User Manual

Using DaVinci Resolve

you can track a window on a person in order to make color and contrast changes just to that

person without affecting his/her surroundings. By making corrections like this you can influence

the audience’s attention on areas you want them to look at.

To add a power window to your clip:

1 Add a new serial node.

2 Open the ‘window’ palette and select a window shape by clicking on the icon next to

the shape. Your selected window shape will appear on the node.

3 Resize the shape by clicking and dragging the blue points around the shape. The pink

points adjust the edge softness. You can position the shape by clicking the center

point and moving it to the area you want to isolate. Rotate the window using the point

connected to the center.

Now you can make color corrections to your image in just the area you want.

Power windows let you make secondary corrections to specific

parts of your image.

Tracking a Window

The camera, object or area in your shot may be moving, so to make sure your window stays on

your selected object or area, you’ll need to use DaVinci Resolve’s powerful tracking feature.

The tracker analyzes the pan, tilt, zoom and rotation of the camera or object in your clip so you

can match your windows to that movement. If this isn’t done, your correction can move off the

selected target and call attention to itself, which you probably don’t want.

To track a window to a moving object:

1 Create a new serial node and add a power window.

2 Go to the start of your clip and position and size the window to highlight just the object

or area you want.

3 Open the ‘tracker’ palette. Select the pan, tilt, zoom, rotate, and perspective 3D

settings appropriate for the movement in your clip by checking or unchecking the

relevant ‘analyse’ checkboxes.

4 Click on the ‘forward’ arrow to the left of the checkboxes. DaVinci Resolve will now

apply a cluster of tracking points on your clip and then step through the frames to

analyze the movement. When the tracking is done, your power window will follow the

path of the movement in your clip.