Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel - Manual (Page 265)

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Important: Image data that was clipped “in camera” is not necessarily retrievable using the Soft Clip
controls, although there may be some preserved overhead in the highlights of Y’CbCr-encoded
video data.
Low Soft Clipping Point
The Low Soft Clipping Point vertical slider, to the left of each clip curve control, lets you adjust the
minimum signal level at which the signal clips. This defaults to a digital level of 0 relative to the DaVinci
Resolve internal video scopes. Raising this slider causes the shadows of the image to clip at a higher
level, resulting in lighter minimum levels, and possibly a milkier image.
Low Soft
The Low Soft slider sets the threshold, above the minimum clipping point, at which shadows begin to
compress before hard clipping. At 0, no soft clipping occurs. As you raise this value, more and more
of the clipped shadow values are compressed, rather then clipped, resulting in a softer, more pleasant
rolloff in the shadows.
Using Soft Clipping Controls with the DaVinci Resolve Control
Surface
The soft clipping controls can also be manipulated using the DaVinci Resolve control surface, which
provides separate controls for ganged and individual color channels.
To open the soft clipping control on the DaVinci Resolve control surface:
• Press the CLIPS display button on the center panel.
To exit the soft clipping controls:
• Press the MAIN display button on the center panel.
To make a ganged soft clipping adjustment:
• Adjust the MASTER CLIP or MASTER SOFT rotary knobs of the SCENE WHITE
CLIPS or SCENE BLACK CLIPS control groups. There are 4 individual knobs.
These controls adjust all four corresponding YRGB High Soft, High Clip, Low Soft, or
Low Clip parameters simultaneously.
To adjust soft clipping for individual color channels:
• Adjust the RED/GREEN/BLUE CLIP or RED/GREEN/BLUE SOFT rotary knobs of the
SCENE WHITE CLIPS or SCENE BLACK CLIPS control groups. There are 12
individual knobs.
Each control adjusts an individual YRGB color channel.