Are you a video editor trying to collaborate remotely with your team? No doubt you’re excited about the flexibility you’ve gained being able to work from anywhere, but you’re likely facing some challenges too. 

Mainly, how can you effectively collaborate on a video project from a distance? Most of us are used to doing much of the creative decision making during live feedback sessions in the studio or editing suite, so is there a way to recreate this workflow style from a distance? 

The short answer is to do this, you’ll need additional collaboration tools that enable your team to stay in sync and effectively communicate through every step of the creative process in as close to a “live” session as possible. 

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Does DaVinci Resolve offer a native collaboration feature?

With the release of DaVinci Resolve 17, they have included an incredible multi-user collaboration interface that allows many different editors to work on a single project at the same time.

Its design is to allow one editor to be cutting one scene while a different editor cuts another. While they’re both doing that, the audio mixer is mixing on a different scene that’s been picture locked, all under one project file. 

This feature also includes shared marker notes and a built-in collaboration chat that allow team members to communicate with each other about the project. 

While these are all huge steps forward to making DaVinci Resolve more collaboration friendly, it’s still not quite there yet. Our biggest issue with the multi-user system is that there’s no clean workflow for review and approvals, making it difficult to see what changes have and have not been approved. 

There’s also no integrations that allow you to chat face-to-face while you work, which makes giving and receiving feedback a much slower process. To do any of these things we’ve mentioned, you’ll need additional software. 

Thankfully, there are some fantastic tools available that make it easy to communicate and collaborate with your team during editing sessions, give and receive feedback, and keep everyone on the same page from the first edit to the last. 

Tools that can help your team collaborate in DaVinci Resolve

Tool #1: Evercast

Evercast is a video streaming and communication platform specifically built for creative teams that need to stream professional editing tools while chatting with their team. 

It was built by creatives, for creatives, with a design intended to get you as close to the feeling of a live in-studio editing session as possible. This is an incredible tool for live editing sessions where everyone can talk and collaborate while they work in real-time. 

Pros:

• Ultra-low latency (less than 150ms on average) means that you’ll be able to chat and note-take in as close to real-time as possible
• Full HD streaming so you don’t miss a detail
• On-screen annotation and timestamped notes help you keep project notes organized and frame-accurate (no more hunting down the “thing” your co-collaborator was talking about)
• The platform allows for simultaneous video chatting, text chatting/notetaking, and workstation streaming, all under one clean interface
• No additional software is required for participants who are just joining a meeting; they simply need to follow a link to join
  

Cons:

• Requires some setup time and configuration for editors who want to stream their workstations (this is just a one-time setup)
• A bit more expensive than other tools