Automate to sequence equivalent

Does anyone know of a script / plugin for Resolve that would lay down clips or stills onto the timeline at either timeline or audio clip markers? This would be the equivalent to 'Automate to Sequence - at unnumbered markers' in Premiere Pro.

I use this feature regularly to cut to the beat of a music track.

Thanks very much

I'm not sure how Premier works in this area, I can only assume from the description.

In resolve, one way I would go about it, although there may be better ways, is that I would import image sequance as individual images or if its clips as individual clips. Right click on the bin in which they are imported or select them all, choose; Create New Timeline Using Selected Bin. Than In the timeline settings I would choose appropriate resolution, frame rate etc.

After that I would have timeline with clips or images and I would drag my music track or dialog or whatever I need to edit to. And in Fairlight page I would use Transient Detection, which enables transient detection for all clips on a given track. Once enabled, a transient button appears on tracks to enable the transients on a track’s clips to be easily identified and navigated. When the Jump to Transient button is enabled, the Up and Down arrow keys navigate to transients within a clip.

And than I can add markers to any beat or whatever I need. Which makes it easy to edit based on that back in the edit page. There are plenty of editing tools there to make easy work of that process.

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That is what I would probably do if I wanted to match length of images or clips to audio beats. If I wanted to do the other thing, match audio to images or clips, than I would use elastic wave in fairlight.

Elastic Wave retiming is a fast and easy keyframe-based way of dynamically retiming audio, squishing and stretching different parts of a waveform to subtly retime audio playback for a variety of reasons, all while maintaining constant pitch. For example, if you’re using the audio from another take to replace that of the current take, but the performer’s timing is just a little bit different, you can use Elastic Audio to make small adjustments to retime the second performance to match the first. It has algorithms that are optimized for vocals/dialog, general purpose like music or foley or SFX and variable speed.

You can off course use both elastic wave and transient detection for powerful combo. Fusion has some powerful ways to work with audio and image sequences, but I don't think its for what you need.

Not sure if that is what you were looking for, but that is probably how I would approach it. Not a full time editor, though. Maybe there are better ways.

Thanks for this. I use BeatEdit to add markers to add timeline or clip markers at each beat - so, that's not the problem.

What I'm looking for is a way of adding to images (or clips) to the timeline and have them change at each marker. Premiere has had this function for many years - and it greatly speeds up 'editing to the beat'.

Yes - I can do it manually, but with 40-50 tags or more, that's just wasted time. I'm going Resolve will have this one day, but for no it's just easier to use Premiere for these jobs - which is a shame...

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I see what you mean. I couldn't find the direct solution, but I found this thread with similar request, and one guy sharing a python script. Not sure will it help you. If I find a better solution I'll post it here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/davinciresolve ... rkerscuts/

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Thanks again - but this python script was designed to add markers. BeatEdit will do this for me.

What I'm looking of is a means of 'autocutting' to the markers once they're in place. This has been available in Premiere Pro for years and makes the whole 'cutting to the beat' process sooo much quicker.

I'm hoping that BM will add this one day soon to Resolve, as it's quite simple to implement - and a real godsend...

I suppose in the meantime if you know how to script or know someone who knows how to, maybe you can make a tool for that need. I know this has been requested feature for a while. So far not much feedback from blackmagic.

Pleeeease add this BlackMagic.... It would be so helpful!