Import from Email attachment

I am working on a MacBook pro and have video clips attached to a gmail. I want to move (copy) them from the the email and insert them. into Davinci Resolve 18. But I have had no success. Would appreciate any help you can give.

Save them to your computer, then import them in Resolve.

In the email programs that I've used, trying to open an attachment directly from the email program (for example, clicking on an attached PDF file) causes it to create a temporary copy of the file so that it can invoke the reader program for it (i.e., an Acrobat reader) and pass the file name to the reader program. Once the reader program exits the temporary file is deleted.

Obviously, you don't want this to happen for a video clip that you want to include in your Resolve project. You want the clip to have a permanent presence on your computer so that if you close Resolve and then open it up again later the clip is still there to be used.

That's why @xunile's answer is the correct one: don't try to import the clip directly from the email program - instead save it to some folder on your computer system and import it into Resolve from there.

Thanks to the 2 of you who replied. They helped me make another attempt to tackle the problem. I can't say for sure what works under circumstances different from mine. But I know what works for moving a video clip (in this case from Artgrid) in an email atteachment into Davinci Resolve 18 on a MacBook Pro.

1. Click HD or 4K on the attachment and wait for the download.
2. Go to Davinci and select File -> Import -> Media.
3. Find clip in Downloads (in Finder in the case of a Mac).
4. Click on the clip and click open and it loads into Davinci.