Saving time

[Kevin Cannon]

In the conform page, right click in the window for the offline clip and select “toggle offline/source clip” to get a viewer for your media pool.

I’d also like to know why the projects take so long to save – or what combination of setting will expedite the save (not saving thumbnails, etc)…

KC

prehistoricdigital.com
hardworkingpixels.com

[Peter Chamberlain]

Hi, if you have 7.0.3 use the middle “Autosave” option as this mimics pushing the save command and does an incremental save. The option to backup the project will take longer as Resolve makes a full project backup and them needs to complete some file housecleaning. Some facilities run Autosave during the day and each night do one backup.
Peter

[Kevin Cannon]

Thanks Peter, I’ve been in the midst of a project for a few weeks and not wanted to upgrade to 7.0.3, so I’ve missed that option.

While I have you, there was a thread a while back about how to actually use pgAdmin, step-by-step, to backup the entire Resolve database, but nobody from Blackmagic chimed in to explain. I don’t believe it is in any of the documentation, could we get a run-down on that? I’d feel better using the light-weight autosave if I knew that my pgAdmin backups were working…

KC

prehistoricdigital.com
hardworkingpixels.com

[Peter Chamberlain]

We have reports from users that pgAdmin works for them however we dont use it ourselves. An alternative is to just export the project using Resolves export function on the config screen. Select the project and right mouse click to then select export. Selecting all options will take longer but allows you to import into a new Resolve or your current one. This export and import features is used daily to move projects to different systems and sometimes to setup remote grading.
Peter

[Guilherme Ramalho]

Peter,
I didn’t find out how to use the pgAdmin… Is there any help file? How do you use it ?
I ask this before in this forum, but still with no clue.

[Rohit Gupta]

On the Terminal:

Backup:

1. cd /Library/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/
2. ./pg_dump -U postgres -Ft -b resolve > /tmp/resolvedb.tar

In the command #2 above, replace “resolve” with the database name, and /tmp/resovledb.tar with the file you want to save it to

3. Compress the backup file

gzip /tmp/resolvedb.tar

To Restore to a new DB:

1. gunzip /tmp/resolvedb.tar.gz
2. ./createdb -U postgres resolve1
3. ./pg_restore -U postgres -d resolve1 /tmp/resolvedb.tar

[Ola Haldor voll]

Will exporting a project include all keyframes and tracking done to PW’s?

[Rohit Gupta]

Yes

[Artem Leonov]

Its lighting fast now, thanx!

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