User Manual

UI Settings
A collection of operational preferences.
 Language: A Language drop-down at the top lets you specify which language the
DaVinci Resolve user interface displays. DaVinci Resolve currently supports English,
Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Russian.
 Reload last working project when logging in: Automatically reopens the last project
a user had open whenever that user logs back into DaVinci Resolve. This checkbox
can only be enabled when editing a preset configuration in the Presets panel, so that
it’s always on no matter which project you open as long as you’re using that particular
preset. Ideally, enable it for your User config (if you’re using a multi-user configuration
of DaVinci Resolve) or your Guest Default config (if you’re using a single-user
configuration).
 Show focus indicators in the User Interface: Lets you enable or disable a red line at
the top of each panel that indicates which panel currently has focus.
 Use gray background for user interface: By default, DaVinci Resolve uses a blue-gray
UI background, intended to provide a more attractive experience for users focused
on the less color-critical aspects of DaVinci Resolve, namely editing. Turning this
checkbox on switches DaVinci Resolve to a totally neutral, desaturated gray UI, which
can be valuable as a point of reference for colorists concerned about the blue-gray UI’s
potential to bias the eye in the dark environment of the grading suite.
 Use gray background in viewers: When turned on, sets the background of all viewers
to gray, making it easier to evaluate image blanking or minor sizing adjustments than
with the default dark background.
 Resize image in viewer to square pixels: This control will select between using a
square or non-square pixel aspect ratio within the Viewer. This is important when
working with SD images which do not have a square pixel aspect ratio.
 Delay viewer display by X frames: When turned on, you can enter a number of frames
to delay DaVinci Resolve Viewers as they appear on your computer displays so that
the image on your computer display better syncs up with the same image shown on
external displays that are delayed due to various signal processing processes.
 Output single field when paused: This setting will reduce flicker when grading using
a computer monitor or when working with interlaced material. Ordinarily, when viewing
interlaced material in Stop or Pause mode, field one is displayed followed by field two.
Depending on the image, this can result in a flicker on the display. When this option
is enabled, only field one will be shown on the monitor when playback is paused;
however both fields will be shown when the clips are played.
 Stop playback when a dropped frame is detected: When enabled, sets
DaVinci Resolve to stop playback whenever a frame is dropped on output, to warn you
that there are performance issues on your workstation. This is particularly useful when
you’re outputting to tape.
 Stop renders when a frame or clip cannot be processed: When enabled, this will halt
a render if DaVinci Resolve detects an error in the encoding, rather than continue to try
to process it.
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