User Manual

To add a new playhead to the Mini-Timeline:
Choose a playhead from the Color > Active Playheads submenu. That playhead will be
placed at the same position as the original playhead, but it is now the one that is
selected, so dragging the new playhead to a new position of the Mini-Timeline will
reveal the original playhead you were using.
To select another playhead to view:
 Click on the top handle of any playhead to select it, making that the currently active
playhead controlled by the transport controls. By default, no keyboard shortcuts are
mapped to the four playheads that are available, but you can create a custom keyboard
mapping that you can use to quickly switch among them.
 Using the DaVinci Advanced Control Panel, you can use the A, B, C, and D buttons on
the jog/shuttle panel to switch to the playhead you want to control.
To eliminate all additional playheads from the Mini-Timeline:
Choose Color > Active Playheads > Reset Playheads.
Show Current Clip With Handles
If you’re working on a project that’s part of a round-trip workflow, and you know you’ll be
rendering handles for each clip, it can be useful to temporarily expose these handles for the
current clip that you’re grading, so you can easily apply tracking or keyframing effects to the full
frame range of each clip.
To show or hide clip handles in the Mini-Timeline of the Color page:
Choose View > Show Current Clip With Handles.
(Left) The current clip in the Mini-Timeline,
(Right) The same clip shown with Show Current Clip With Handles enabled
While this mode is enabled, Unmix is turned on and cannot be disabled, in order to let you view
the overlapping handles of each clip clearly. The duration of handles that are exposed is
defined by the Default Handles Length parameter of the Editing panel in the User Preferences.
Clip Handles can be shown or hidden at any time.
Thumbnail Info
The thumbnails make it easy to find the clips you’re looking for visually, and they always show
the media as it’s currently graded. The most obvious piece of information is the frame that’s
used for each clip’s thumbnail. If you feel that a particular clip’s thumbnail isn’t representative of
its content, you can change it.
To change the current thumbnail:
Move the pointer over a thumbnail, drag to the left or right to scrub through the clip, and
stop when you find a frame you want to use as the new thumbnail.
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