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Color Controls Covered in This Chapter
The Left Palette panel contains four palettes that relate to color and contrast adjustments in
different ways. The controls found within these palettes provide the foundation for any grade,
and this chapter covers how you use the Camera Raw, Color Wheels, and RGB Mixer palettes.
For more information on the Motion Effects palette, see Chapter 134, “The Motion Effects and
Blur Palettes.
Primary color adjustment palettes in the Left Palette panel
NOTE: If you’re using DaVinci Resolve with a computer monitor that’s smaller than
1920x1080, then the Left and Center Palette panels are consolidated into a single
panel, and all the buttons in the Palette toolbar appear together.
Camera Raw
When a timeline uses clips that are linked to camera raw source media recorded from cameras
from Blackmagic Design, RED, ARRI, Sony, and Vision Research, all clips in raw media formats
are initially debayered using the settings found in the Camera Raw panel of the Project Settings.
However, if there are individual clips that you want to apply different raw settings to, for example
altering the ISO to pull more detail out of the highlights or shadows, then you can use the
controls found in the Camera Raw palette to individually alter the parameters found within.
The Camera Raw palette showing the available parameters for Blackmagic RAW media.
The Camera Raw palette is automatically set to the mode (seen within the Mode drop-down
menu) that is appropriate to the clip that’s currently selected. If the current clip is not in a raw
format, then the parameters within the Camera Raw palette are disabled.
All settings that currently populate the Camera Raw palette are also accessible from the DaVinci
control panel.
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