User Manual

Using three nodes to convert a film scan using LUTs, node 1 converts from Negative or Print to Linear,
node 2 converts from Linear to Rec. 709, and node 3, if required, inverts the color
NOTE Applying a LUT within a node will clip any image data falling below 0 and
above1. To prevent clipping, you can use the Lift/Gamma/Gain controls within any
node with a LUT applied to adjust your image levels prior to the transform applied by
the LUTwithin that node.
The format of the film you’re scanning and the way the material was originally shot both affect
the framing. You can adjust the final framing of your scanned clip by resizing, zooming,
stretching, panning, tilting, and more. On the ‘color’ page, open the ‘sizing’ palette and use the
‘input sizing’ mode to create the necessary framing. To save your sizing preferences as a preset,
open the menu, select ‘save as new preset’ and enter a name for your preset.
Once you’ve created an appropriate sizing preset for a given type of media, you can apply that
preset to multiple film scans all at once, in either the color page or in the media pool using the
‘change input sizing preset’ command, found in the contextual menu of selected clips. For more
information on sizing, see the ‘sizing and image stabilization’ chapter in the
DaVinci Resolve manual.
Creating a sizing preset in the Sizing palette of the Color page
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