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Panels and Panel Focus
Each page of DaVinci Resolve consists of multiple panels. Each panel contains all the controls
and information necessary for a particular aspect of that page’s functionality. In the following
partial screenshot of the top of the Media page, the Media Storage panel lets you browse files,
the Viewer is a panel that lets you watch video, and the Audio panel lets you see the strength of
audio playing back via a set of audio meters. Each of these panels has separate controls, but
they all appear within the main window of the DaVinci Resolve user interface.
Three panels side by side on the Media Page, showing Media Storage, the Viewer, and the Audio panel
Each panel you use has “focus,” meaning that clicking an item or control within a particular
panel makes that panel the active panel, which serves to direct keyboard shortcuts that are
shared among many panels to the particular panel you’re using. If you want to see which panel
is in focus, you can turn on the “Show focus indicators in the User Interface” checkbox in the UI
Settings panel of the User Preferences. When on, a red line at the top of the active panel
indicates that it has focus.
A red line at the top of the Media Pool in the Edit page shows that it has focus
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