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Stills (Beta)

Beta Feature

The stills feature is currently in beta and available by request only. To have this feature enabled for your project, please reach out through our live chat support (click the chat icon in the bottom right corner) or email us at odailies@ottomatic.io.

The stills feature in o/DAILIES allows dailies managers to share high-quality frame grabs extracted from tools like Silverstack or DaVinci Resolve.

Uploading Stills

_still

First, extract your still images using tools like Silverstack or DaVinci Resolve. Then place them in the _still folder of your project directory using one of these naming patterns:

ClipName.jpg                  # Basic naming
ClipName-FrameNumber.jpg      # With frame number
ClipName-UniqueIdentifier.jpg # With custom identifier

Where: - ClipName must exactly match an existing clip in your project - -FrameNumber or -UniqueIdentifier helps identify the specific frame

Viewing and Managing Stills

Stills are automatically associated with their source clips in the database. Users with the "Stills" permission can:

  • View all stills in a dedicated stills view
  • Download original stills
  • Organize stills alongside their source clips

Switching Between Video and Still Mode

Users can easily toggle between video clips and stills viewing:

  1. In the bin view, locate the mode toggle button in the toolbar
  2. Click the toggle button to switch between Video Mode videocam and Still Mode photo_camera
  3. The interface will update to reflect the current mode, with different filtering and sorting options available in each mode

Removing Stills

Dailies managers can remove stills they no longer want to share. In Still Mode, select the stills, then press the delete icon delete_forever, or right-click the selection and choose Remove. On a touch screen, long press a still to start selecting. With a mouse, right-click a still to remove just that one, or choose Select there to start selecting; after that, a click adds or removes a still, Shift-click selects every still in between, and right-clicking a selected still acts on all of them. Only the stills are removed: their clips stay where they are. If removing fails, the stills that could not be removed stay selected, so you can try again. A clip's thumbnail is its newest still. Remove that still and the thumbnail changes to the newest one left, or back to a frame of the clip once none are left. This can take a few minutes. This also works on projects synchronized with Silverstack, because stills are not part of the Silverstack library.

A removed still comes back only if you place its file in the _still folder again.

Permission Requirements

To access the stills feature:

  1. The project must have the "Stills" add-on activated (request this beta feature via live chat or email to odailies@ottomatic.io)
  2. Users must be granted the "Stills" permission by a dailies manager
  3. To download original stills, users must also have the "Download" permission
Setting Value
Format JPG (other formats will follow)
Resolution Typically matches source footage
Watchfolder _still
Naming Convention ClipName-Suffix.jpg

Note

When stills exist for a clip, they'll be used as the preferred thumbnails for that clip instead of auto-generated thumbnails.