AI photo culling in DaVinci Resolve
Sollestro brings automatic, brief-driven photo selection to DaVinci Resolve. You describe what to keep in plain English, and Sollestro judges every frame and flags your keepers, right in Resolve. Resolve's own photo page gives you manual culling and keyword search, so you still decide each shot. The dedicated AI cullers decide for you, but only in Lightroom and Capture One. As far as we can find, Sollestro is the first tool to bring automatic AI selection into Resolve itself.
What Sollestro adds that Resolve does not
DaVinci Resolve 21 shipped a genuinely good photo page: you can import a shoot, star and reject shots, add colour labels, and search by keyword with IntelliSearch. All of that is manual or search. You do the culling. Sollestro is the part Resolve leaves out: it reads your brief, looks at every frame, and makes the selection for you.
How the selection works
Point Sollestro at your shoot and write a brief, for example "keep the sharp, well-lit frames, one strong shot per burst, drop the blinks and the test frames". Claude scores every image for content and quality, compares the frames in each burst, and returns a verdict. The keepers land as DaVinci Resolve flags and a Keepers bin, or as XMP colour labels and star ratings for Lightroom, Capture One and Bridge.
Sollestro, Resolve's photo page, and the Lightroom cullers
| Sollestro | Resolve 21 photo page | Lightroom cullers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic AI selection | Yes, from your brief | No, you cull by hand | Yes |
| Plain-English brief control | Yes | No | No, fixed criteria |
| Picks the best of each burst | Yes | No, you choose | Yes |
| Runs inside DaVinci Resolve | Yes | Yes, manual tools | No, Lightroom / Capture One |
| One tool for photo and video | Yes | Video, with manual photos | No |
Like Aftershoot or Imagen, but in Resolve and brief-driven
The dedicated cullers are mature and fast, and if you live in Lightroom they are a fine choice. Sollestro is different in two ways that matter. You steer the selection with a plain-English brief, so you get precise, per-shoot control instead of fixed criteria. And it works inside DaVinci Resolve, so if you shoot and edit, your selects sit in the same tool as your edit, on one licence you own.
Built for hybrid shooters
If you shoot both photo and video, Sollestro is one tool for both: it selects your photos and it builds your video edit from a brief. No second subscription, no switching apps, and your footage and images stay on your machine on your own Claude key.
Frequently asked questions
Can DaVinci Resolve cull photos automatically?
Resolve 21's photo page lets you cull by hand with star ratings, reject and colour labels, and search by keyword with IntelliSearch, but you make each decision. It does not judge your shots and pick the keepers for you. Sollestro adds that: it selects from your brief and flags the keepers automatically.
Does DaVinci Resolve have AI photo selection?
Resolve's AI for photos is search and organisation, like IntelliSearch, not automated selection. Sollestro is the automated, brief-driven selection layer, and as far as we can find it is the first tool to do this inside Resolve.
Is there an Aftershoot or Imagen for DaVinci Resolve?
Aftershoot, Imagen and Narrative automate culling but run in Lightroom and Capture One, not Resolve. Sollestro brings automated, brief-driven selection into Resolve itself, and it edits your video too.
Do I need DaVinci Resolve Studio for this?
To land verdicts as Resolve flags and a Keepers bin, yes. If you would rather stay in Lightroom or Capture One, Sollestro's Folder plus XMP mode writes colour labels and star ratings without Resolve at all.
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