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Adding Nodes with Windows Turned On
There are also dedicated commands for adding serial nodes with Circular/Linear/Polygon/Curve
windows automatically turned on, for convenience.
To add a node to the tree with a Window automatically enabled:
Choose an item from the Nodes menu, or press the button on the T-bar panel of the
DaVinci Resolve control panel that corresponds to the following:
 Node + CPW: Circular Power window (Option-C)
 Node + LPW: Linear Power window (Option-Q)
 Node + PPW: Polygonal Power window (Option-G)
 Node + PCW: PowerCurve window (Option-B)
Whenever you add a node to a tree, it’s numbered consecutively to come after the next most
recent node you’d added, regardless of the order in which it appears in the node tree. For
example, if you’ve already added three nodes, and then you decide to add another node in
between Nodes 1 and 2, the new node will be Node 4, and the order of the nodes will be 1,
4, 2, and 3.
Deleting Nodes
If there’s a node that you no longer need, you can choose to remove it completely from the
node tree to remove its effect permanently.
To delete a node, do one of the following:
 Select a node, then press the Forward-Delete key.
 Right-click a node, and choose Delete Node.
 Using the DaVinci Resolve control panel, select any node, and press the DEL-CURRENT
button (on the T-bar panel).
After you’ve deleted a node, the node to the left and right of the node you deleted are
automatically connected so that the node tree is unbroken. Also, all the nodes in a tree are
renumbered after the deletion of any node, so there’s no discontinuity in node order. For
example, if you have three consecutively numbered nodes in a tree and you delete the second
one, the node that was formerly number 3 is renumbered to be 2.
Connecting and Disconnecting Nodes
For a node tree to work, every node in the Node Editor must be connected into a working node
tree, from the Source input, through each node in the tree, to the Node Tree output. Any
disconnected node will result in that clip’s grade being disabled. However, you may find the
need to disconnect some parts of a node tree in order to reconnect them in different ways.
To connect two disconnected nodes:
Click and drag a connection from the RGB or key output of one node to the
corresponding RGB or key input of another, and when the line highlights, release the
mouse button.
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