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— Align Clips to Frame Boundaries: When working with interlaced material, you can chose whether to perform edits at the field or frame boundaries. When checked this means all editing actions and playhead stepping will occur at full frame boundaries. This works independently of the audio subframe controls, so it’s still possible to get perfect audio sync while working with video at the frame level. When unchecked, all editing actions and playhead stepping will be performed at the field boundary instead.
— Playback frame rate: Usually mirrors the frame rate selected in the “Video format” setting (in the Video Monitoring section below), which is typically based on the frame rate of the external display that’s connected to your video interface, given the “Timeline Frame Rate” setting. For example,
a 50Hz monitor requires a 25 fps playback frame rate for synchronous display without dropped frames. If you want to monitor playback at a slower frame rate, type the frame rate of your choice in this field and DaVinci Resolve will make the appropriate calculations to drop or repeat frames as necessary to match it. This can be useful for temporarily seeing how clips look in slow motion.
Video Monitoring
The settings available in this group control the signal that’s output by the video output interface that’s connected to your workstation, and let you specify what standard of signal is output, and via which signal path.
By default the frame size and frame rate match those in the Timeline resolution and Playback frame rate options. However, if necessary you can change these settings to match those of the external display you’re using to monitor your work. For example, if you’re working with 2K files for 2K output, but you’re color correcting using a high definition monitor set to 1080 resolution, you can select the appropriate HD standard for that monitor without changing the Timeline Resolution settings.
— Video format: Lets you choose a video standard combination of frame size and frame rate to be output via your connected video output interface.
— Video connection checkboxes: Lets you choose the signal standard to output from your connected video output interface to the video monitor. Make sure to choose a standard that’s supported by both your video interface and your monitor. The options are:
— Use 4:4:4 SDI: A signal path for monitoring image data to monitors that supports 4:4:4 chroma sampling, typically over SDI connections.
— Use Level A for 3Gb SDI output: A signal path for monitoring image data via a single 3 Gb/s SDI connection.
— Use dual outputs on SDI output: All DaVinci Resolve systems can generate a side-by-side display that can be sent to a Stereoscopic monitor via the HD-SDI output of an UltraStudio 4K or DeckLink card. When dual SDI 3D monitoring is enabled, each eye is output separately
at full resolution. In this mode, split-screen wipes and cursors will not be visible on the grading monitor.
— SDI Configuration: Lets you choose from among Single Link, Dual Link, and Quad Link SDI, depending on what your display supports.
— Data Levels: This setting only affects the data levels being output via the video interface that connects the DaVinci Resolve workstation to your external display. It has no effect on the data that’s processed internally by DaVinci Resolve, or on the files written when you render in the Deliver page. It is imperative that the option you choose in DaVinci Resolve matches the data range to which your external display is set. Otherwise, the video signal will appear to be incorrect, even though the internal data is being processed accurately by DaVinci Resolve.