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These preferences let you improve realtime performance in DaVinci Resolve by disabling specific UI features and optimizing the quality of some operations.
— Hide UI overlays: When using a single GPU for both display and CUDA, OpenCL, or Metal processing, or if your display GPU is underpowered, or if you lack the PCIe bandwidth required for the currently specified resolution or frame rate, you may be able to improve real time performance by turning this option on. When enabled, onscreen controls such as the cursor, Power Window outlines, and split-screen views are disabled and hidden during playback. When playback is paused, all onscreen controls reappear.
— Minimize interface updates during playback: When enabled, gives priority to real time performance during playback by reducing user-interface updates. This is helpful when you’re creating complex grades on systems with low processing power, or when working on projects at high resolutions.
— Performance Mode Automatic/Manual: A trio of radio buttons let you choose between Automatic (default) and Manual (user selectable) behaviors when you turn on Performance Mode in DaVinci Resolve, or you can turn Performance Mode Off altogether. Set to Automatic, Performance mode automatically optimizes a variety of operations in a bid to balance performance with the necessary level of image quality, for fast onscreen performance while always maintaining the highest level of quality for video output. Set to Manual, there are three different settings you can choose to disable for instances where a particular performance tradeoff Resolve is making results in an undesirably noticeable reduction in image quality in Performance Mode:
— Optimized Sizing: Relates to how image resizing is handled.
— Optimized Decode Quality: Relates to how clip resolution vs. timeline resolution is handled.
— Optimized Image Processing: Relates to how image processing operations are handled.
Control Panels
The parameters in this panel let you customize the functionality of the DaVinci Control panel. Some, but not all, of these settings apply to third party panels.
Panel Sensitivity
Lets you choose the orientation of red on the trackballs, how sensitive trackballs and rings are, and how sensitive the qualifier knobs are.
— Classic DaVinci trackball alignment: When enabled, this checkbox sets all color balance controls in DaVinci Resolve to the traditional orientation they’ve always used, which is close to, but not exactly the same as, the vectorscope alignment of hues. When disabled, the alignment of color balance controls is exactly the same as the vectorscope alignment of hues, which is similar to how other color grading applications work. You should choose the mode you’re most familiar with.
— Grading style: Controls the orientation of the trackballs relative to the corrections they make. There are two options:
— DaVinci: Most users will be familiar with the standard DaVinci controls as this mimics the vectorscope (how closely depends on the Classic DaVinci trackball alignment setting).
— Rank: The Rank settings are somewhat different, so this option is for users who are familiar with color controls that the Rank control system offered. In this mode, the orientation of red and green are reversed.