Reference Wipe with Gallery is black

[Dwaine Maggart]

Gallery image wipe being black is normally because you are not actually storing the still images that are used for the wipe. By default, stills are stored in the first path defined in the Scratch Disk list in Resolve Preferences / Media Storage. If this is not a valid path that Resolve can write to, then the still images won’t be saved, and you won’t be able to wipe to them. Or, if it’s a project you’ve worked on previously, and the path where the stills were stored is no longer present, you will see black.

You can see what the current stills path is in your currently loaded project by looking in Project Settings / General Options / Working Folders – Gallery stills stored at:

Regarding the Timeline Ref wipe, that involves wiping between 2 selected clips on the timeline. Click on the first clip you want to wipe with. Leaving that clip highlighted, RIGHT click on the second clip you want to wipe with, and select Wipe Timeline Clip. You can now wipe between those 2 clips. Additional details on page 305 of the Resolve manual.

Dwaine Maggart
Blackmagic Design DaVinci Support

[Rob Lederman]

Thanks. We had a drive go bad, the one in which we were saving the stills. Changed the location (and replaced the drive) and all is happy now.

Rob

Rob Lederman
Sr. Smoke Editor / Compositor / FCP / Resolve
North Avenue Post
rob@northavenuepost.com

[Chris Oben]

Hi Dwaine. Having trouble with gallery stills randomly disappearing from a project. Even without quitting resolve some folders of stills literally turn to black. Even imported stills won’t stick! If I click any of the black icons resolve crashes completely. How can I solve this? Gallery destination is set to its default location. Any helpful appreciated … I have hundreds of stills for a major client that I can’t access! Using V12.3.2 studio

Chris M. Oben

https://www.chrisoben.com