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there are three additional data level settings that you can use to maintain data integrity, while at
the same time seeing the proper image as you work.
Video Monitoring Data Levels
Superficial problems may result if the settings used by your external display differ from the
settings you’re using to process data levels in Resolve. Accordingly, there is a Video/Full Level
setting in the Master Settings panel of the Project Settings (in the Video Monitoring section).
When you change this setting, the image being output to your external display should change,
but the image you see in your Viewer will not. That’s because this setting only affects the data
levels being output via the video interface connecting the Resolve workstation to your external
display. It has no effect on the data that’s processed internally by Resolve, or on the files written
when you render in the Deliver page.
There are two options:
Video: This is the correct option to use when using a broadcast display set to the Rec.
709 video standard (10-bit 64940).
Full: If your monitor or projector is capable of displaying “full range” video signals, and
you wish to monitor the full 10-bit data range (4–1023) while you work, then this is the
correct option to use.
It is imperative that the option you choose in DaVinci Resolve matches the data range the
external display is set to. Otherwise, the video signal will appear to be incorrect, even though
the internal data is being processed accurately by DaVinci Resolve.
Auto/Video/Full Level selection for monitoring
Deck Capture and Playback Data Level
There is a separate “Video/Data Level” setting that is specific to when you’re capturing from or
outputting to VTRs. This setting also affects the video signal that is output via the video
interface connecting the Resolve workstation to your VTR (which is usually also in the signal
chain used for monitoring). However, it only takes effect when you’re capturing from tape in the
Media page, or editing to tape in the Deliver page. If you never capture or output to tape, this
setting will never take effect.
This setting is found in the Deck Capture and Playback panel of the Project Settings.
The reason for a separate option for tape capture and output is that often you’d want to monitor
in one format (normally scaled Rec. 709), but output to tape in another (full range RGB 444).
Thisway, you can set up Resolve to accommodate this workflow, and then not have to worry
about manually switching your video interface back and forth.
There are two options:
Video: This is the correct option to use when you want to output conventional Rec. 709
video to a compatible tape format.
Full: This is the correct option to use when you want to output “full range” RGB 444
video to a compatible tape format.
Chapter – 7 Data Levels, Color Management, and ACES 220