User Manual

Playback Settings
These preferences let you improve realtime performance in DaVinci Resolve by disabling
specific UI features and optimizing the quality of some operations.
 Hide UI overlays: When using a single GPU for both display and CUDA, OpenCL,
or Metal processing, or if your display GPU is underpowered, or if you lack the
PCIebandwidth required for the currently specified resolution or frame rate, you may
be able to improvereal time performance by turning this option on. When enabled,
onscreen controls such as the cursor, Power Window outlines, and split-screen views
are disabled and hidden during playback. When playback is paused, all onscreen
controlsreappear.
 Minimize interface updates during playback: When enabled, gives priority to real
time performance during playback by reducing user-interface updates. This is helpful
when you’re creating complex grades on systems with low processing power, or when
working on projects at high resolutions.
 Performance Mode Automatic/Manual: A trio of radio buttons let you choose
between Automatic (default) and Manual (user selectable) behaviors when you turn
on Performance Mode in DaVinci Resolve, or you can turn Performance Mode Off
altogether. Set to Automatic, Performance mode automatically optimizes a variety of
operations in a bid to balance performance with the necessary level of image quality,
for fast onscreen performance while always maintaining the highest level of quality
for video output. Set to Manual, there are three different settings you can choose to
disable for instances where a particular performance tradeoff Resolve is making results
in an undesirably noticeable reduction in image quality in Performance Mode:
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Optimized Sizing: Relates to how image resizing is handled.
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Optimized Decode Quality: Relates to how clip resolution vs. timeline
resolutionishandled.
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Optimized Image Processing: Relates to how image processing
operationsarehandled.
Control Panels
The parameters in this panel let you customize the functionality of the DaVinci Control panel.
Some, but not all, of these settings apply to third party panels.
Panel Sensitivity
Lets you choose the orientation of red on the trackballs, how sensitive trackballs and rings are,
and how sensitive the qualifier knobs are.
 Classic DaVinci trackball alignment: When enabled, this checkbox sets all color
balance controls in DaVinci Resolve to the traditional orientation they’ve always used,
which is close to, but not exactly the same as, the vectorscope alignment of hues.
When disabled, the alignment of color balance controls is exactly the same as the
vectorscope alignment of hues, which is similar to how other color grading applications
work. You should choose the mode you’re most familiar with.
 Grading style: Controls the orientation of the trackballs relative to the corrections
they make.
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