How To Fix DaVinci Resolve NOT Importing Image Sequences - Version 17 & 18

In DaVinci Resolve 17 (plus 18 Beta), I've found an annoying bug which means I was unable to import image sequences. Here's how to change the settings so this doesn't happen.
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[@MatiasRispau]

You are a hero, I was trying to import a movie sequence (more than 60.000 tiff files) and Davinci was not responding. This fixed!!!

[@pannonianknight]

i started panicking for 100 frames hahaha

[@robertcrystals]

Yeah i'm doing 55000 but still getting the spinning ball...

[@DanteTheRedPossum]

I love when this type of creators make straight to the point videos to problem-solving situations. Because clearly I don't want to spend 10 minutes solving it instead of actually working haha. (Obviously when it's possible, I know some issues need time to be solved)

[@curvingorbit8262]

This didn't work for me. Here's what worked : on the Media page, go to your HD icon at top left, navigate to the folder that contains your individual files - double-click to open this folder and … Bam … the files appear as a sequence, just like that ! Then drag this clip down into the Media Pool, switch to the Edit page and you're good to go.

[@DominikMarczuk]

I don't usually post thank-you comments, but this video deserves it. Thanks so much for this tip, it's a genuine life saver!

[@Marcryzk1]

Quick and straight to the point. You are amazing. Thank you!

[@goncafa]

My god! The whole day fighting with that and the solution is too easy!! Thanks for the video and here you have the like 👍

[@occularmalice]

Thanks! I just did an install and followed another video where it was automatically converted for him but not me. Your video actually had the answer. I guess the other guy already had this setting on and it was working for him, but a brand new install has it turned off by default. Thanks again for the help!

[@enotmedia]

ты единственный, кто сказал как с этой проблемой справиться! Спасибо!

[@keenjimma]

This problem was driving me nuts in DaVinci and I just couldn't figure it out, thank you hero.

[@jumalsam]

THANK YOUU! This issue has been bugging me for days, I appreciate your help

[@SAktush]

Great! Thank you, it was a really BIG problem. Do you now actually why does RESOLVE do not recognise sequential files .jpg in folder natively without this setting? Other videos starting with "oh look its amazing, resolve already recognised it!"

[@alekseya4401]

sad but true

[@arcijs26]

Thank You! I could not even follow tutorials on first steps because it wasn't importing as sequence :D

[@AllenKrughoff]

Finally, solved my problem getting Inspire 3 footage into Resolve - thank you

[@juliangroves4836]

Thank you very much for this video. It had me scratching my head at first as to how to get an image sequence into DaVinci Resolve. Doesn't work straight out of the box like other software. Great video, straight to the point, and fixed the problem. Thank you once again.

[@PeterEngelmann401]

Thank you so much! This is really helpful and works perfectly well.

[@LIGHTBULBCODING]

Wow! This just saved my 2 - hour render from the recycle bin! Thanks!

[@NarekAvetisyan]

Just strait to the point. You're a legend bro!

[@NicksIntensions]

Thanks man, I just upgraded to DR 18 and this started happening. Appreciate the time saver!

[@lookscookslindsay5084]

Thanks so much for the visuals and explaining it quickly! This just worked for me when nothing else would.

[@guidetonorway]

Thank you! Watched a few videos before yours and this one was the only one mentioning this fix! Thumbs up

[@germanmairen]

Thanks mate! I was crazy with this issue!!!

[@germanmairen]

@A-fxs go to the bottom of the layout and you will see it with the rest of the icons: edit, cut, color, fairlight and deliver

[@samuelkruzynski5983]

was trying to import a png sequence from unreal engine 5 and it was driving me insane! you're a lifesaver!

[@sachinperera1900]

no chitty chat. straight to the point

[@jaketheplumber16]

0:52 I could kiss you for this. Thank you so much!

[@hanslangenberg3617]

Thank you so mutch. I had trouble importing images for a timelapse. This realy helped

[@zanderwilll]

THANK YOU. Lifesaver under a tight deadline

[@InformationEngineer59]

Um, I watched this video, and it was not helpful. I found that the problem was the naming of my files. Unless they are named with a nice clear sequence trailer, 009, 010 etc, rather than 9, 10, the sequencer quietly failed. So if this doesn't work, carefully check your file naming.

[@armoredbricks]

Thank you! Very helpful, couldn't figure out what was going on. This solution worked great!

[@CWReace]

Thanks! Was trying to make a timelapse the "old way" with Photoshop, and it apparently does not support video on Mac M1 chips (still). Thought maybe I could just do it in Davinci Resolve, but it wasn't playing nicely. Then I found this video, and all is good again!

[@treecatt]

Just installed the v18 Studio release. Still not importing image sequence as movie clip. End up with individual frames.

[@DJCville]

THANK YOU, Matt!! Auto started failing in my Studio 18.1.4 Build 9.

[@zacksv]

This video really help alot man,, straight to the point ,i was getting frustrating with other long videos just doing the whole intro stuff and wasting time and still not solving the problem 😂👌

[@joshua42777]

Thank you so much!! This is the best vid I've seen on this topic!

[@xxVeidxx]

uff finally, 3 hours searching for that one tip ; thanks

[@dushyantsingh4278]

Finally after two days, thanks for the quick tutorial.

[@HuntersCanFly]

Bless you! Went through 6 other videos before I found this!

[@tahr-delta]

Exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much!

[@enitydesign7313]

Thank you so much for this, this is literally saved my day!

[@armiks22]

It took this video to drain my frustration, thank you.

[@robertschwarz9886]

A quick Solution for a terrible problem. Thank you so much!

[@C8XC8X]

I found it still wasn't working but I had to rename all my images that had date/timestamps, and give them a sequential numbering suffix. Then resolve let me use your fix along with the fixed numbering to detect a sequence as a single media item.

[@SmoothGefixt]

This was helpful!, straight to the point:)

[@arielshpitzer]

I love you bro :-) I almost went back to blender to composite one shot which is quite stupid.

[@ShinyTechThings]

Thank you SO MUCH!

[@Trapshitkalci]

For me it does not import this way either..... I set it to "sequence" but it did not help. Is there any other way around ?

[@SporeAltair]

I don't have Frame Display Mod in this window. This window has Show Filmstrip.

[@PubRunner]

Thanks i was about to give up for the night, it solved the issue

[@kroniken8938]

it would be great if you would have shown how to get into the media storage menue. You seem to just get in there with a hotkey but I cannot find it

[@mrtobycook]

At the bottom of your screen, with davinci open, you'll see various tabs? The one on the left is called MEDIA. Click that - that's the way you get into the Media Storage page.

[@kroniken8938]

@@mrtobycook eventually solved this 7 months ago but big 💗 thanks for taking your time

[@suzycerulean]

Thank you for the super quick video!! Not sure why thats OFF by default but appreciate the easy solution

[@CamKoutv]

Thank you so much!

[@BrownBrickFilms]

YOU SAVED ME SO MUCH TIME, YOU ARE A LEGEND MAN! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@markturner8597]

Tried importing a 5hr timelapse with 18,000 files and DR said "BUAHAHA". Thank you SO MUCH for this, not sure I would have figured this out myself at all.

[@vegadeth]

For some reason this is not working for me. The strange thing is that It was working just a few days ago. I changed the frame display to sequence jut a few days ago and it worked. Now it's not working.

[@hugon06]

Thanks so much !! Simple and easy fix !!

[@CaptSanchez]

Thanks a ton. This has been bothering me for a while! lol.

[@danmorsemusic]

Hero of the day! Thank you my man! Subscribed!

[@David-uv7hz]

Fantastic! Was struggling with this! Great, to the point video!

[@beyond-x]

So simple and helpful! Thanks!!!! Dope!

[@DJBFilmz]

Thank you! I honestly have no idea why this isn't fixed. Still an issue in 18.5 and quite frankly, ridiculous.

[@Hazardteam]

Yeah and another pro tip: 2x2=4. Absolutely revolutionery super secret information. AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Toth_krisz]

You are an absolute superhero! 🍾📸🤘🏼

[@joe-fc6be]

bro you just friking did more than help. Thank you

[@qweek-ht3yo]

thanks for the video, the best explanation of this problem. Thanks to the author!

[@joaquinlabastida6051]

How do you change the frame display mode on an iPad?

[@pacman_pol_pl_polska]

Holy shit, when you come back after few versions and you want to rip your head off. Thanks, Davinci!

[@tkathn4301]

Amazing! Struggled with this for an hour!

[@marcovalentini6477]

Thanx a lot man, that was exactly what i was looking for

[@DaNiLY]

i did this, but now the sequence is playing too slow, how do i go about speeding it up? i'm very new to this editor

[@DaNiLY]

nvm, fixed. thank you for this video!

[@f33sh666]

Thank you so much, I've been going crazy trying to fix this!

[@firejelly]

Thank you. Worked like a charm. Was ready to smash this thing.

[@tomavellino9553]

Awesome tip Matt!!! thank you , been driving me crazy!!!!!!!

[@vidsmythe3831]

Thank You very much. Yesterday it worked........ today I was going nuts. you have to drag it to the folder also it seems.

[@ponimania]

genius, genius, genius. Thank you my savior !!!

[@lominee287]

Man, you just saved my project! thank you so much!!

[@mamassachen]

you just saved my day! Thanks so much!

[@marknettletons]

Thanks! Frustrating, but such an easy fix. :)

[@bynumoil9615]

Thank you so very much. This has been driving me crazy (ire)🎉

[@ArthurFurtadod2r]

Many thanks! It's was (also) driving me crazy here!

[@olgwoodart4996]

Thank you. I always forget where the command is at.

[@weirdscix]

Oh, this was confusing me, very useful tip :D Thank you

[@tomablock1234]

Thx u so much man !!! just for this i follow u, you are my hero ;)

[@johnkellydirector]

Thanks. The out of sequence import was driving me nuts....

[@adrianhorn6655]

Brilliant Matt you have a new subscriber

[@blingdaddyx]

I love you man ! Amazing tutorial

[@Ferdigrapher]

Had the same problem! Thank you sooooo much! What a stupid design choice from BM....wonder why they did it.

[@ektelion]

OMG thank you so much, this was driving me crazy!!!

[@Stonefieldmedia]

BLESS YOU !!! I needed this...

[@MounTmikeY]

Very helpful, thanks a bunch!

[@Erilinor]

Not working for me, i did this in the past, but now its not woking anymore. Any ideas?

[@jubbles]

Thank you!!! This was driving me crazy lol

[@AshT8524]

Thanks a lot, I'm trying to learn Davinci Resolve and the first project I choose to do a timelapse got stuck here

[@InternetGod]

this is not working for me at all on 18.5 nothing happens when i click sequence

[@dlegendaryl4965]

you are a life saver!!! I almost went crazy,,, !!!! 😅

[@Creative-jg6gq]

I dont have Frame Display Mode - Its showing Show Folm Strip instead ????

[@nicholassabai7284]

Thank You very much. I had already started to pull my hair out at this point. This solved my problem

[@redlenfer8]

You save my day ! Thank Matt

[@BDubzzzzzz]

Solved my problem, and quickly too! Subscribed!

[@GameFuMaster]

i have the opposite problem, it keeps making my jpg image sequences even though it's one image

[@AMolecularLevel]

Thanks very helpful, fixed the issue

[@garnishstudio3567]

Excellent, high quality content. Thank you.