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If you're working with any kind of animation, Instagram content or time-lapse photography, importing those images as an image sequence is the best way to import bulk media. It's the easiest way to edit those images as a single video clip, so you can see how everything flows together.
Can I import image sequence in DaVinci Resolve? Yes, here's how:
2. From the drop-down menu, select "Frame Display Mode" and then select "Individual". This will ensure that each image file is displayed as an individual frame, rather than as a group of frames.
Now, when you import a bulk set of image files into DaVinci Resolve, they will automatically be imported as an image sequence. You can easily drag and drop the sequence into your timeline and start editing away.
This method saves you the hassle of having to manually select each individual frame and import them one by one. It's a quick and efficient way to get your image sequences up and running in in your DaVinci timeline.
First, find the image sequence in the Media Pool and right-click on it. From there, select "Clip Attributes". This will bring up the Clip Attributes window.
Inside the Clip Attributes window, select the "Video" tab. Here, you will see a drop-down menu for "Video Frame Rate". You can adjust the frame rate to whatever you need it to be for your project.
Once you've made your adjustments, simply click "Save" and your image sequence will be updated with the new frame rate settings.
When you import an image sequence, DaVinci Resolve uses your project frame rate to determine playback speed. If the sequence was captured or exported at a different frame rate than your project, the footage will play back too fast or too slow. To fix this, right-click the image sequence in the Media Pool before adding it to the timeline and select Clip Attributes. In the Clip Attributes dialog, go to the Video tab and set the Frame Rate field to match the intended playback frame rate. For standard animation exported as an image sequence, match this to your project frame rate. For time-lapse sequences, calculate the frame rate based on how long you want the final clip to be.
DaVinci Resolve supports the following file formats for image sequences: DPX, EXR, TIFF, PNG, JPG, JPEG, BMP, and TARGA. For the highest quality and greatest colour depth, DPX and EXR are the professional standard formats for image sequences, particularly in visual effects and animation pipelines. PNG is the most common format for animation image sequences produced by consumer software. JPG works but applies lossy compression to each frame which accumulates quality loss across the sequence. For image sequences that include an alpha channel for compositing, use PNG, TIFF, or EXR rather than JPG, since JPG does not support transparency.
Files appear as individual images rather than a single clip. Go to the bottom of the Media page browser and make sure Show Individual Frames is toggled off. If it is off and files still appear individually, check that the filenames are sequentially numbered without gaps. DaVinci Resolve requires sequential numbering with no missing frame numbers in the sequence.
The sequence plays back too fast or too slow. Right-click the clip in the Media Pool and select Clip Attributes. Change the Frame Rate to match the intended playback speed.
The images appear in the wrong order. DaVinci Resolve sorts image sequence files alphabetically and numerically. If your files are not numbered with consistent zero-padding, for example 001, 002, 003 rather than 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, the sort order may be incorrect. Rename the files with consistent zero-padded numbering and re-import.
The colours look wrong after import. Check the colour space settings for the clip in Clip Attributes. If you are importing EXR or DPX files from a VFX pipeline, the files may be in a linear or scene-referred colour space rather than the video colour space your project is set to. Set the Input Colour Space in Clip Attributes to match the colour space the files were exported in.
Time-lapse photography produces image sequences that are compiled into video. The standard workflow in DaVinci Resolve is to import the full image sequence as a single clip, set the frame rate in Clip Attributes to achieve the desired playback speed, and then apply colour grading on the resulting clip on the Colour page before adding any motion or stabilisation.
For time-lapse content, our free cinematic LUTs work well for adding atmosphere to landscape and architectural footage. The Moody Film Shadows LUT and the 22 Free Mega Cinematic LUT Pack are both worth trying on time-lapse material. For stock footage to supplement your own time-lapse clips, our free stock video collection covers a range of cinematic footage at no cost. For licensed premium stock footage, Shutterstock and iStock both have extensive time-lapse and aerial libraries. MotionElements covers additional affordable footage options across a wide range of international content. For music to pair with time-lapse edits, Artlist (2 months free via FreeVisuals) and Epidemic Sound have strong cinematic and ambient catalogues suited to this content type. Our own free music collection also has royalty-free tracks available at no cost.
For DaVinci Resolve templates to use alongside your image sequence imports, Motion Array (2 months free via FreeVisuals) and our own free DaVinci Resolve templates cover transitions, titles, and lower thirds. For AI image generation to create companion visuals alongside your image sequence content, OpenArt AI and Magnific AI are both accessible through our FreeVisuals partner links. For AI voiceover to narrate time-lapse and animation content, ElevenLabs generates natural-sounding voices with 10,000 free characters per month on the free tier. For editors who also work in Premiere Pro or After Effects, Envato Elements has large template libraries for all three applications under one subscription. For motion graphics elements that install directly into After Effects and Premiere Pro, AEJuice (10% off via FreeVisuals) has 26 free packs with no credit card required. For simpler video editing workflows, Filmora by Wondershare and CapCut are both worth knowing about as alternatives.
Yes. DaVinci Resolve natively supports OpenEXR image sequences including multi-channel EXR files. This makes it a strong choice for VFX compositing workflows where render outputs are delivered as EXR sequences. Multi-channel EXR files can be accessed via Fusion for compositing work using the Channel Boolean tool to separate individual passes.
Go to the Deliver page and in the Export Video section, change the Format from a video container like MP4 or MOV to TIFF, DPX, EXR, or PNG. Set the filename prefix and DaVinci Resolve will export each frame as a numbered still file rather than a single video file. This is the standard workflow for delivering VFX plates and animation frames to a compositing pipeline.
Yes. PNG files with transparency import with their alpha channel intact. Make sure your timeline and composition settings support alpha channels and set the composite mode of the clip appropriately on the Edit page to composite the PNG sequence over other clips on lower video tracks.
This usually means DaVinci Resolve is treating the first file in the sequence as a single still image rather than recognising it as part of a sequence. Go to the bottom of the Media page browser and confirm Show Individual Frames is disabled. If the issue persists, check that the image files are numbered sequentially with no gaps in the numbering and that all files in the sequence are in the same folder.
A video file is a single container file that holds all frames compressed together. An image sequence is a folder of individual still image files where each file represents one frame. Image sequences are preferred for professional VFX and animation pipelines because they offer better quality per frame, easier recovery from corrupt files, and flexibility in colour depth and bit depth per frame that most video codecs do not support.
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