From the course: DaVinci Resolve: Editing Basics

Note on screen size - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

From the course: DaVinci Resolve: Editing Basics

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Note on screen size

- [Instructor] Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve was originally designed for 1080 screens or larger. This title was recorded smaller than that, and I'd like to point out that the entire interface is functional, although, a little bite different, especially if you're looking at it on a 1080 screen or greater. The two pages I'm going to pay the most attention to are the edit page and the color page to show you these differences. Before I go any further though, I just want to call out, here under the Workspace is the ability to go full screen, and this is going to remove that top little strip. Let's go ahead and do that. With that gone, it's impossible now to move the application out of place, which is fantastic, especially on a Windows machine. Back under the Workspace menu, you'll see that we've got that full screen selected, along with the ability to choose a dual screens layout, to build their own layout presets as well as reset the UI. So you can see the difference here, this is what the edit page looks like on my screen, and if I go ahead and I put it at a 1080 screen, it looks more like this. You'll notice I just happen to have more real estate available to me. Throughout the title, I'll constantly be turning on and off these top elements like the media pool or the effect library, or the inspector, or metadata, just to give us that extra real estate. Additionally, in the editorial page, you'll see that there's this box here which takes us from having a source record monitor to just one or the other, depending on need. And I point it out because it'll automatically throw this switch. It'll automatically do this when I open up information like the inspector, you'll see my source monitor goes away. I'm going to reset that by closing this and opening back up my media pool. I want to do the same sort of comparison here on the color page. If you're working on a larger screen, your color page looks quite a bit more rich. It looks like this, where you're able to see what looks like a three-way color corrector on the bottom left and curves in the middle, and scopes or key frames on the right side. On my system, there's a little less information, and these icons here in the middle all will get bunched over to the left. Let's take a look. Here's what my screen looks like. Now, all of the information is there, for example, here's my standard color corrector, and here are my curves, and here are my scopes. We just find that Resolve is compacting the space to make it possible to work on a screen like this. Again, I just want to point out you have 100% functionality, you just have certain areas hidden.

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