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Davinci Resolve Archive Strategy?

Started 7 months ago | Questions thread
OP Jones Longshot Regular Member • Posts: 350
Re: Davinci Resolve Archive Strategy?

Sean Nelson wrote:

I keep it all, whether it's actually been used in the project or not. It's only the spoiled clips that I delete. I have one folder tree for active projects with per-project folders below that, and then when I finish a project I export it to a ".DRP" file so that I can delete it from Resolve's database and then move the project's folder tree over into a second folder tree that I keep for archived projects.

Both active and archive folders are on my online data drive, which is backed up using weekly and offsite monthly cycles. I'm in the process of upgrading from 8TB online and backup drives to 16TB drives because I'm probably going to run out of space on the 8TB drive within a year or so.

Thanks for the answer. That isn't far from what I'm currently doing. For some reason I can't bring myself to delete source clips. And like you, I am beginning to run out of space on my 8TB drive. This stuff builds up so fast.

It sounds like the most important thing I can do is be vigilant about creating the project archive and moving that onto my archive drive. That would give me the option to delete the source from the working space.

Thanks again, for now I'll keep on with this approach (maybe modify it to be more like yours) and see how it goes.

Jones

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