DaVinci Resolve CSV

Oropod imports metadata from CSV files exported by DaVinci Resolve. Upload the CSV files to your project’s storage together with the clips, and Oropod will import them automatically.

In Resolve, select your clips in the media pool and choose File > Export Metadata From > Selected Clips, or Media Pool to export everything.

  • Each row is matched to clips by the File Name column, ignoring the file extension and anything after it, so a row for A001C001_161024_R54M.mxf also matches A001C001_161024_R54M.mov and A001C001_161024_R54M_ProRes.mov
  • Scene, shot, take and camera are imported for navigation, and Keywords become tags
  • Write the shoot day as D12 2026-08-13 in Shoot Day to set the day number and the shoot date in one go, the same way Silverstack’s Custom 1 field works
  • The shoot date is the day the material belongs to. It stays the same when a shoot runs past midnight, and has no time and no time zone
  • Date Recorded is a different thing, the timestamp from the camera’s clock. Oropod falls back to its date when Shoot Day has no date, which is worth knowing: a clip rolled after midnight lands on the next day, and a camera clock that is off lands wherever it is off to
  • Resolve enforces no format on either field, so anything it can’t read as a date is shown as written but not used for navigation
  • Tag a clip Good Take to mark it as circled. Adding circled to its Keywords does the same, as does the Good Take column that older Resolve versions export
  • A clip tagged Rejected is not circled. It doesn’t cancel a circled keyword, so don’t use both on the same clip if you want it left out
  • The remaining columns (notes, crew, camera and image settings and more) are shown in the clip’s metadata view, with anything Oropod doesn’t recognise grouped under Other
  • Resolve decides which columns to export. Every field filled in on at least one clip is included, and fields left empty everywhere are not exported at all

Two things to watch for:

  • Resolve exports comma-separated CSV. Opening the file in Excel or Numbers and saving it again can turn it into a semicolon-separated file, which neither Resolve nor Oropod can read
  • Set Resolve’s interface language to English before exporting. Other languages export translated column names, which Oropod can’t match