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Using Stills

You can import still images into the Media Pool, and edit them into the Timeline as clips with custom durations. By default, imported stills are 10 seconds long, but you can extend a still image’s Out point to a maximum of 17 hours and 40 minutes in length, which ought to cover just about any project you’re planning on working on, so long as you’re not Andy Warhol. DaVinci Resolve is correspondingly capable of importing still image clips referenced by XML or AAF project files, so long as they’re in a supported format.

DaVinci Resolve supports the use of stills in the following formats:



File Format


Alpha Channel Support

.tif

Yes

.png

Yes

.jpg

No

.dpx

No

.exr

Yes

.dng

No

.psd

No

.tga

Yes

.heif

No

.NEF

No

.CR2

No


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Once edited into the Timeline, still image clips have the same Composite, Transform, Cropping, Retime, and Scaling attributes as any other clip.

Photoshop File Support

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Fusion Page PSD Support

The Fusion page has support for multi-layered Photoshop files. You can use the Fusion > Import > .PSD command to import Photoshop files such that each individual layer appears as a separate MediaIn node connected to a cascading series of Merge nodes, ready for you to work on.

Fusion Page PSD Support

The Fusion page has support for multi-layered Photoshop files. You can use the Fusion > Import > .PSD command to import Photoshop files such that each individual layer appears as a separate MediaIn node connected to a cascading series of Merge nodes, ready for you to work on.

Fusion Page PSD Support

The Fusion page has support for multi-layered Photoshop files. You can use the Fusion > Import > .PSD command to import Photoshop files such that each individual layer appears as a separate MediaIn node connected to a cascading series of Merge nodes, ready for you to work on.

Photoshop (.psd) files appear as a single clip displaying only the bitmapped layers within the Edit page and Color page of DaVinci Resolve. Photoshop text layers and layer effects are not supported at the time of this writing.