Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel - Manual (Page 261)

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Soft-clipping lets you apply a “knee” to any clipping that occurs at the upper or lower extremes of the
image, and can be used to quickly ease off any unpleasantly harsh clipping that may occur as a result
of blowing out the whites or crushing the shadows.
In the following example, the screenshot at top has had the highlights deliberately blown out by boosting
the highlight contrast. As you can see, the edges of the clipped area lack detail. The screenshot at bottom
shows the same image with soft clipping increased for all three color channels; the result retrieves detail,
compressing the highlights to bring the tops of each color channel back within the allowable range.
Top–blown out highlights, clipping appears at the top of the RGB Parade. Middle–High Soft clipping raised in all
three channels. Bottom–the resulting compressed highlights retrieve detail