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The top member is you, and you can change the name you use by editing the text field.
Additionally, you can click the icon to the left and choose a new color for yourself from the icons in
the pop-up menu below. All the badges that indicate who has a lock on which folders, timelines,
and shots are color-coded, so it’s a good idea for everyone to choose their own custom color so
you can tell who’s doing what.
There are eight custom colors for
collaborators to choose from
How Collaboration Works
At its simplest, collaborative workflow uses a “first come, first served” model to manage who has can
make changes to what. Essentially, the first collaborator to select a bin in the Media Pool, open a
timeline, or select a clip in the Fusion page or Color page gets a “lock” on that item. Once an item is
locked (indicated by a colored collaborator badge), other collaborators can look at it, but they cannot
make changes. This prevents versioning conflicts from occurring.
Bin and clip locks are released when a collaborator selects a different bin or timeline in the Media or
Edit pages, or a different clip in the Fusion page or Color page. At that point, the changes that have
been made to the previously locked item are “checked in” and made available to all collaborators once
they refresh their project (by clicking a circular refresh icon that appears to the right of bins in the
Media Pool or in the corner of the Edit page Viewer).
All changes that collaborators make are automatically saved to the project as they’re made, via Live
Save (which is always on in Collaborative mode), so no work will ever be lost as you collaborate with
your team. However, each collaborator gets to decide when they want to update the bin, timeline, or
clip they’re currently working on to see the changes made by everyone else, in order to prevent a
kaleidoscope of constant alterations to compositions and grades from being a distraction while
you’re working.
The following sections describe Bin and Timeline locking and Clip locking in more detail.
Automatic Bin and Timeline Locking
Whenever a collaborator opens a particular bin, that bin and its contents are locked, preventing any
other collaborators who open that project from making alterations to anything inside that same bin.
This prevents versioning conflicts while work is in progress. When a bin is locked, you can still view its
contents, if for instance you just need to figure out where a particular clip has been put, but you can’t
make changes.
Furthermore, when a collaborator opens a timeline in either the Edit or Fairlight pages, whatever bin
that timeline is in is locked as well, along with any other timelines or clips in that bin. Collaborators can
open locked bins and see the contents for reference, but they cannot make any organizational or
editorial changes. The only things that can be changed once a bin and its contents are locked are the
creation or alterations of clip compositions in the Fusion page, and alterations to clip grades in the
Color page.
You can always tell when a collaborator has a lock on a bin and its contents because a badge appears
to the right of the bin in the Bin list, and in the corner of timeline thumbnails that are visible in the
Media Pool browser area. Hovering the mouse over that badge in the Bin list reveals a tooltip with that
collaborator’s name.
Chapter 194Collaborative Workflow 3590
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