User Manual

When the time comes to output your program, the final resolution of each clip is calculated
taking into account the original resolution of the source media, the timeline resolution, image
scaling settings, Edit page transforms, and Color page transforms, so that the final resolution
correctly uses the cleanest geometric transformation based on the maximum resolution
available to each source clip.
Transform
The Edit page transform group includes the following parameters, which are also editable in the
Edit Sizing mode of the Sizing palette in the Color page:
 Zoom X and Y: Allows you to blow the image up or shrink it down. The X and Y
parameters can be linked to lock the aspect ratio of the image, or released to stretch or
squeeze the image in one direction only.
 Position X and Y: Moves the image within the frame, allowing pan and scan
adjustments to be made. X moves the image left or right, and Y moves the image
upordown.
 Rotation Angle: Rotates the image around the anchor point.
 Anchor Point X and Y: Defines the coordinate on that clip about which all transforms
are centered.
 Pitch: Rotates the image toward or away from the camera along an axis running through
the center of the image, from left to right. Positive values push the top of the image
away and bring the bottom of the image forward. Negative values bring the top of the
image forward and push the bottom of the image away. Higher values stretch the image
more extremely.
 Yaw: Rotates the image toward or away from the camera along an axis running through
the center of the image from top to bottom. Positive values bring the left of the image
forward and push the right of the image away. Negative values push the left of the
image away and push the right of the image forward. Higher values stretch the image
more extremely.
 Flip Image: Two buttons let you flip the image in different dimensions.
 Flip Horizontal control: Reverses the image along the X axis, left to right.
 Flip Vertical control: Reverses the clip along the Y axis, turning it upside down.
Cropping
The Edit page has an additional set of cropping parameters:
 Crop Left, Right, Top, and Bottom: Lets you cut off, in pixels, the four sides of the image.
Cropping a clip creates transparency, so that whatever is underneath shows through.
 Softness: Lets you blur the edges of a crop. Setting this to a negative value softens the
edges inside of the crop box, while setting this to a positive value softens the edges
outside of the crop box.
Dynamic Zoom
The Dynamic Zoom controls, which are off by default, make it fast and easy to do pan and scan
effects to zoom into or out of a clip. Also, if you import a project from Final Cut Pro X with clips
that use the Ken Burns effect, then those clip’s effects will populate the Dynamic Zoom
parameters in DaVinci Resolve. Turning the Dynamic Zoom group on activates two controls in
the Inspector that work hand-in-hand with the Dynamic Zoom onscreen adjustment controls
you can expose in the Timeline Viewer (described below):
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