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You can also label stills for easier identification
Searching For Stills
Once labeled, you can search for stills you need in the Gallery.
— Click the Magnifying Glass button to open the Search field, click to place the cursor within, and then type the name or description you are searching for.
As soon as you start typing, DaVinci Resolve automatically begins to filter the results of the currently selected album in the Gallery to match what’s been typed.
Match Reference Wipe Frame
You can right-click any Gallery still and choose Match Reference Wipe Frame to automatically move the playhead to the exact frame that corresponds to that still, and select that clip in the Color
page Timeline.
Gallery Options
In the upper right corner of the Gallery palette there are several options that let you adjust the view and organization of your stills.
— Still Size Slider: Dragging this slider to the left makes the still thumbnails smaller, dragging it to the right makes them larger.
— Sort Stills: Choosing an option from this submenu changes the sort order of all clips in the Gallery. The options are:
— Still ID: Sorts all stills by their assigned ID number (track, clip number, grade version).
— Label: Sorts all stills by their text label.
— Record Timecode: Sorts all stills by their position in the program.
— Source Timecode: Sorts all stills by the timecode of the source clip they came from.
— Grab Date: Sorts all stills by the date they were originally grabbed.
— Create Time: Sorts stills based on when you saved each still.
— Thumbnail View: Pressing this icon puts the gallery in Thumbnail view; each still is represented by an image.
— List View: Pressing this icon puts the gallery in List view; each still is represented by columns of text attributes.
— Search: Opens up a search dialog box, to find stills based on their text label.
— Gallery View: Opens up the full Gallery Management window.
The Gallery options (L-R): Still Size Slider, Sort Stills, Thumbnail, List, Search, Expand, Options
When you right-click the gray area of the Gallery, behind the Still icons, you can open a contextual menu that provides a variety of additional options for controlling how many stills are saved, how they’re displayed, and how they’re arranged in the Gallery. There are the following options:
— Switch Wipe Mode: Switches the Reference mode between showing a “Gallery” still, a “Timeline” clip, or an “Offline” reference movie.
— Trace Timeline: When enabled, selecting a clip in the Timeline also automatically selects the first still that was saved from that clip to the Gallery.
— One Still Per Scene: When enabled, restricts the Gallery to save only a single still for each clip in the Timeline. If multiple stills have already been saved before turning this option on, those stills will remain in the Gallery until you save another still from the same clip, at which time all other stills from that clip will disappear.
— Apply Display LUT: If you have a Display LUT selected in the Lookup Tables panel of the Color Management panel of the Project Settings, it’s applied to the video output via a connected video interface, and also to the Viewer. Ordinarily, you don’t also want the Display LUT applied to stills you’re saving since it’s meant to be temporary. Accordingly, stills are saved with a LUT-free image. However, in instances where you may also want to save a reference to the currently used Display LUT, turning on “Apply Display LUT” saves the Display LUT along with the still, and applies that LUT when that still is used for split-screen reference. Keep in mind that the internally saved Display LUT is only used when playing that still in the Viewer; the DPX image that’s saved remains unaffected.
— Apply Grades Using: This submenu contains three options for how to apply the keyframes that are automatically saved within each saved grade.
— No Keyframes: No keyframes are copied. The state of the grade at the frame used to save the still is what is applied to the target clip or clips.
— Keyframes Aligning Source Timecode: Keyframes are copied aligning the source timecode of the saved grade with the source timecode of the target clip. This is the ideal setting when you’re copying a grade back to the clip it came from originally, or to a duplicate of that clip elsewhere in the Timeline, and you want the keyframes to align with the same frames as before. If there is no source timecode overlap, keyframes will be pasted aligning with the start frame of the edit, the same as the third option (below).
— Keyframes Aligning Start Frames: Keyframes are copied aligning the start frame of the clip that still was saved from with the start frame of the target clip. This is the ideal setting when you’re copying a grade with keyframes from one clip to a completely different clip, with different timecode.
— Use labels on still export: Lets you use labels that you’ve added to stills in the file name of exported stills.
— Show All Stills: This command shows all available stills in the current album if any have been hidden, for example by searching or by using the Show Current Timeline Only command.
NOTE: There are a variety of other commands available in this contextual menu that are covered elsewhere in this chapter.
NOTE: There are a variety of other commands available in this contextual menu that are covered elsewhere in this chapter.
NOTE: There are a variety of other commands available in this contextual menu that are covered elsewhere in this chapter.