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Resolve Studio 17.1, Mac Big Sur

• On disk, separate each shot into its own subfolder (common to do for EXR sequences and many others)
• Drag the parent folder from Media Storage into the Media Pool
• Shots come in to the media pool and the folder structure is maintained (good!)
• From the Media Pool sidebar, select all subfolders so you can see all shots together in the main Media Pool window
• Now, right-clicking on most of the shots gives you an incomplete context menu, missing important options like "Clip Attributes," "Input Color Space," "Alpha Mode," etc.
• Only the shots in the "active" folder (ie the last folder you clicked when you selected all subfolders) will show you the full context menu

So if I bring in 100 shots and they are each in their own folder, I have to click into each folder and modify each shot individually, OR pull all shots out of their individual folders and lose my folder structure. This behavior is different than Resolve 16. Is it an intended change, or a bug? It is very inconvenient.

Here is a video:
https://i.imgur.com/axuowiY.mp4

I can't duplicate this in Studio 17.1 for Windows using normal clips. (I don't work with image sequences.)

While my screen is not large enough for 100 clips in subfolders it all works as expected in 17.1 under Catalina.
So, it seems to be a specific bug in Bug Sure with its overly tight security attitude.
Check if you gave Resolve all the rights it needs…

I appreciate the "field reports!" They prompted me to look closer, and I have found more specifics about this issue. It is also not nearly as bad as I thought.

In the Media Pool, typically I select the parent folder, as well as the first child folder. This shows me all shots in all child folders. [Screenshot] This specifically is where I get the issue in Resolve 17 (including Catalina). It shows all shots in the child folders, but unlike Resolve 16, I get the "incomplete" context menu for all shots except the one in the explicitly-selected folder (b..._comp_v103 in this case).

If I directly select all folders [Screenshot], then I see all shots AND get the full context menu for each of them.

So I guess this is less of a "bug" and more of a "change in behavior."

There have been several small changes in behavior in 17. Not sure if they're all by design, though.

Jim Simon wrote:Not sure if they're all by design, though.

Yeah, I'm really starting to wonder about this one. It's kind of a bummer. You definitely have to have a clip's immediate folder selected in order to get the full context menu when you right-click on the clip. This has consequences if you do something else, like search all bins for a clip, then right-click on one of the clips in the search results, you only get the smaller context menu. That doesn't seem right.