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To enable or disable a highlight, do one of the following:
In the Viewer Options toolbar at the top of the Viewer, click the Highlight control, and
choose the type of highlight you want from the buttons that appear at the right.
Choose an option from the View > Highlight submenu; a regular Highlight is Shift-H.
On the T-bar panel of the DaVinci control panel, press HILITE.
To enable or disable a high-contrast highlight, do one of the following:
Choose View > Highlight > Highlight BW (Option-Shift-H).
On the T-bar panel of the DaVinci control panel, press SHIFT DOWN and then
pressHILITE.
To make high-contrast black and white the default highlight:
1 Open the Preferences > User > Color window.
2 Check “Mattes display high contrast black and white.
3 Click Save.
The next time you click the Highlight control in the Qualifier palette, or press HILITE
onthe DaVinci control panel, the high-contrast highlight will display.
Using Highlight to Solo Nodes
There’s one other use of the Highlight control, and thats to solo individual nodes in the
Viewerand video out, rather than outputting the sum of the entire node tree. For example, if
you’re trying to adjust a stack of nodes attached to a Parallel or Layer Mixer node, it’s difficult
tosee what you’re doing while adjusting one of the stack of nodes, because only the final result
is being output.
However, if you turn on Highlight while you’re selecting a node with no key, then only the
currently selected node is output, making it easy to view just one node as you adjust it. Just
make sure you turn Highlight off before moving on, or you may confuse yourself.
Showing Picker RGB Values
While you’re dragging the pointer over the Viewer and looking for a feature to sample, you can
enable a tooltip that shows you the RGB Value of the pixel under the pointer by right-clicking
the Viewer and choosing Show Picker RGB Value to toggle this feature on and off. When you
turn this feature on, the View > Show RGB Picker Values In submenu has options for displaying
either 8- or 10-bit tristimulus values.
The Color Picker tooltip that appears when
you turn on show RGB Picker Values
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