User Manual

Using Highlight to See
What You’re Isolating
The Highlight control at the top of the Viewer (revealed by turning on Viewer Options in the
Viewer’s Option menu) lets you overlay a representation of the key you’re creating over the
current image in the Viewer. Overlays are also mirrored to your video output, so they’ll show up
on an external display as well, in the event that you’re hiding the onscreen Viewer.
There are two types of highlights with which you can evaluate a qualification you’re creating.
Each is useful for different tasks.
 Flat-Gray: The default highlight that DaVinci Resolve uses shows the selected portion
of the image with the original colors, and the unselected portion of the image with a
flat gray. It is useful for seeing the subject you’re isolating even while you’re adjusting
the Qualifier controls, which lets you also see the color or contrast adjustments you’re
applying at the same time.
Oranges qualified and highlighted
 High-Contrast: Pressing Option-Shift-H, you can show what’s called a “high-contrast”
highlight, which should be familiar to you if you’ve used other color correction
applications and plug-ins; it’s a more typical display wherein the selected portion of
the image is white, and the unselected portion of the image is black. The high-contrast
highlight is useful in situations where you need to eliminate holes in a key, or evaluate
how “chattery” a key is since irregularities are easier to spot when divorced from the
original image.
High-Contrast B&W highlighting
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