crash would show up in the Orphan stills area. If you had saved the project before that, the saved stills would be in your project stills already.
Did the crash happen while grabbing stills?
Vivek
Vivek Vedagiri
Blackmagic Design -
Hi Vivek, surprise you still here. Thought everyone is on vacation.
Of course what I lost is the gradings made between the crash and the previous save/autosave.
Still pages stay what they were at the saving point. Orphan section is empty. I just emulates the crash (force exit), it’s the same, nothing in orphan section.And the crash happened when switching from play backward to play forward, never happened b4, pretty rare and weird, but doesn’t really matter.
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Hi Nick,
I think an auto-save works just like a save in this case. If the project is auto-saved before the crash, the stills will appear under the auto-saved project rather than the orphan stills section. So if you have auto-save to backup project enabled, the stills might show up within the auto-saved project.
Vivek
Vivek Vedagiri
Blackmagic Design
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