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HDR Grading Using Color Wheels Palette Controls
When using various grading controls in the Color page to grade wide-latitude images for HDR
output, you may find it useful to enable theHDR Mode of the node you’re working on by
right-clicking that node in the Node Editor and choosing HDR Mode from the contextual menu
(only available in Resolve Studio).
Using a node’s contextual menu to put that node into HDR mode
This settingadaptsthat node’scontrols to work within an expanded HDR range. Practically
speaking, this makes it easier to work with wide-latitude signals using controls that operate by
letting you make adjustments at different tonal ranges such as Lift/Gamma/Gain, Custom
Curves, Soft Clip, and so on.
How to Use Color Balance Controls and Master Wheels
Each of the modes in the Color Wheels palette use the same controls, albeit in different ways.
This section explains, in a generic way, how to use these controls to make adjustments.
Color Balance controls provide a way to adjust all three color channels simultaneously with a
single move of the pointer, according to the mode that’s currently selected. These controls
correspond to the trackballs found on the DaVinci control panel, but there are a variety of
keyboard modifiers that let you make specific adjustments via the GUI.
To make adjustments using the Color Balance controls:
Click and drag anywhere within the color ring: Moves the Color Balance indicator
relative to its previous position, and rebalances the three color channels in whatever
range of image tonality is governed by that control. You don’t need to drag the Color
Balance indicator itself. This simulates the kind of relative control you get when using
a trackball to manipulate these parameters. As the Color Balance indicator moves,
the RGB parameters underneath change independently to reflect the independent
adjustments being made to each channel.
Shift-click and drag within the color ring: Jumps the Color Balance indicator to the
absolute position of the pointer, letting you make faster, more extreme adjustments to
the color balance governed by that control.
Double-click within the color ring: Resets the color adjustment without resetting the
corresponding contrast adjustment for that control.
Command-click and drag within the color ring: Adjusts YRGB contrast identically as if
you were dragging that control’s master ring.
Click the reset control at the upper-right of a color ring: Resets both the Color
Balance control and its corresponding master ring.
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