User Manual

DaVinci Resolve User
Interface Conventions
While each chapter covers the unique onscreen controls found in each page of
DaVinci Resolve, this section summarizes how to use some of the more common controls
you’ll see.
Contextual Menus
Nearly every panel on every page exposes additional functionality via contextual menus, which
appear when you right-click on the appropriate item. Sometimes, different commands become
available depending on whether you right-click the background of a particular panel, or directly
on an item such as a still or node.
Contextual menus expose additional controls in the Color page Viewer
Drop-down Menus
Most of the buttons and drop-down menus that appear in various toolbars are activated with a
single click. For example, many panels, palettes, and windows expose an Option menu, that
appears as three horizontal dots (people like to refer to these as the “three dot menus,” but
they’re option menus), which expose additional options and/or commands that are related to
that particular panel’s function.
Option menus
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