User Manual

Black Sun Highlight Correction
If your project uses media shot with one of the Blackmagic Cinema, Production, Pocket, or Ursa
cameras, and you have clips that exhibit so-called “black sun” artifacts, where bright onscreen
highlights appear with a dark magenta spot, a command exists to quickly and easily remove
these artifacts.
(Top) Black Sun artifact seen in image; (Bottom) Artifact
removed using Black Sun Highlight Correction
To remove black sun artifacts from Blackmagic camera footage:
Right-click the affected clip’s thumbnail in the Thumbnail timeline of the Color page,
and choose Black Sun Highlight Correction from the contextual menu.
The command for removing black sun artifacts
Using CDL Grades
Only available in DaVinci Resolve Studio.
There are two instances where primary grading adjustments may be applied to a clip outside of
adjustments that you make within the Node Editor of the Color page. If you import a CDL
(Color Decision List), then the CDL adjustment for each clip is made available to you via a
contextual menu command in the Thumbnail timeline of the Color page. For more information,
see Chapter 129, “Copying and Importing Grades Using ColorTrace.”
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