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— Decay: If the Meter Type is set to Custom, this lets you set the time in seconds for level metering decay in 20 dB increments, following peak levels registering on the meters.
— Peak Indicator: If the Meter Type is set to Custom, this lets you select the hold time for peak level indication in the meters.
— Off
— Short hold + fall
— Medium hold + fall
— Medium hold
— Long hold
— Infinite hold
— Pre fader metering on tracks: Lets you choose how meters in the Fairlight page display their audio analysis. There are two options:
— Post Fader (unchecked): Meters always display the level of each clip’s signal after whatever fader adjustments have taken place. Fading a track’s level down diminishes the visible level of that audio signal in the meter. This setting is good if you prefer a visual indication of the relative levels you’ve set your various audio tracks to, which is a very NLE-oriented behavior.
— Pre Fader (checked): Meters always use the volume levels of the audio clips in that track, even if you’ve lowered the level using the sliders. If you’ve keyframed a clip’s volume, that change will be reflected by the audio meters, even though fader changes are not. Viewing meters this way means you can always see how much level is available to clips in your mix, regardless of what the current fader levels are set to, in the event you want to keep track of audio you want to bring back into the mix later on. This is a very DAW-oriented behavior.
— Target Loudness level: Lets you set the LUFS value that’s used as a reference level for loudness metering. Defaults to –23 LUFS, which conveniently makes the display of these meters scale similarly to traditional audio meters that you’re already used to.
— Loudness Scale: Lets you choose which scale you want to use with which to measure the meters. Options currently include the default of EBU +9 Scale (–18 to +9), and EBU +18 Scale (–36 to +18).
— Bus Meter Alignment Level: Sets the peak of the bus meter.
— Bus Meter High Level: Sets the dB level at which the meter starts showing red.
— Bus Meter Low Level: Sets the dB level at which the meter starts showing yellow.
Path Mapping
The Path Mapping panel lets you configure your system’s file paths, allowing you to seamlessly link and share media clips while collaborating with other users on their own systems. For example, Editor A and Colorist B are collaborating on the same project. Editor A is working on a Mac in L.A., where Colorist B is working on a PC in Bangkok. They are both sharing media in a cloud service’s folder, but the file paths to that cloud folder are different for both of them locally.
— The Editor’s Mac folder is at /Users/editor/cloudfolder/Episode 12
— The Colorist’s Windows folder is at D:\Projects\Episodes\cloudfolder\Episode 12
Normally if they were collaborating, each one would constantly have to re-link the files from the other before they could continue as the path names would not match. By both of them adding the “Episode 12” location, and mapping their local paths in this section, DaVinci Resolve will automatically convert the file paths on the fly as they work. There would be no need for re-linking the clips as long as all the media they used was in the same hierarchy in the Episode 12 folder.