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Qualifier: When you select and isolate a particular color, and change that color, you are
making a secondary correction. The qualifier key updates the menus to provide all the
Secondary controls, including the 3D, HSL, RGB, or Luma key, with which to isolate the
correction you need.
Window: Power Windows are another way of making secondary correction, being
essentially shapes you can use to isolate regions of the image. Different controls let
you use oval, rectangular, polygonal, or custom curved shapes. Because you can
isolate regions of the image by drawing, Power Windows produce exceptionally clean
results, with edges that can be precisely positioned and feathered to achieve a variety
of effects.
Tracker: The Tracker palette has three modes, available from the Palette menu. In
Window mode, the tracking controls let you match the motion of a window to that of
a moving feature in the frame. In Stabilizer mode, the same underlying technology is
used to smooth or stabilize the motion within the entire frame, while in FX mode a point
tracker can be used to animate ResolveFX or OFX plug-ins with positioning controls
Blur: With the Blur palette controls you can apply an exceptionally high-quality
Gaussian blur, or another equally high-quality sharpening operation to your image.
Keyer: Each color correction node’s key input and key output makes it possible to route
key channel data from one node to another so you can apply isolated corrections.
These key levels are controlled in the Keyer palette.
Sizing: DaVinci Resolve has a powerful toolset for making geometric transforms, using
advanced algorithms for optical-quality sizing operations and they are found in this
palette.
Fx: Control of the Resolve FX plug-ins from this palette will be available here in future
releases.
User: User configured menus will be available here in future releases.
Quick Selection Buttons
On the right hand side of the top deck you will find 15 quick selection buttons. These are for
very commonly used selections that a colorist might use many times for each clip.
Quick selection buttons
Serial: The most common node to use on the node graph is a Serial node. A Serial
node is a full-featured color correction processor offering primaries, secondaries,
windows, tracking, image stabilization, sharpening and blur, matte blur, and so on. Serial
nodes are added one after the other in a cascade mode, similar to adding one layer of
correction on top of the last. All grades in a preceding node(s) will impact the source
image and therefore the grades in following nodes.
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