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Undo and Redo in DaVinci Resolve
No matter where you are in DaVinci Resolve, Undo and Redo commands let you back out of
steps you’ve taken or commands you’ve executed, and reapply them if you change your mind.
DaVinci Resolve is capable of undoing the entire history of things you’ve done since creating or
opening a particular project. When you close a project, its entire undo history is purged. The
next time you begin work on a project, its undo history starts anew.
Because DaVinci Resolve integrates so much functionality in one application, there are three
separate sets of undo “stacks” to help you manage your work.
 The Media, Cut. Edit, and Fairlight pages share the same multiple-undo stack, which
lets you backtrack out of changes made in the Media Pool, the Timeline, the Metadata
Editor, and the Viewers.
 Each clip in the Fusion page has its own undo stack so that you can undo changes you
make to the composition of each clip, independently.
 Each clip in the Color page has its own undo stack so that you can undo changes you
make to grades in each clip, independently.
In all cases, there is no practical limit to the number of steps that are undoable (although there
may be a limit to what you can remember). To take advantage of this, there are three ways you
can undo work to go to a previous state of your project, no matter what page you’re in.
To simply undo or redo changes you’ve made one at a time:
 Choose Edit > Undo (Command-Z) to undo the previous change.
 Choose Edit > Redo (Shift-Command-Z) to redo to the next change.
 On the DaVinci control panel, press the UNDO and REDO buttons on the T-bar panel.
TIP: If you have the DaVinci control panel, there is one other control that lets you
control the undo stack more directly when using the trackballs, rings, and pots.
Pressing RESTORE POINT manually adds a memory of the current state of the grade to
the undo stack. Since discrete undo states are difficult to predict when you’re making
ongoing adjustments with the trackball and ring controls, pressing RESTORE POINT
lets you set predictable states of the grade that you can fall back on.
You can also undo several steps at a time using the History submenu and window. At the time
of this writing, this only works for multiple undo steps in the Media, Cut, Edit, and
Fairlight pages.
To undo and redo using the History submenu:
1 Open the Edit > History submenu, which shows (up to) the last twenty things
you’ve done.
2 Choose an item on the list to undo back to that point. The most recent thing you’ve
done appears at the top of this list, and the change you’ve just made appears with a
check next to it. Steps that have been undone but that can still be redone remain in this
menu, so you can see what’s possible. However, if you’ve undone several changes at
once and then you make a new change, you cannot undo any more and those steps
disappear from the menu.
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