How Do You Sync LUTs and DCTLs Between Multiple DaVinci Resolve Machines?

Use Resolve’s LUT locations preference and a cloud sync service to keep every machine in sync.

DaVinci Resolve’s LUT locations preference lets you add external folders that Resolve scans for LUTs and DCTLs – colorist Jason Bowdach demonstrates how to pair this feature with a cloud sync service like Dropbox or Google Drive to keep a shared LUT library seamlessly synced across multiple workstations.

If you work on more than one machine – maybe a full grading suite at the office and a smaller setup at home, or a dedicated render machine alongside your primary workstation – you’ve probably run into this problem: your LUTs and DCTLs don’t follow you between systems. Open a project on the wrong machine without the right files, and Resolve throws errors.

You can manually install your LUT and DCTL library on every machine, but that gets tedious fast – and keeping everything in sync becomes a chore you’ll inevitably forget. In this Insight, the first in a new series on optimizing multi-machine workflows, I’ll show you a far more efficient approach using a feature built right into Resolve that most colorists overlook.

“This is a quick tip, but it is one that has paid dividends for me for years. [With this setup] I never have to keep track of: this machine has this LUT and that machine has that LUT.”

Jason Bowdach, Colorist

Key Takeaways

By the end of this Insight, you should understand how to:

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