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DaVinci Resolve makes it easy to combine multiple Power Windows in different ways, to
intersect with one another and create even more sophisticated shapes. For example, multiple
windows can be added together, or one window can be used to cut out part of another window,
which saves you from the need to make complicated keyframing operations to animate that
window’s shape.
Multiple windows combined to isolate and mask the image
This section covers the use of Power Windows, how to create and modify them, as well as
howto combine multiple windows, and combine windows and qualifiers to create highly
specificisolations.
Adding Nodes with Windows
As with qualifiers, you must first add a node to a grade’s node tree before you begin windowing
a correction. This is because all of the windows within a particular node work together to limit
that node’s grade. As a reminder, any node can be changed from a primary operation that
affects the entire image, to a more targeted secondary operation, simply by turning on a
window, using a qualifier, or enabling an external matte.
Serial nodes showing the window on Node 2
If you don’t create a new node before creating a window, you’ll discover you’ve inappropriately
changed a primary correction into a secondary correction. If you create a new serial node, you’ll
then need to use the controls found within the Window palette to turn on a window to customize
for your purposes. However, there are also a set of commands you can use to add serial nodes
with a window already turned on, saving you a few clicks or button presses in the process.
To add a new node with a window already turned on:
Choose Color > Nodes > Add Serial Node + CPW (Option-C), or press the button of the
same name on the T-bar panel of the DaVinci control panel to create a new serial node
with a circular window.
Choose Color > Nodes > Add Serial Node + LPW (Option-Q), or press the button of the
same name on the T-bar panel of the DaVinci control panel to create a new serial node
with a linear window.
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