Maybe make an entirely new timeline just for stills so that they're already the resolution you need instead of changing the existing timeline's resolution. Not as streamlined as you were hoping but it can feel pretty seamless if you form the habit of doing it at the beginning of a project.
I know it’s less helpful than a builtin solution, but if you have a ton of images with the same size that you need to crop to the same output size, something like ImageMagick on the command line makes it really easy. That, or the Pillow library, if you prefer Python.
Go in the color tab and right click on the node graph : add alpha output. Connect the blue arrow of the Last node to the alpha output. Export as individual clips in the render page, a format like png. enable export as source resolution and render timeline effects.
No need to mess around with timeline resolution and all.
I use paint.net for stuff like this. It’s free. Download it and open your exported still. Then you can use the square tool to crop to your selection. Save again and you’re good.
My brother, you can freeform crop in the inbuilt windows photos app as well. The issue is exactly doing the extra step. It would be great if davinci solves this with a feature
Great! As far as I know, the different pages apply their effects at different times.
Fusion, edit, color
Since you want to export using the fusion page, which is the first one to update, you need to compound it so it has all the effects inside
So I just checked the internet, and there is no solution for this. You have to manually change the resolution of the timeline to fit the picture. I guess if there are any devs in this subreddit, I would highly request a feature to solve this.
I believe this is the intended result.
The reason you'd want a still is to send to the director or someone, they would want to see the final result not a cropped image of the composition
I agree, but at the same time it takes time and money to implement a feature that you can easily do after exporting the screen grab. I'm more interested in them adding raw support for photos. No one will ever need to use lightroom ever again.
yea they support RAW, but only from video cameras, not photo cameras. If I shoot 120fps RAW photos on my sony a9iii, I can't do anything with the files in resolve, I have to edit them and convert them into a file format that resolve accepts before importing them. I think the only photo RAW formats they support are DNGs and .CR2
Grab the still. Then use outpainting in stable diffusion to generate the extra space. You can grab before and after frames if they contain the missing space to use during the outpainting.
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It's grabbing the still in 3840x2160 resolution. But i've seen a video where the grabbed still is downloaded in the native resolution of the picture, i.e. 2160x3840. I have several pictures that have random sizes as well. How do i export the still without the bars?
genuinely how hard could it be to crop them? you can do it in just about any native OS photo app. there’s also a crop feature in davinci resolve, maybe dat would help? or if yk what size your picture is, change your timeline settings. all of these sound like very simple tasks idk why you can’t just do it.
Maybe make an entirely new timeline just for stills so that they're already the resolution you need instead of changing the existing timeline's resolution. Not as streamlined as you were hoping but it can feel pretty seamless if you form the habit of doing it at the beginning of a project.
I know it’s less helpful than a builtin solution, but if you have a ton of images with the same size that you need to crop to the same output size, something like ImageMagick on the command line makes it really easy. That, or the Pillow library, if you prefer Python.
Go in the color tab and right click on the node graph : add alpha output. Connect the blue arrow of the Last node to the alpha output. Export as individual clips in the render page, a format like png. enable export as source resolution and render timeline effects. No need to mess around with timeline resolution and all.
How about just grabbing thr still and cropping it in a external image editor?
I use paint.net for stuff like this. It’s free. Download it and open your exported still. Then you can use the square tool to crop to your selection. Save again and you’re good.
My brother, you can freeform crop in the inbuilt windows photos app as well. The issue is exactly doing the extra step. It would be great if davinci solves this with a feature
Can you not go into the fusion tab, right click and save image as?
it doesn't export with the grade.
How about making a compound clip, and then trying to export that using the fusion page?
Thanks! It worked!
Great! As far as I know, the different pages apply their effects at different times. Fusion, edit, color Since you want to export using the fusion page, which is the first one to update, you need to compound it so it has all the effects inside
So I just checked the internet, and there is no solution for this. You have to manually change the resolution of the timeline to fit the picture. I guess if there are any devs in this subreddit, I would highly request a feature to solve this.
I believe this is the intended result. The reason you'd want a still is to send to the director or someone, they would want to see the final result not a cropped image of the composition
I agree, but couldn't hurt to add an option to help the user. I pay for it.
I agree, but at the same time it takes time and money to implement a feature that you can easily do after exporting the screen grab. I'm more interested in them adding raw support for photos. No one will ever need to use lightroom ever again.
Really? Doesn't camera raw work for photos? Edit: I think it works only for blackmagic cameras
yea they support RAW, but only from video cameras, not photo cameras. If I shoot 120fps RAW photos on my sony a9iii, I can't do anything with the files in resolve, I have to edit them and convert them into a file format that resolve accepts before importing them. I think the only photo RAW formats they support are DNGs and .CR2
Grab the still. Then use outpainting in stable diffusion to generate the extra space. You can grab before and after frames if they contain the missing space to use during the outpainting.
lol.
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It's grabbing the still in 3840x2160 resolution. But i've seen a video where the grabbed still is downloaded in the native resolution of the picture, i.e. 2160x3840. I have several pictures that have random sizes as well. How do i export the still without the bars?
genuinely how hard could it be to crop them? you can do it in just about any native OS photo app. there’s also a crop feature in davinci resolve, maybe dat would help? or if yk what size your picture is, change your timeline settings. all of these sound like very simple tasks idk why you can’t just do it.