Making Photo Clip Durations longer

I have been working in Resolve since 2018 and trying to make photo collages. I thought SURELY with the 18.5 release, they would get the clip duration issue fixed. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make it so that when I select all of the photos I want to change in duration to LONGER, I am able to do that.

THE ISSUE:
No matter what I have tried, when I
Select all of the photos that are (for example) 5 seconds in length, Right Click --> "Change Clip Duration" ---> "10s" --> "Change". All this does is change the duration of the 1st selected clip.

This is beyond frustrating. Most of the time, I just give up and go back to Camtasia because it is much easier than Davinci. Not good that a junk software like Camtasia works better than Davinci and that one simple little issue could make a person HAVE to switch to junk software.

PLEASE MAKE THIS CHANGE ASAP!!!!!

[Peter Chamberlain]

Please refrain from shouting Kelli (all caps)

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In PREFERENCES which you will find in the DaVinci Resolve heading at the top left of the GUI, go to EDITING and the USER tab, scroll down, and adjust the Standard Still duration from the default of 5 seconds.

Which won't affect the current clips...

Yeah, that's weird. I would fully expect the right click to work.

Here's how to do it on the timeline:

1. In select mode (A) lasso all the clips on the timeline (or select the ones you want to affect)
2. Hit the T key to switch to trim mode
3. CMD + D to open the clip duration dialog
4. Enter new duration and click OK
5. Hit A to exit back out of trim mode


Seems that in trim mode, all selected clips will have their duration updated and will move the other clips up/down the timeline so as not to overwrite or leave gaps.

Nice find, Steve!

I tried it without step 1 and 5, going into Trim before selecting, and it didn't work.

I stumbled upon this by chance trying to get it to work. Hopefully I'll remember this the next time I need to increase the duration of multiple clips, lol.

Which won't affect the current clips...

But at least they will have longer clips to start with.

Here's how to do it on the timeline:

1. In select mode (A) lasso all the clips on the timeline (or select the ones you want to affect)
2. Hit the T key to switch to trim mode
3. CMD + D to open the clip duration dialog
4. Enter new duration and click OK
5. Hit A to exit back out of trim mode


Seems that in trim mode, all selected clips will have their duration updated and will move the other clips up/down the timeline so as not to overwrite or leave gaps.

Thank you for the help on this--very, very helpful!!!