User Manual

Camera Raw
This panel contains groups of parameters that correspond to every camera raw media format
that’s supported by DaVinci Resolve. Using these parameters in the Camera Raw panel, you can
override the original camera metadata that was written at the time of recording, and make
simultaneous adjustments to all camera raw clips using the “project” raw settings.
These settings are covered in detail in Chapter 5, “Camera Raw Settings.”
Capture and Playback
All settings in this panel let you define the functionality of capture and playout to tape using
device controlled VTRs connected to your Resolve workstation via the connected video
capture and output interface. For more information on deck capture, see Chapter 16, “Ingesting
from Tape.” For more information on video output to tape, see Chapter 168, “Delivering to Tape.”
Deck Settings
These settings affect both capture and playback when using the tape ingest options of the
Media page, or the tape output options of the Deliver page.
 Video capture and playback: You can choose the video format (frame size and frame
rate) with which to output to tape from this drop-down menu. HD timelines can be
downconverted to SD, and SD timelines can be upconverted to HD using the format
conversion of your DeckLink card.
 Use left and right eye SDI: A checkbox that enables supported video interfaces to
ingest and output muxed stereoscopic video when used with supported VTRs, such
as HDCAM SR decks with 4:2:2 x 2 mode. (When muxed stereoscopic signals are
ingested, each eye is separated into individual left-eye and right-eye image files.)
This parameter only appears when your hardware is set up appropriately.
 Video connection operates as: Selects between the available signal options: Use
4:4:4 SDI and Enable Single Link. Which options are available depend on which video
capture card you are using.
 Data Levels: Lets you specify the data range (normally Video or Full) that’s used when
ingesting from or outputting to tape. This option switches the data range of the signal
output by your video capture card, but only during capture from tape in the Media
page, or output to tape in the Deliver page. When capture or output is not currently
occurring, your video capture card goes back to using the identically named data range
setting in the Master Project Settings pane, which governs how you monitor the signal
being output on an external broadcast display or projector.
 Video bit depth: Choose the bit depth that corresponds to the capability of your deck.
Depending on your workstation’s configuration, you can choose between 8-bit and 10-
bit. Outputting to 10-bit is more processor intensive, but higher quality for compatible
devices, and is the default setting.
 Use deck autoedit: If supported by your video deck, this is the best method to record
video to the deck, as it enables the deck to roll the edit using the specified preroll, and
control the edits via serial device control. If this checkbox is turned off, a basic edit On/
Off mode is used by the deck, with the potential for frame inaccuracies if the “Non auto
edit timing” setting is not properly adjusted.
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