{"id":950,"date":"2020-08-03T00:20:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T07:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/?p=950"},"modified":"2020-08-03T00:41:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T07:41:21","slug":"resolve-drp-watched-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"Resolve DRP Watched Folder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Python 2.7 or 3.x compatible script will watch a directory and move DaVinci Resolve DRP files to a backup folder one level below.<\/p>\n<p>When a Resolve user repeatedly saves DRPs using a keyboard shortcut they will overwrite each other because they all use the same file name. When the script is running it will append the original name with a timestamp and move the DRP file to the backup directory.<\/p>\n<p>Only tested in Linux, but it should work on all three supported OS-es. Windows does not come with Python. You need to install it yourself.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to run the script is from the command line because it will report progress.\u00a0 That way you can also easily stop it with CTRL+C.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure to start the script before you save any DRPs. At start the script will delete any lose\u00a0 files it finds in the watched folder.<\/p>\n<p>You can also run this script from Resolve script dropdown menu and see the reporting in the Resolve built in console.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/movedrp.py_.zip\">Download movedrp.py<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Python 2.7 or 3.x compatible script will watch a directory and move DaVinci Resolve DRP files to a backup folder one level below. When a Resolve user repeatedly saves DRPs using a keyboard shortcut they will overwrite each other because they all use the same file name. When the script is running it will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/?p=950\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resolve DRP Watched Folder<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}