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When is the Resolve database “too big”?
OK, so in the Resolve manual we are told that the database should be kept small, but we are given no reference at all regarding how small is small. Or how big is big, if you like.
Is having ten hours of corrected footage going to make the database too big? 100 hours or 1000 hours?
Or is it about the number of projects, is 1000 projects going to make it “too big”? Or perhaps 5000 projects or 10000 projects?
If it is regarding the size calculated in data (like 10GB), is 10GB big, 100GB or 800GB?
Oh, and while I am at it… wouldn´t Timemachine on your system drive be the perfect way of getting automated backups of all projects in the database?
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I’m paranoid. I’m starting to work on a TV series now. 10 episodes, each about 400-600GB, 45 min per episode. New database, and will only be used only for these 10 episodes.
Good or bad – it doesn’t hurt.
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Yeah, but it isn´t that easy for us… If we´d make a new database for every 450 minutes of footage we´d need to make a new database every single day. Not a good workflow, and no guidelines to when a database is “too big” doesen´t make it any easier. 🙁
If every Resolve project was saved as “a project” somewhere, anywhere, it would make life so much easier. I know you can export projects, but if I have understood things correctly this takes some time to do, so it is no good workflow either.
Backup management and being able to find old projects in a big pile of databases is lacking in Resolve, as far as I see it. But I guess it all depends on when a database is considered as “too big” to work smoothly.
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I think the first thing you should consider is to use an external database on a dedicated machine.
I am about to start a 24 episode series on monday and I will put that thing to the test 🙂
In the past I even made a new database for every reel of a movie.
But its much faster, reliable and transparent with Resolve 8 now.
Its just, I like to save, autosave and export every day too.
I rather spend 5 minutes getting a coffee than losing a day of work.A slice of color…
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I considered that, but decided I don´t want to put all my eggs in one basket. When Blackmagic cannot even tell us where the database it or what folder to backup… I ain´t gonna set all my four Resolve-seats on the same database. When/if that database fails, we´d have a major issue…
It feels safer to have it all split to four databases, really. And the staff will normally be working with different clients too, so no real need to share databases with eachother. It would also make the database much more difficult to search through (many more project to search through).
And also, when Blackmagic cannot (or will not?) tell us when a database is to be considered as “too big”, it is anyones guess when it gets too big. And having the same database for four seats will definetly make it “too big” sooner rather than later.
How soon? Well… it seems not even Blackmagic knows the answer to that question…
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