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To use Generate LUT From Current Grade:
1 Import a duplicate of the trim_lut0.dpx file into an application in which to make an
adjustment.
2 Make a primary color adjustment of some kind, and save the file. Don’t overwrite the
original file.
3 Import the altered trim_lut0.dpx file into DaVinci Resolve, edit it into a timeline, open
the Color page, and select that clip.
4 Open the Color Management panel of the Project Settings, type a name for the LUT
you’re about to create into the Save LUT as field at the bottom of this panel, and click
Generate LUT.
A LUT is generated and saved into the LUT directory of your workstation. To see this LUT’s
effect on another clip, select another clip, right-click a node in the Node Editor, and choose the
LUT you created from the 3D LUT submenu.
General Options
This panel presents a selection of general preferences that affect the interface and operation of
DaVinci Resolve.
Conform Options
The settings in this group determine how clips are conformed to match imported project files
with source media on disk by extracting timecode, reel names, file names, file paths, and so on.
For more information on conforming and relinking, see Chapter 47, “Conforming and
Relinking Clips.
Use Timecode: Determines how DaVinci Resolve extracts timecode from referenced
media files. There are two options:
Embedded in the source clip: The preferred setting for most projects to conform
automatically and apply grades to the resulting clips. As long as DaVinci Resolve
can reference the timecode in either a media file’s timecode track, or in the header
metadata of the frames in a DPX sequence, you can use timecode to reconform
clips, or even completely change the media file to which a clip refers.
From the source clip frame count: This setting is useful if the source media lacks
timecode metadata, and all that’s available is a frame count that identifies frames via
sequentially numbered integer values.
Conform partial clips with black gaps: Inserts black frames whenever you conform
a clip that doesn’t contain all the required frames. When this option is selected,
partial clips are flagged in the Edit page with a P in the thumbnail of the clip that it is
lackingframes.
Automatically conform missing clips added to Media Pool: Enabled by default,
must be disabled to use collaborative workflow. When this checkbox is turned on,
DaVinci Resolve maintains a dynamic relationship between clips in the Media Pool and
those in a project’s various timelines. When this checkbox is on and you import clips
with matching timecode/file names/reel names to clips in a timeline, DaVinci Resolve
will automatically reconform all matching missing clips, and all other timeline clips that
have force conform turned off.
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