Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel User Manual
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Add Serial:
The most common node to use on the Node Graph is a serial node. A Serial
node is a full-featured color correction system offering primaries, secondaries,
windows, tracking, image sharpening and blur, matte blur, etc. Serial nodes are
added one after the other in a cascade mode similar to adding one layer of
correction on top of the last. All grades in a preceding node(s) will impact the
source image and therefore the grades in following nodes.
Add Parallel:
Unlike adding serial node, adding a parallel node actually adds two nodes. One
behaves like a Serial node with full color correction capabilities. The second is a
Parallel Mixer node. This mixer accepts the image from the original Serial node
and from the new Serial node and the output is a mix of these two. If the current
node is one of these Serial nodes immediately preceding the Parallel Mixer node
and you select ‘Add Parallel’ again, another input to the mixer will be created
as will another preceding Serial node. In each case, the input to these Serial
nodes will be common, effectively making them in parallel to each other. The key
advantage here is that the source image is available to many nodes whereas in a
straight Serial Node Graph, each time you restrict a color in a node the following
nodes have little ability or limited range to use that color.
Add Layer:
The Layer node is similar to the Parallel node in that it accepts the image inputs
from more than one node. The key difference to a parallel is that the mixing of
the inputs is prioritized towards the latest additions to the input list of the Layer
node. As an example, select Add Layer and DaVinci Resolve will add a node in
parallel to the current node and link the output of the current and the newly
made Parallel node to the two inputs of the Layer node. The previous current
node will have the lowest priority in the mix, and the newly made Parallel node
the highest priority. Add one more Layer node, a third input node will be created
with a higher mix priority than the first two nodes.
Append Node:
Often when navigating around the Node Graph and making correction trims,
the Colorist decides he/she needs an additional node for more correction. Using
the ‘Append Node’ key will always add a Serial node to the very end of the Node
Graph, regardless of which node in the graph is the current node.