It does exactly what it says: it automatically saves your project every few minutes according to your settings. If you’re coming over to Resolve from Premiere Pro, I’m sure autosave is going to be very familiar. Let’s first look at the standard autosave feature. Resolve 14 gives us three autosave settings to choose from: Therefore, if you have updated recently, make sure you go back to the autosave settings and switch it to on. I’m sure that this could have landed me in trouble had I not started writing about the autosave feature.

This is because I’ve only just updated the software from the beta to the public release. However, in Resolve 14, the autosave is now under user settings in the preferences menu (CTRL+,).Īs a side note, even though I always keep autosave on, as you can see in the screenshot above it’s reverted to off. In previous versions of Resolve, you would find the autosave setting in Project Settings, which is located at the bottom right of the user interface. Some editors prefer to keep autosave turned off because it can disrupt their workflow, but with database improvements over the last few years, the autosave pop-up will usually open and close in under a second, and now Live Save removes the on-screen graphics altogether. While this article primarily addresses new users of Resolve, there’s something here for users of all levels - you might be surprised to find that the autosave menu has completely moved.īy default, Resolve sets autosave to “off.” Therefore, the first thing you need to do is to turn it on. In Resolve 14, there are now three ways you can edit with a safety net.

As these programs have advanced, so has the way autosaves work.

One heartache for video editors is to see a project crash and lose several hours’ worth of work. Thankfully, this doesn’t happen very often because of the built-in autosave in most NLEs. Learn how the release of DaVinci Resolve 14 puts this issue to rest. Losing editing data to a computer crash is every editor’s worst nightmare.

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