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— Capture: Switches the Viewer and Audio Panel to Capture Mode, exposing the controls necessary for cuing up a device-controllable deck, and batch recording from tape.
— Audio Panel/Metadata Editor full/half height button: Lets you set the Audio Panel or Metadata Editor to take up the full height of your display, if you need more area for either of those functions.
Showing Which Panel Has Focus
Whenever you click somewhere on the DaVinci Resolve interface using the pointer, or use a keyboard shortcut to “select” a particular panel (such as in the Edit page), you give that panel of the user interface “focus.” A panel with focus will capture specific keyboard shortcuts to do something within that panel, as opposed to doing something elsewhere in the interface.
Disabled by default, checking the “Show focus indicators in the user interface” box in the UI Settings section of the User Preferences causes an orange highlight to appear at the top edge of the focused panel, allowing you to keep track of which part of the current page is taking precedence. You can switch focus as necessary to do what you need to do.
The Focus indicator shown at the top edge of the Media Pool, shown next to a Viewer that doesn’t have focus
The Media Storage Browser
The Media Storage browser lets you see all of the volumes connected to your workstation, browsing them for media that you want to preview and eventually import into your DaVinci Resolve project in one way or another. Whereas other applications rely on some sort of import dialog, DaVinci Resolve provides the Media page for doing complex media import tasks. To facilitate media import, the Media Storage browser is divided into two areas, the Volume List, and the Media Browser.
Media Storage browser with scrubbable clip view