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‌You can cancel the Grab All Stills operation at any time by clicking on the Cancel button in the “grabbing stills” dialog box. This is useful if you notice a clip needs to be altered after starting the tool, and you don’t want to wait for the operation to finish grabbing stills from the entire timeline before fixing it. Once you’ve made your correction, simply run Grab All Stills again.‌‌

By default, when you save one or more stills, they’re named “TrackNumber.ShotNumber.VersionNumber” with dots separating each number. If you like, you can choose an option from the General Options panel of the Project Settings to “Automatically label Gallery stills” in different ways. This is covered in more detail later in this chapter.

Selecting Stills

To select a range of stills, do one of the following:

— Click one still, then Shift-click another to select a contiguous range of stills.

— Command-click any stills you like to make a noncontiguous selection.

— Right-click any still, and choose one of the following commands;

— Select All: Selects every clip in the Gallery.

— Select Current to Last: Selects every still from the one you’ve clicked through the last still in the Gallery.

— Select First to Current: Selects every still from the one you’ve clicked through the first still in the Gallery.

Deleting Stills

If you need to remove one or more stills, this can only be done using the Gallery’s contextual menu.

To delete one or more stills, do one of the following:

1 Select one or more stills in the Gallery.

2 Right-click one of the selected stills and choose Delete Selected.

Each still is also saved with a variety of metadata that is used by DaVinci Resolve to manage the contents of the Gallery in different ways. This metadata can also be used for searching and sorting, and is viewable by opening the Still Properties window.

To display a still’s properties:

— Right-click a still in the Gallery and choose Properties.

A floating translucent window appears displaying the date the still was created, what clip it was grabbed from, when it was grabbed, and the source and record timecode values of the frame it came from.

Right-click on a still to choose Still Properties

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