Master project setting presets - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

- Early in my career with DaVinci Resolve, one of the big problems that I found difficult to find a solution for were project settings. In other words, I often have a couple different types of clients who shoot at very specific frame rates and frame sizes with specific ways that I want to monitor them. And so that means going into the project settings, oftentimes with the client in the room and now I've got to go through and do all this kind of tweaky work in order to get the project set up only to realize halfway through that I missed something and something isn't quite set up right. What can you do to prevent that from happening? Now, what we're about to talk about is best done when you have some quiet time, when you can think about and you're in that kind of technical detailed work, not when you're in creative color grading or creative editing but when you've just got some time to think. And when you do, you can go into DaVinci Resolve and set up project presets. I'm jumping here into this untitled project. So which project settings am I talking about? If I press shift + 9, that opens up our project settings and this is what we're talking about, adjusting. We can go through and in every single one of these come through and tweak these to our heart's content. And what we want to do is save our changes as a preset we can recall at any time. So for instance, let's say I'm working on a UHD project. So I'll come on down to my timeline resolution and I'll select ultra HD as my timeline resolution. Let's also say our frame rate needs to be 25 frames per second for this particular client, who I'm working with all the time. But my video monitoring, I want to set that at 1080P 25. So I've got a UHD timeline but maybe my video monitoring can only handle HD. So I want to feed it HD 1080p 25. And I enable my background caching down to one second. Now I'm going to go ahead and click save. This is really important. Click save before you reopen shift + 9, come into presets, and now press save as. I'm going to give this a name, 25Fps Client A, click okay. And I'd just like to press load to confirm, that when I load this preset, it then loads into the current project and you see that it has, because you see how the width and height has changed to match this particular preset for this client. Let's create one more preset. Now it'll be the same basic thing except, we're going to go to 1080 HD. We're going to take this down to 1080 at 24 Fps, because that's what this client likes. 24 frames per second, but not Psf, which is segmented frame. I'm going to come down to 1080p 24, which is how I like to monitor. Hit save one more time. Open it back up, shift + 9, come back to my preset. And now we're going to save this one as 24 Fps Client B. Click okay. All right, so now I've got two presets. Let's go ahead and load that in, check our master settings. So now we're at our 1080p setup. And then if I come to the 25 FPS, load that up and now we're at our UHD 25 Fps setup. Now this is fantastic. It's a great way of saving off your different configurations without then at the start of every single session having to look and go through all of these different settings and maybe get something wrong. But let's take a look at what's missing from our presets. If I jump into our presets here, notice I've got delete so I can go ahead and delete any of these, load, save, save as, but you know what's missing? Export. There's no exporting of this. There's no importing of this. When I create a new database, all of these presets go away. I can't recall them. I can't reuse them. So all this work you do in your downtime in order to save these different presets, it feels like it's a little bit of a waste of time. And early in my career, I'd spent a lot of time creating presets only to discover I couldn't reuse them. But there's a solution to that. And we'll be talking about that in the next movie.