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Use Gray Background
Choosing View > Show Gray Backgrounds in Viewer sets the empty area of the Viewer (if there
is any) to a lighter gray, making it easier to see which parts of the Viewer are black because of
blanking, and which parts are simply empty because of the way the image is zoomed
or panned.
Monitor Calibration
If you use Light Illusion’s LightSpace CMS or SpectraCal’s Calman for display calibration, you
can now use DaVinci Resolve as a sync-able pattern generator. This means you can use
DaVinci Resolve to output color patches, synchronized by LightSpace, to your display through
whichever video interface is connected to your computer. These synchronized color patches
will be analyzed by a monitor probe that’s also controlled by LightSpace, which stores the
probe data and compares it to the original color values of the output color values in order to
characterize that display.
To use this feature, you must first have a licensed copy of LightSpace CMS, which is a Windows
application. Synchronization depends on a wired or wireless LAN being available to connect
the LightSpace application with DaVinci Resolve.
To synchronize LightSpace CMS to DaVinci Resolve as a pattern generator client:
1 Open LightSpace on the Windows computer that’s running it.
2 When LightSpace is open, click the Network Manager button. A window appears
displaying the two network IP addresses used by LightSpace. Note these, and click the
Enable button.
The Network Manager dialog in LightSpace CMS
3 In DaVinci Resolve, choose Workspace > Monitor Calibration > LightSpace.
4 When the LightSpace dialog opens, enter the second of the two network IP addresses
LightSpace lists into the Remote Machine field, and make sure the Port number
matches. Then click the Connect button.
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