To help improve Resolve's workflow automation capabilities, it would be very useful if the Media Pool page had a right-clickable "Script" contextual menu entry added. I could see a Media Pool "Script" menu entry working in an identical fashion to the Resolve Fusion page's Node view based "Tool" scripting contextual menu feature.
When you run one of these scripts with footage selected, information about the currently selected item is passed automatically into the Lua or Python script as a global variable. Then the script is able to carry out an action that is contextually relevant for the user.
- This is a mockup image of what a Media Pool Script menu item might look like.
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Any script that is placed into the "Scripts:/MediaPool/" Path-Map location on disk would automatically show up in the Media Pool "Script" menu entry the next time Resolve is started. This would be very useful for allowing 3rd party tools to integrate seamlessly into the Media Pool page.
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I could see pipeline TDs using this type of capability to connect to external project/shot management tools like
Autodesk ShotGrid,
ftrack, or
Prism Pipeline, as well as interconnecting with version control software and asset management tools.