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A collection of operational preferences.
— Language: A Language drop-down at the top lets you specify which language the DaVinci Resolve user interface displays. DaVinci Resolve currently supports English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Thai, Vietnamese, and Korean.
— Reload last working project on startup: Automatically reopens the last project a user had open whenever that user logs back into DaVinci Resolve. This checkbox can only be enabled when editing a preset configuration in the Presets panel, so that it’s always on no matter which project you open as long as you’re using that particular preset.
— Show focus indicators in the User Interface: Lets you enable or disable a red line at the top of each panel that indicates which panel currently has focus.
— Use gray background for user interface: By default, DaVinci Resolve uses a blue-gray
UI background, intended to provide a more attractive experience for users focused on the less color-critical aspects of DaVinci Resolve, namely editing. Turning this checkbox on switches DaVinci Resolve to a totally neutral, desaturated gray UI, which can be valuable as a point of reference for colorists concerned about the blue-gray UI’s potential to bias the eye in the dark environment of the grading suite.
— Use gray background in viewers: When turned on, sets the background of all viewers to gray, making it easier to evaluate image blanking or minor sizing adjustments than with the default dark background.
— Resize image in viewer to square pixels: This control will select between using a square or non-square pixel aspect ratio within the Viewer. This is important when working with SD images which do not have a square pixel aspect ratio.
— Delay viewer display by X frames: When turned on, you can enter a number of frames to delay DaVinci Resolve Viewers as they appear on your computer displays so that the image on your computer display better syncs up with the same image shown on external displays that are delayed due to various signal processing processes.
— Output single field when paused: This setting will reduce flicker when grading using a computer monitor or when working with interlaced material. Ordinarily, when viewing interlaced material in Stop or Pause mode, field one is displayed followed by field two. Depending on the image, this can result in a flicker on the display. When this option is enabled, only field one will be shown on the monitor when playback is paused; however both fields will be shown when the clips are played.
— Stop playback when a dropped frame is detected: When enabled, sets DaVinci Resolve to stop playback whenever a frame is dropped on output, to warn you that there are performance issues on your workstation. This is particularly useful when you’re outputting to tape.
— Stop renders when a frame or clip cannot be processed: When enabled, this will halt a render if DaVinci Resolve detects an error in the encoding, rather than continue to try to process it.
— Show playhead shadow: Checking this box turns on the playhead shadow, a transparent orange range used for visually measuring that extends a certain number of frames before and after the playhead. The number of frames in the range before or after the playhead can be adjusted in the Editing section of the User Preferences.
— 2D timeline scrolling: Checking this box will scroll the Timeline vertically through all the Video or Audio tracks when moving the mouse wheel. Unchecking this box will scroll the entire Timeline horizontally when moving the mouse wheel.