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Double-clicking fields containing most number values highlights the number so that you can
type a new value using the keyboard, pressing Return to confirm the change.
Icons and Buttons
Some controls are exposed as icons and buttons, which you simply click to invoke whatever
functionality they encompass.
A pair of buttons with icons to illustrate their functionality
Resetting Parameters
To reset any editable parameter to its default setting, double-click its text label, or click the
reset button, if one appears. Master reset buttons, typically found in the headers of groups of
controls, reset all controls in that group. Individual reset controls that appear to the right of
parameters typically only reset that one parameter. If you don’t see a reset control, then
double-clicking the name of the parameter should work.
Reset buttons
The Three Buttons of a Mouse
or Other Input Device
Resolve uses all three buttons of a multi-button mouse, or the three buttons available on other
type of input devices, when available. This section provides a brief summary of all the different
ways these three mouse buttons can be used.
Left Button
The left button is always referred to as a click, as in, “click the auto select button.” You click to
turn buttons or other controls on or off, to make selections, and to give areas of the Resolve UI
focus so that keyboard shortcuts will do whatever is specific to that panel or area of the
userinterface.
Double-clicking the left button usually opens items that are openable, such as opening a clip
from the Media Pool into the Source Viewer. You can also use double-clicking to do things like
selecting nodes in the Node Editor of the Color page.
Right Button
The right button is referred to as a right-click, as in, “right-click a clip in the Media Pool.” Right-
clicking an item or area of the Resolve interface usually opens a contextual menu, exposing
additional commands that are specific to the item or area you’ve right-clicked.
However, some areas of the UI use right-clicking in special ways. For example, when you’re
using a color adjustment curve in the Curve palette of the Color page, right-clicking a control
point deletes that point.
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