Plug in the card. Your Resolve project opens with the footage already in bins.
Plug in a card. ShotGrab copies, verifies, sorts and ejects. Automatically.
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Arm the project once
Pick the drive and the folder pattern, tick DaVinci Resolve, and leave it listening.
Cards go in, one after another
Two readers copy at the same time. Every file is checked against the card before it counts.
Resolve opens by itself
One question: the project name. ShotGrab opens Resolve, finds or creates the project and imports the footage.
You start cutting
Bins mirror your folders and point at verified files. Tomorrow's cards land in the same project, no duplicates.
And everything else ShotGrab does
No duplicates
Shots already in the project are skipped, so a card you plug in twice copies only what is new. No “-1” files, no doubled clips in Resolve.
SHA-256 on every file
Each file is checked while it copies and gets its final name only once the copy matches the card. Always on, no switch to turn it off.
Backup to more drives
Your fast drive fills first and the card is freed. The other drives (a second disk, a NAS) follow in the background, verified the same way.
Smart folders
Footage is sorted by date and camera on its own, from a path template you set once. Those folders become your Resolve bins.
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Does this work with the free version of DaVinci Resolve?
No. Resolve's external scripting API, which ShotGrab uses to create the project and import the media, is only available in DaVinci Resolve Studio. With the free Resolve, ShotGrab still copies, verifies and organizes your cards. You import the folder into Resolve yourself, and the folders-as-bins guide shows how.
What do I have to set up in Resolve?
One preference: Preferences › System › General › External scripting using › Local. Python 3 must be on the Mac too (python.org, Homebrew or the Xcode command line tools). ShotGrab does not change another app's preferences. In Settings › Automations it checks the connection and tells you what is still missing. Then you tick DaVinci Resolve on each project you want it for.
Does it import from the card or from my drive?
From your drive. The card is copied and verified first, and Resolve only ever sees the verified copy, so no project depends on a card you are about to put back in the camera.
What if the Resolve project already exists?
ShotGrab asks for the Resolve project name when the import ends (an empty answer reuses the last name for that project). It looks for that name in the whole project tree, opens it if it exists and creates it if not. Clips already in a bin, matched by file path, are skipped, so a second card does not create duplicates.
Can new footage keep arriving in the same project?
Yes. The first bin is the folder itself, which is what Resolve 19.1's Resync Media Files needs. One limit comes from Resolve, not ShotGrab: a bin that holds only subfolders and no clips of its own does not resync. We tested both cases against Resolve Studio, and wrote them up in the Resync guide.
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