Operations

Updating/Upgrading DaVinci Resolve

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Copy color grading from one clip to another

There are three ways:

1. Select the clip to copy from and press "⌘C", then select the clip to copy to and press "⌘V"

2. If the source clip is to the left, press  "SHIFT =". (American keyboard). If it is to the right, press "SHIFT -" (American keyboard)

3. Click on the clip you want to copy to and then middle click on the clip you want to copy from

White Balance monitoring

We can monitor color balance in two ways:

1. Using the Parade scopes

2. Using the RGB value of a pixel: with the qualifier cursor selected, right click on the viewer and select "Show picker RGB value". This is valuable when we are checking white or grey areas, as we can see if there is any particular color dominance and correct it.

Noise Reduction

You can reduce the noise by adding a new serial node, then on the Color page, click on the Motion Effects icon:

• "Temporal NR" select 3 Frame from the drop down. 

• "Mo. Est. Type" select "Better".

• "Motion Range" select "Medium". 

• "Temporal Threshold", move the Luma and Chroma sliders to the right to about 4.0-12.0

• "Spatial Threshold", unchain the Lumaand Chroma sliders and move only the "Chroma" slider to the right to about 4.0-10.0

You may need to sharpen a little bit your image to counter effect the "softening" of noise reduction. Check below section.

Sharpening

You can sharpen your image by adding a new serial node, then on Color page, click on the Blur icon:

• Set the "Radius" bar on 0.47, which is a sweet spot.

Tracking

To properly track and make manual corrections during the tracking, follow these steps:

1. Go to 'Color' page:

2. Create a new Serial node (Alt + S)

3. Select the 'Window (1)' section and click on a shape (a circle, for example (2)), and then move it (3) and resize it (4) as needed:

4. Select the 'Tracking (5)' section and choose 'Frame(6)' instead of 'Clip'. You can now start 'tracking (7)':

TIP: To make manual corrections of the placement of the shape, select a middle place between to track points and correct the placement of the shape:

Blur

• After finishing the tracking workflow explained above, you can now blur the area covered by the shape. Be sure that the 'Effects(1)' panel is activated, scroll down to 'Resolve FX Blur(2)' section and drag and drop the 'Gaussian Blur(3)' into the 'node(4)' where you created the tracking:

Speed up clip

To speed up a clip:

1.  Right click on the clip and select "Change clip speed"

2. Tick "Ripple timeline" box

3. Select anything above 100% on "Speed" bar

4. Click on "Change" button 

Two settings you may change

In Project Settings > General Options > Color

• Enable "Luminance mixer default to zero". It will detach the three color channels when adjusting parameters in the Scopes. The main (Y) curves line will stop working.

• Disable "Use S-curve for Contrast". It will allow you to go beyond the min and max limits in the Scopes.

Power Bins

Power Bins provide a way of importing and organizing media that you want to be available to all projects in DaVinci Resolve. Power Bins reside in a separate area of the Media Pool, with resizable dividers separating them from both the ordinary bins and Smart Bins areas. Power Bins are hierarchical, just like regular bins, and you can nest as many as you like, one inside another.

Like regular bins, Power Bins must be manually created by right-clicking within the Power Bins area and choosing Add Bin. The difference is that whatever clips you import into Power Bins are shared among all projects in a single-user installation, or all projects belonging to a particular user in a multi-user installation.

This makes Power Bins ideal for storing shared media that’s re-used often, such as stock video, sound effects, stills, and things like company slates and network graphics and animations that go into every show of a series.

To show or hide the Power Bin area of the Bin list, go to the Edit page choose Show Power Bins from the Media Pool option menu to toggle the visibility of all power bins on and off.

Save your Fusion Effects

1. Select all the nodes except MediaOut1

2. Right click in any of the selected nodes and select 'Settings -> Save As...'

Save your Fusion Effects containing media elements

1. When creating the Fusion composition, import each media file to a node 'I/O -> Loader' instead of dragging directly

2. Select all the nodes except MediaOut1

3. Right click in any of the selected nodes and select 'Settings -> Save As...'

Load your Fusion Effects

1. Navigate to the folder where you have your custom effects saved

2. Drag and drop the effect file into the Fusion page

3. Connect the whole composition to the MediaOut1

Rename your Fusion Effects

1. Move to the Media, Cut or Edit page

2. On the file explorer, click on the name of the effect in order to edit

Reuse your Fusion Effects (Macros)

1. Select all the nodes except MediaOut1

2. Right click in any of the selected nodes and select 'Macro -> Create Macro...'

3. Change the name on the 'Macro Name' text box

4. Tick the boxes of the features you want to be able to edit when reusing the effect

5. Click on the three dots on the upper right corner and select 'Save As...'

   • To have a macro appear in the Fusion page Effects Library Tools > Macros category, save it in the following locations:

— On macOS: Macintosh HD/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/ DaVinci Resolve/Fusion/Macros/

5. • To have a macro appear in the Fusion Studio Effects Library Tools > Macros category, save it in the following locations:

— On macOS: Macintosh HD/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/ Fusion/Macros/