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Highlight: Makes it easy to selectively retrieve blown-out highlight detail in high
dynamic range media by lowering this parameter, and achieves a smooth blend
between the retrieved highlights and the unadjusted midtones for a naturalistic result.
Saturation: Increases or decreases overall image saturation. At higher values, colors
appear more intense, while at lower values, color intensity diminishes until, at 0, all
color is gone, leaving you with a grayscale image.
Hue Rotation: Rotates all hues of the image around the full perimeter of the color
wheel. The default setting of 50 shows the original distribution of hues.
Luminance Mix: Lets you control the balance between YRGB contrast adjustments
you’ve made using the Master Wheels or ganged Custom curves, and Y-only
adjustments to contrast made using the Y channel Lift/Gamma/Gain controls of the
Primaries palette or the unganged Luma curve.
Additional detail can be found in the Color page basics chapter and each of these operations
can be seen on the Primary palette of the user interface.
Control Buttons
On the right hand side of the trackballs there are three groups of control buttons.
The top group includes:
Grab Still: At any time when you are grading, selecting the Grab Still key automatically
grabs a full resolution frame from the Timeline and attach the node graph metadata for
later display and use.
Undo: Undo is one of the favorite keys of colorists. Try any grade, and if you don’t like
it, simply undo. There are multiple steps of undo available within the page.
Redo: Sometimes you hit undo once too many times. Redo will put back into effect the
last item you undid. As with undo, there are multiple levels of redo.
Play Still: Using Play Still, DaVinci Resolve will automatically display a wipe on the
Viewer between the current scene and the current still. You can use your mouse on
the viewer to move the wipe position. Selecting Play Still a second time will toggle this
mode off.
Prev Mem: Each clip, by default, has a memory of its grade, sizing, and so on, which
is saved in reference to the source timecode. If you are grading a clip and move from
it to another clip, the grade is saved automatically in a memory for that clip. If you
come back to the clip and make a change to the grade, then decide you don’t like
the change, select Prev Mem to return to the previous grade status you found when
selecting the clip.
Reset: This key resets the grade of the current node. Holding down this key deletes all
nodes in the clip except for the first node and resets the grades to default and clears
the keyframes.
Loop: You may wish to repeat a review of a grade of a clip, or a selection of clips on the
Timeline; this Loop toggle key selects or deselects the Loop operation.
Bypass: This toggle selects the node graph bypass mode.
Disable: This toggle enables or disables the current node.
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