User Manual

Showing and Hiding Panels Using the Interface Toolbar
Each page in DaVinci Resolve has an Interface Toolbar that runs along the top. This toolbar
contains buttons that let you show and hide different panels of functionality, so you can hide
things you don’t need in order to create more room for controls that you’re using.
 You can show panels that aren’t displayed by default, since most pages have many
available panels of functionality that are hidden until you need them.
 You can switch which panel appears within a particular geographical location of the
UI, for example switching between showing the Media Pool or Effects in the upper-
lefthand corner of the Cut or Edit pages.
 You can hide panels you don’t need in order to create more room in the specific panels
you’re working within.
The Interface toolbar for the Color page lets you customize the Color page controls
If you right-click anywhere within the UI toolbar, two options appear: “Show Icons and Labels”
and “ Show Icons Only.” If you show icons only, the UI toolbar becomes less cluttered.
The UI Toolbar for the Edit page, showing icons only, to save space
Each page has a different set of options that reflect the capabilities of that page.
Showing Which Panel Has Focus
Whenever you click somewhere on the DaVinci Resolve interface using the pointer, or use a
keyboard shortcut to “select” a particular panel (such as in the Edit page), you give that panel of
the user interface “focus.” A panel with focus will capture specific keyboard shortcuts to do
something within that panel, as opposed to doing something elsewhere in the interface. A
highlight appears at the top edge to show you which panel has focus, so that you can keep
track of which part of the current page is taking precedence, and you can switch focus as
necessary to do what you need to do.
The focus indicator, at the top edge of the Media Pool,
shown next to a viewer that doesn’t have focus
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