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Saving Titles in the Media Pool for Future Use
If you’ve created a title in a style that you want to later reuse, for example, a particularly formatted lower third that will be the basis for every lower-third in your program, you can drag any title from the Timeline to the Media Pool, and it will be saved as a separate clip. Title clips in the Media Pool are
shown with a thumbnail showing a preview of the text they contain. If you’ve keyframed any animated text or video adjustments, those keyframes are also saved with this clip.
A text generator saved as a clip in the Media Pool
Once saved in the Media Pool, text generators can be opened in the Source Viewer and edited just like any other clip.
Using Generators
Generators, with the exception of Solid Color, lack editable parameters other than the Composite, Transform, Cropping, and Dynamic Zoom parameters that are standard for every clip. Additionally, generators have a Display Name field in the Inspector that lets you give a particular clip a custom name that appears in the Timeline.
The various video generators included in DaVinci Resolve can be previewed by hovering your pointer over any thumbnail in the Generators tab. To edit a generator into your timeline, simply grab the thumbnail of the generator you wish to use, and place it in your Timeline in the Edit page, or in either the upper or lower Timelines in the Cut page.
The following generators are available:
— 10 Step: A grayscale ramp segmented into 10 steps from black to white.
— 100mV Steps: A grayscale ramp segmented into segments of exactly 100mV each.
— BT.2111 Color Bar HLG Narrow: Use these bars if your HDR timeline is using a Hybrid Log Gamma curve (HLG). This is most commonly used in broadcast for its simple backward compatibility with SDR televisions.
— BT.2111 Color Bar PQ Full: While PQ Full is a part of the Rec. 2100 (BT.2100) specification, it is not commonly in use at this time. Use this setting only if you know you need it.