Adding A Power Window - Blackmagicdesign HyperDeck Installation And Operation Manual

To qualify a color:
1 Add a new serial node.
2 Open the 'qualifier' palette and make sure the 'color range' sample eyedropper tool
is selected.
3 Click on the color in your clip you want to affect.
Usually you'll need to make some adjustments to soften the edges of your selection
and limit the region to only the desired color. Click on the 'highlight' button to see your
selection.
4 Adjust the 'width' control in the 'hue' window to broaden or narrow your selection.
Experiment with the high, low and softness controls to see how to refine your selection. Now
you can make corrections to your selected color using the color wheels or custom curves.
Sometimes your selection can spill into areas of the shot you don't want to affect. You can easily
mask out the unwanted areas using a power window. Simply create a new window and shape it
to select only the area of color you want. If your selected color moves in the shot, you can use
the tracking feature to track your power window.

Adding a Power Window

Power windows are an extremely effective secondary color correction tool that can be used to
isolate specific regions of your clips. These regions don't have to be static, but can be tracked
to move with a camera pan, tilt or rotation, plus the movement of the region itself. For example,
you can track a window on a person in order to make color and contrast changes just to that
person without affecting his/her surroundings. By making corrections like this you can influence
the audience's attention on areas you want them to look at.
Use power windows to mask out areas you don't want to be
affected by the HSL qualifier secondary adjustments.
To add a power window to your clip:
1 Add a new serial node.
2 Open the 'window' palette and select a window shape by clicking on a shape icon.
Your selected window shape will appear on the node.
3 Resize the shape by clicking and dragging the blue points around the shape. The pink
points adjust the edge softness. You can position the shape by clicking the center
point and moving it to the area you want to isolate. Rotate the window using the point
connected to the center.
Using DaVinci Resolve 40