User Manual

Ganging and Unganging Soft Clip Controls
Soft clipping can be simultaneously applied to all three color channels by enabling the Ganging
control (on by default), or you can disable Soft Clip ganging to individually adjust each channel.
For example, using soft clipping on individual channels can be useful for legalizing RGB
out-of-gamut errors for channels that over- or undershoot your QC standards.
To disable Soft Clip ganging and edit soft clipping for individual color channels:
Click the channel control button corresponding to the color channel you want to edit,
and then drag the sliders to create the desired adjustment.
To re-enable Soft Clip ganging:
Click the Ganging control to the left of the Soft Clip channel controls.
TIP: Applying too much soft clipping to individual color channels may add an unwanted
color tint to the corresponding highlights or shadows of an image. To avoid this, use
the soft clipping parameters with ganging enabled to clip all three color
channels equally.
Soft Clip Controls
Whether all channels are ganged or not, soft clipping is controlled via two sliders and two
additional parameters for each color channel.
High
The High Clipping Point slider lets you adjust the maximum signal level above which the signal
is clipped. Any pixels above the clipping level are made equal to the clipping level.
The High Clipping Point defaults to a digital level of 1023 relative to the DaVinci Resolve internal
video scopes. Dragging this slider to the left causes the highlights of the image to clip at a
lower level, resulting in lower, dimmer maximum levels.
Selecting and adjusting the high clip
RGB Parade displays the clipped image
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