User Manual

QUICK START GUIDE 34
Quick Start Project
This Quick Start overview is designed to skip past much of the detail and get you quickly to the Color
screen so you can learn how to login, configure and load a project, select clips, create a master timeline
and start grading. Once you have these basics understood, you can continue learning the details of
DaVinci Resolve operation as you reference each of the chapters in this User Manual.
Assuming you have installed the DaVinci Resolve application and used the Preferences menu, as
detailed in Chapter 2, to set up your media storage, video capture hardware, and control panel type, the
final preparation step is to put some images on your media storage drives.
OntheDaVinciResolveapplicationDVDthereisafoldercalled‘SampleImages.’UseMacFinderoryour
Linux Browser to copy this folder and contents to your media storage.
1. Start DaVinci Resolve. At the Login screen double click on the Guest icon.
2. TheCongurationscreenwillautomaticallyopenafterthelogin.Selectthe‘Add’button
on the bottom left of the screen in the Project List display. In the window enter the new
projectname,‘SampleProject’and’Save.’
3. Using the navigation buttons, select the Browse screen and look for your media
storage at the top left. Expand the folder view, if necessary, and select the folder
‘SampleImages’thatyoucopiedfromtheDVD.Nowrightclickonthefolderandselect
theseconditemintheoptionslist,‘AddFolderIntoMediaPool.’YouwillseetheMedia
Pool populated with a few files.
4. Select the Conform navigation button and, on the left in the Timeline Management
display,select‘New’andconrm‘OK.’AtthebottomyouwillseetheEDLdisplaylist
the events, which will show as clips on the Master Session timeline.
5. You are ready to switch to the Color screen. The timeline will be populated and the
Viewer will show the first frame of the first clip. You can jump to clips by selecting them
on the Thumbnail Timeline or use the transport controls under the Viewer.
6. Within the Primary tab, click and drag the red, green or blue slider within the Lift,
Gamma, or Gain display. To the left of these is the Luminance Gain. Click and drag the
Luminance Lift a little lower and the Luminance Gain a little higher.
7. To add a PowerWindow, click on the Windows tab and select the circular window, turn
it on, and note the window cursors on the Viewer. Select a cyan anchor point and click
and drag to change the size or aspect. Now adjust the primary controls or curves and
note that the grade you apply is inside the window.
Follow the rest of this User Manual to learn the full power of DaVinci Resolve.