[James Milner-smyth]

Hi Javier

If you have the full licenses you can share a database. Make sure you are all running the same versions.

You have to know the IP address of the grade you need to access. Then at the Resolve Login screen choose the Database Manager button at the bottom.

In the dialog screen press Connect. Now enter the exact name of the database you want to access, but instead of the localhost address of 127.0.0.1, enter the IP of the remote grade and press OK. If you have put this in correctly, that database will now be in your list of accessible databases and you can Select.

Just to note that while the stills information and thumbnail will be visible, the actual media file that gives you the viewer preview will be in the file path that was set up to that local machine which will not be the same as yours, unless you have set up a network share. You can still use those stills, you just can’t get the preview in the viewer.

But if project sharing is something you are doing a lot your best bet is to set up a PostGres server on a central machine (and you can automate backups too). This is fairly easy although you may have to do a bit of digging as to the external Postgres access settings allowed (editing of the configuration files).

An issue you will find is that if you take a grade system off the network and Resolve runs without the network it will reset the Database Conf file which has the list of available databases. So you will need to reconnect them later. It is best to implement a structured naming convention for your databases that anyone can remember easily if they have to reconnect. Else you can use the PostGres Admin tool to browse the server for the database names to remind you. This is also a good tool for doing entire database backups: not just one project.

Hope that helps

James Milner-Smyth

CTO The Post Factory Group, London
Post Factory, Gear Factory, Look Factory
https://www.postfactory.co.uk
https://www.gearfactory.co.uk
https://www.lookfactory.co.uk

[James Milner-smyth]

We found the issue with 4K plus rendering may not just be about the cards but the OS you are on.

Using 3xGTX470 on Mac OSX Resolve we could grade OK but it would not render a single frame at 4K: it would stall with no error reported and hang.

Switching the project to a Windows 7 based Resolve with the same GFX cards rendered fine.

James Milner-Smyth

CTO The Post Factory Group, London
Post Factory, Gear Factory, Look Factory
https://www.postfactory.co.uk
https://www.gearfactory.co.uk
https://www.lookfactory.co.uk

[James Milner-smyth]

Peter that is great to hear and couldn’t come sooner.

The reality is that final specs or not, we are using the cameras, we have the jobs and we are working with the footage right now.

So the sooner the tools we prefer to use such as Resolve catch up, even if they are not final or perfect in any way, the better.

Best

James Milner-Smyth

CTO The Post Factory Group, London
Post Factory, Gear Factory, Look Factory
postfactory.co.uk
gearfactory.co.uk
lookfactory.co.uk

[James Milner-smyth]

Will do, thanks.

CTO The Post Factory Group, London
Post Factory, Gear Factory, Look Factory
https://www.postfactory.co.uk
https://www.gearfactory.co.uk
https://www.lookfactory.co.uk