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August 2024 Operation Manual DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel...
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DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel gives you precise control over every color correction feature in DaVinci Resolve and feels amazing to use! We hope you use your DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel to create some of the world’s most dynamic film and television productions! We are keen to see what creative work you produce and to get your feedback on new features you would like to see us add to your advanced panel.
Using the DaVinci Resolve Numeric Entry Group 45 Advanced Panel 4 Keyframing Group 48 Three Panels Working Together 4 Auto Color Using the DaVinci Trackball panel 4 Resolve Advanced Panel 49 T-bar panel 4 To use Auto Grade to sample a feature 50 Search Dial panel 5...
Using the DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel The DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panels make it easier to make more adjustments in the same amount of time than using a mouse, pen, or trackpad with the on‑screen interface. This is the ultimate grading panel to give you the speed for long and complex grading sessions and to make a lasting impact on clients visiting your suite or looking in on you as they’re...
These soft control displays also provide real‑time feedback where you can see the relative settings of each variable control knob at a glance Connecting the Davinci Resolve Advanced Panel The smaller two panels connect to the Center panel via an integrated USB hub, and the Center panel connects to your workstation via USB 2.
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T‑bar panel, for which the primary function of each button gives access to the main pages of DaVinci Resolve you might want to switch among (this is particularly useful if you’re hiding the bottom button bar of the user interface in order to get more screen real estate while working), while the SHIFT UP and SHIFT DOWN functions let you access specific GUI panels or page customization options that are related to those pages.
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The default lit keys of the Search Dial panel Pressing SHIFT DOWN highlights all keys with alternate SHIFT DOWN functions so you can instantly see which keys are selectable. Using Fixed Keys and Shift Up/Shift Down Functions...
Soft Menus, Including Soft Keys and Soft Rotary Controls Each of the three panels have soft controls. These controls appear on top of an LCD display that provides a top‑most two‑line title/description of each soft menu’s main function, along with two lines of text above each soft rotary control or soft key that describes that control’s specific function.
Instead, you’re best off referring to the Color page documentation in the Color Page section of the DaVinci Resolve User Manual to figure out what each identically named control is used for. All you need to know for now is that the soft controls change depending on which palette is selected, the mode of each palette, and the operation being performed.
The focus of the Center panel is four trackballs that work as color balance controls in various palettes of the DaVinci Resolve Color page. Their functionality depends on which palette is currently open. Each trackball has a surrounding control ring that has no end stop in either direction, letting you do continuous rotary adjustment.
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However, keep in mind that whichever color controls the trackballs are assigned to, the topmost soft controls on the Trackball palette can be switched to work with other palettes, such as the Motion, Curves, or Qualifier palettes, for example. This means you can adjust the controls of a second palette while simultaneously making color and contrast adjustments with the trackballs and ring controls.
This makes it faster to switch among different sets of controls as you work, and frees up additional buttons on the T‑bar panel to do other things, adding to the utility of the DaVinci Resolve Advanced panel. The first nine fixed keys above the trackballs work together to provide palette and mode switching.
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Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down LOG/S3D (ALL) Resets all (LOG) Opens the (S3D) Opens the Stereo YRGB adjustments Log mode of the 3D Palette for Stereo Primaries palette 3D timelines PRIMARY/>SDR (LEVEL) Resets master (PRIMARY) Opens the (>SDR) Opens the level adjustments, Color Wheels mode (Lift, Dolby Vision™...
The Tools Button A TOOLS button at the bottom center of the left‑most trackball provides fast access to a soft menu that provides addition options using the soft controls. This is a future‑proofing feature and exposes no additional functionality at the time of this writing. The TOOLS button under the left‑most trackball The Fourth Trackball Depending on which palette you’re using in the Color page, the rightmost (fourth) trackball can...
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Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down RGB/ADJ WIN/SDI ZM (RGB) Resets red, (ADJ WIN) Lets the (SDI ZM) Toggles green, and blue channel trackball adjust the “Gang viewer zoom adjustments, only position of the selected with video output” leaving master level window, while the on and off, letting the adjustments alone...
Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down GLOBAL OFFSET – (GLOBAL OFFSET) In the – Primaries palette, this sets the fourth trackball to adjust Offset color balance and Master levels. In the HDR palette, this sets the fourth trackball to adjust the Globals controls.
On the left side From top to bottom, the rotaries control Y‑only luminance Gain, Gamma, and Lift settings of the Color Wheels and Color Bars modes of the Primaries palette that control lift, gamma, and gain. If you have any other palettes or modes open, using these three knobs will continue to affect the Lift, Gamma, and Gain controls of the currently selected node.
The T-bar Panel The T‑bar panel, typically located on the left for a right‑handed colorist, has an LCD display with four variable controls and nine soft keys. The lower section of the panel houses the T‑bar control and six groups of hard keys. Each group and their keys are described below. T‑bar Panel on the left Pages and Layout Group The Pages and Layout control group at left provides navigation to a number of the GUI pages...
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Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down STORAGE/MEDIA/ (STORAGE) Opens and (MEDIA) Opens (METADATA) Opens and METADATA closes the Disk Storage the Media page closes the Metadata panel of the Media page Editor on any page it appears INSP/CUT/MEDIA (INSP) Opens and closes (CUT) Opens the (MEDIA) Opens and the Inspector on any...
Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down OFX/SCOPES/INFO (OFX) Opens and closes (SCOPES) Opens and (INFO) Opens the the OFX Library/Settings closes the Video Scopes Clip Info palette panel on the Color window page; when an effect is applied to the current node, toggles between the Library (list of OFX) and Settings (for the...
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Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down ACTUAL/DISPLAY (ACTUAL) Sets the size (DISPLAY MODE) Toggle (FIT) Fits the entire MODE/FIT of the image in the Display Mode switches image into the current Viewer to 100% so you between hiding and size of the Viewer, can see the actual size showing the Viewer to zooming down or up...
Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down FLAGS OP/A/C MODE/ (FLAGS OP) Toggles the (A/C MODE) Toggles (SAFE) Toggles title safe SAFE display of clip flags on between A‑sort and on and off in the Viewer; SDI output C‑sort mode in the options for title safe Thumbnail Timeline;...
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Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down ESCAPE/SAVE/ (ESCAPE) The (SAVE) Issues the Save (SAVE AS) Opens the SAVE AS Escape key on a command for the current Save Current Project computer keyboard project; this is identical As dialog, so you can to pressing Command‑S save a duplicate of the currently open project;...
Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down GRADE/PASTE/ (GRADE) Pastes the (PASTE) Pastes (APPEND) Appends APPEND entire copied grade to whichever node was every node of the entire overwrite the previous the current node copied grade after the grade; if you copied a when the grade was last node of the current group grade, the Pre‑...
Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down –/CLIP ATTRIB/ – (CLIP ATTRIB) Opens (DETAILS) Toggles the DETAILS the Clip Attributes floating Clip Details window for the currently window open and selected clip closed, with which you can see various clip and grade properties for reference –/FIND IN M/POOL/ –...
Utility Group This group of keys, in the center of the T‑bar panel, includes commands for tracking and stabilization, enabling/disabling grades and nodes and OFX, and bypassing Fusion effects and Grades. These keys can also function as a numeric keypad for future features. The Utility keys provide controls for tracking and stabilization, as well as disabling and bypassing various grading controls.
Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down 3/TRACK FORWARD/ (3) The three key; can be (TRACK FORWARD) (PASTE) Copies track PASTE used in conjunction with Initiates motion tracking data to the currently SELECT NODE to jump forward for the currently selected window to a particular node selected window –/STEP REVERSE/...
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Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down 7/STABILIZE/BYPASS (7) The seven key; can (STABILIZE) Initiates (BYPASS) Toggles image be used in conjunction image stabilization for stabilization off and then with SELECT NODE to the current clip, using on again, so you can jump to a particular node the current settings in compare the stabilized...
Node Editor of the Color page. The DaVinci Resolve Color page is a node‑based grading system, where the adjustments you make appear as nodes in the Node Editor. Each node contains one or more adjustments that work together.
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Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down –/NODE+POLYGON/ – (NODE+POLYGON) (+POLY) Turns on the +POLY Adds a Corrector polygon window for the node in serial with currently selected node. a polygon window automatically enabled for fast isolation; you can begin drawing a polygon immediately in the Viewer.
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Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down +SPLIT/APPEND (+SPLIT) Adds a Splitter (APPEND LINEAR) – LINEAR/– node to your node Appends a Corrector tree, which splits the node in serial with a red, green, and blue linear window enabled image channels into at the end of your separate outputs for node tree...
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Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down ADD PARALLEL/+FIRST – (ADD PARALLEL) Adds (+FIRST) Adds a a Corrector node in Corrector node before parallel underneath the the currently selected currently selected node, parallel node, so that with both connected to a both nodes sit within the multi‑input Parallel Mixer same parallel branch of...
The T-Bar Control The T‑bar control is a vertical lever that you can push and pull up and down. Functioning as a fader, it’s mainly used to control the mix or wipe of a reference image against the current clip being evaluated.
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Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down MENU/SPLIT SCREEN/ (MENU) Press to show a (SPLIT SCREEN) (CLEAN) Toggles CLEAN row of Split Screen view Toggles a split screen Video Clean Feed on options in the Trackball comparison on and and off (Workspace > panel soft buttons, off, with which to Video Clean Feed)
The Search Dial Panel The Search Dial panel, typically located on the right for a right‑handed colorist, has an LCD display with four variable controls and nine soft keys. The lower section of the panel houses the Jog/Shuttle knob and six groups of hard keys. Each group and their keys are described below. Serch Dial Panel Memories Group The first group of keys is the Memories group.
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The letter keys in this group are called “memories” or MEMs, which save stills and grades that you can quickly apply to another clip to overwrite its previous grade. There are 26 MEMs, labeled with letters from A to Z. To apply a MEM to another clip, simply press the letter corresponding to the MEM with the grade you want to apply.
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Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down U/E/M (U) Loads or saves (E) Loads or saves (M) Loads or saves memory U memory E memory M V/F/N (V) Loads or saves (F) Loads or saves (N) Loads or saves memory V memory F memory N W/G/O...
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Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down -1/NEXT PAGE (–1) Copies grade from (NEXT PAGE) – the clip just before Selects the next the current clip to Album in the Album list overwrite the grade in of the Gallery the current clip NONE/USE SRC TC/ (NONE) Changes the (USE SRC TC)
(NEXT CLIP) Not yet SCENE/UNDO/ (SCENE) Opens the (UNDO) Triggers NEXT CLIP Scene Detect Window one step of undo; implemented at the time DaVinci Resolve of this writing supports unlimited steps of undo SPLIT/REDO/JOIN (SPLIT) Splits one (REDO) Triggers (JOIN) The reverse of clip into two at the frame one step of redo;...
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Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down SHOW/FLAG/CLIP (SHOW) Press to show (FLAG) Press to show a "(CLIP) Press to show a a row of flag colors in row of colors with which row of colors with which the Trackball panel soft to flag the current clip in to color code the current buttons with which to...
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Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down ORIG MEM – (ORIG MEM) If you – select a graded clip, then change the grade and decide you don’t like the change, press ORIG MEM to return to original state (or memory) of that clip when you first selected it.
Jog/Shuttle Control The Jog/Shuttle control is actually two controls in one. The Shuttle control is the outer knob, which rocks to the left and right and controls real‑time or fast playback. The Jog control is an inner wheel that spins freely and controls the playhead in slow motion, a frame or two at a time. Jog: The Jog control is an inner wheel that spins freely.
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Shift Up Primary Function SHIFT UP – (SHIFT UP) Enables use of any of the SHIFT UP key functions at the top of various keys SHIFT DOWN – (SHIFT DOWN) Enables use of any of the SHIFT DOWN key functions at the bottom of various keys FLAG/PREV STILL (FLAG) Go to previous flagged still;...
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Shift Up Primary Function MARKER/NEXT FRAME (MARKER) Moves the playhead (NEXT FRAME) Moves the playhead forward to the next existing marker forward a single frame in the Timeline START/PREV CLIP (START) Moves the playhead to the (PREV CLIP) Selects the first frame of first frame of the current clip the previous clip END/NEXT CLIP...
Numeric Entry Group On the center right‑hand side of the Search Dial panel is the Numerical Entry key group. Here you will find numbers 0 to 9 and associated keys for entering timecode and clip numbers. You will notice the numbers you type are displayed in a scratchpad area at the bottom of the Keyframe palette.
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Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down –R/7/CHR LT –R (Minus Red in (7) The seven key (CHR LT) Loads P/LITE mode) the Chroma Light Qualifier preset –G/8/CHR DK –G (Minus Green in (8) The eight key (CHR DK) Loads P/LITE mode) the Chroma Dark Qualifier preset –B/9/LT DARK...
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Shift Up Primary Function Shift Down –C/1/GREEN –C (Minus Cyan (1) The one key (GREEN) Loads the or Green+Blue in Green Qualifier preset P/LITE mode) –M/2/YELLOW –M (Minus Magenta (2) The two key (YELLOW) Loads the or Red+Blue in Yellow Qualifier preset P/LITE mode) –Y/3/RED –Y (Minus Yellow...
Keyframing Group The Keyframe keys are on the bottom right‑hand side of the Search Dial panel. The functions are replicated on the T‑bar panel. On the bottom right of the Color page is the Keyframe timeline for the current clip in the Timeline. The Keyframe group of keys is used in association with the Keyframe timeline and controls the selection of keyframes for the start and end of dynamic transitions of the grade.
However, if you crave a bit more control over how the automatic color adjustment is made, and you have a DaVinci control panel, you can use the cursor to choose which color values to sample when making an automatic color balancing and contrast adjustment. It’s like a cross between the Auto Color control and the White and Black Point controls found in the GUI.
User Preferences, via two checkboxes named “Use Legacy Auto Color/Shot Match.” With these enabled, DaVinci Resolve looks for the darkest levels in the image to neutralize the RGB color balance in the blacks, and the brightest levels to neutralize the RGB color balance in the highlights.
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GREEN CURVE, and BLUE CURVE soft keys. You also have the option of using the fourth trackball from the left to adjust individual control points on curves to any position you like. This works for all curves in DaVinci Resolve that have control surface mappings.
Soft Clipping Adjustments The soft clipping controls can also be manipulated using the DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel, which provides separate controls for ganged and individual color channels. To open the soft clipping control on the DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel: Press the CURVES key on the Trackball panel, then press the SOFT CLIP soft key.
ENTER key. As you enter timecode on the Color page, the timecode values you type appear in the lower right‑hand corner of the DaVinci Resolve window, to the left of the Project Manager and Project Settings buttons.
Adding Tracking Points in Interactive Mode The DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel has a full set of tracking controls. However, there’s also the ability to manually add tracking points one by one while in Interactive Object Tracking mode. To add a single tracking point: Select a window you want to track.
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To use the Scroll mode: Move the playhead to the clip to which you potentially want to copy a new grade. You can use the PREV SCENE and NEXT SCENE buttons to move around neighboring clips, or you can use the number keys to jump to a specific clip number or timecode value of the Timeline.
Advanced Panel DaVinci Resolve has a mechanism for rippling specific changes made to one clip to a range of other clips in the Timeline. This is only possible using the controls of the DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel. The general idea of the ripple function is that you select a clip, make a change to one or more nodes in its grade, and then ripple that change to a range of other clips.
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Now, you must define the range of clips you want to ripple to using the number pad on the Search Dial panel. The following combinations will work: An absolute range of clips is defined by entering two clip numbers separated by a comma.
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Now, the adjustment you made in step 4 is applied to the designated range of clips. Admittedly, that was a long and detailed procedure when spelled out in text, but the actual button sequences are straightforward once you put them together. Here are some examples of button sequences that ripple an adjustment you’ve just made in different ways: “10, 15”...
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ISM radio wave radiated devices. Davinci Resolve Speed Editort is class A digital device. Operation of this product in a residential area, it may cause radio frequency disturbance, in this case the user will be required to take appropriate measures.
No operator serviceable parts inside product. Refer servicing to your local Blackmagic Design service center. The DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor contains a single cell Lithium battery. Keep lithium batteries away from all sources of heat, do not use the product in temperatures greater than 40°C.
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