How to move project settings into new databases - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

- The project setting limitation of being unable to export or import a project setting after you've spent all of this time going through every single menu item in project settings and manipulating it and setting it exactly the way you need it set for the types of projects you're always working on, it kind of reduces the utility of those presets, right? So what can you do in order to get around that limitation? It's what I call project templates because what we can do is save off a DaVinci resolve project with all of those settings already set. We save them off as templates, reimport those projects into a new database and boom, away we go. So let's go ahead and give that a shot right now. Let's go ahead and make sure our 24 FPS client B is loaded up. So I'll load that up. I'll come here to master settings and yeah, so it's 1080P project all the way across at 24 frames per second. So let's imagine that the settings that we've gone through and we've changed all of these settings and we want to be able to reuse this for years potentially. Well, what we can do now is we've got this untitled project. Let's go ahead and hit save. And I'm going to call this template 24 FPS, 1920 by 1080. And I'm going to press save. Now I'm going to come down and open up my project manager. Right-click and export project. And I'm going to save this on my desktop. And I'm going to leave the name of the project. We'll save that. Close, Shift + nine, come back to our presets. Now let's load up our 20 FPS UHD project. Double check our settings real quick. Yep. UHD in the timeline. 1080P as video monitoring. I'll close that out. Now that we've updated this template, I need to save this as a different project. Save project as template 25 FPS UHD, hit save. There we go. Now let's do one more thing here, just to prove how this is going to work. What I want to do is now delete these two settings that we created for our two different clients. I'm going to delete that configuration. I'm going to delete this configuration. All right. So now we're back to the defaults. I'll load up the system config so we get rid of this UHD resolution. (clicking) Now, before I quit out of this project, I am going to want to export this project. And it's going to be my 25 FPS UHD project. Save it in the same place on the desktop that I saved the previous one. Now, if we quit out and we take a look I've got two different DRPs, DaVinci resolve project files. One is my 24 frames per second, 1920 by 1080. The second one is my 25 FPS UHD. So, how do we make use of these? Let's go ahead and relaunch DaVinci resolve. Now, when you create a new database, you're not going to have any of these new projects in there. So let's go ahead and mimic that by deleting these. This is good practice anyway, how to do all these things. I'm just right-clicking and choosing delete. All right. So now what we want to do is pull these template projects in so that we can then save them as presets again and then reuse them in this entire database. So I'm going to click and drag. There's our first template. It automatically launches us in, 24 FPS HD, Shift + nine. I am now going to save this as my new 24 FPS HD template. (clicking) I'll come back into my project manager, right-click, import project. And now I'm going to pull in my 25 FPS UHD template. Open up that project. Watch what happens when I open up my project settings UHD, 25 frames per second, HD monitoring. Background caching. Remember one second. That's what we had set it for. Now, I'm going to come into presets and save this as 25 FPS UHD, click Okay. And now I can move between these different presets that I've saved off as templates in any database that I want. So the concept here is, as you configure different presets for different clients, you do it in an empty project, Save that empty project out, name it appropriately, collect them all into a single folder. All of these DRPs in a spot on your hard drive where you'll know to find them. And then whenever you need them, you just pull up that template project, save it off as a preset. And now in that database, you can switch between your main different presets whenever you want. It's a workaround. It's a little bit of a clutch, but if you've done lots of customizations within your project settings, and you find that you're always forgetting to make little tweaks and changes that you do from project to project, project templates are the way you work around it in DaVinci resolve until one day, maybe eventually they'll give us a export and import button on these presets. Until then, this is the workaround.