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Data Management


Davinci Resolve Workflows

2026-02-07 6 min read Anoff

DaVinci Resolve is a powerhouse for video editing, but it can quickly become overwhelming when all you want to do is cut together some nice holiday videos. If you’re like me, you probably just want to piece together those precious memories from your phone or drone without getting bogged down in complex Hollywood workflows. Here are three of my main workflows that keep things manageable, fast, and still look great: Timeline Creation, Color Grading, and Archiving Projects.

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Backup your NAS (Synology) to external harddrive

2024-11-03 5 min read Anoff

Some months ago I decided it is time to take control of all my pictures. So far everything is hosted either on Google Photos or Adobe servers.

First thing was buying a NAS and trying out different self-hosted photo applications. Of course if you keep the data yourself, you are also responsible for making sure nothing happens to it and run Backups. This post will explain how to setup a non-vendor-specific encrypted backup of your NAS data that can be read by any Linux system. The description in this blog post is based on a Synology NAS but works for any Linux based system, NAS, server or computer.

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