Intuitive renaming UI for new Stills folder

Not so much a feature request than a fix request, really.

As a DIT I create a lot of stills and a lot of stills folders. When you create a new stills folder in Resolve, the title becomes inactive immediately, which is contrary to the usual UI convention that after creation of a new folder, the new name is highlighted, so one can immediately type the new name, because “Stills 1”, “Stills 2”, etc. is rarely good enough. This is only the case with stills folders, media page folders (bins) for example behave like Finder folders in that they immediately expect to be renamed.

I know it’s just a tiny thing, but what happens a hundred times a day is that I create a new folder and Immediately start typing the name of the folder, and every keystroke invokes one or another shortcut and messes up my project. It happened more than once that I didn’t notice all the changes I had made and for example applied presets to clips inadvertently.

Am I the only one? How many of you have cursed over this?

I create...a lot of stills folders.

How does one do that?

Ah okay. I should say "Stills Albums", I think that's the correct Resolve term.

Thanks, but...same question.

What are you asking? How does one create stills albums? Or why does one create a lot of them?

How?

Page 2283 in the manual.

I noticed it too, but im not using it as often as you do i guess. If you really do this hundreds of times it might be worth diving into this python thing. You might find a way to do this by using a shortcut and immidiately make the renaming active. But im not sure.. not really an expert. But i have seen people making some cool automated stuff.

I noticed it too, but im not using it as often as you do i guess. If you really do this hundreds of times it might be worth diving into this python thing. You might find a way to do this by using a shortcut and immidiately make the renaming active. But im not sure.. not really an expert. But i have seen people making some cool automated stuff.

That is actually a real good suggestion, never thought of that. I’m not afraid of a bit of code, I do know a little bit of python anyway. And I used to make AE scripts for things like this in After Effects. Will have a dabble...

Cool, let me know if you figured it out. I'm really interested in python, but i am afraid of code

I must have a different manual.