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Export The Current Frame from The Viewer
You can now export a still frame from the Viewer in the Media, Cut, and Edit pages.
1 Use the Viewer’s playback controls to navigate to the frame you want to export.
2 Select File > Export > Current Frame as Still.
3 Enter the name of the still frame in the File System viewer.
4 Enter the desired format of the still frame in the File System viewer.
5 Click on the Export button.
Audio Meter
An audio meter to the right of the Viewer shows you a graphical representation of the audio levels playing in the current clip or in the Timeline as you play through the Viewer, via animated vertical bars that are tinted to indicate how loud the levels are:
— Green indicates safe levels
— Yellow indicates levels that are peaking at approximately safe levels
— Red indicates levels that may be peaking at levels that are too high, risking clipping the signal and causing distortion
These animated bars serve as a visual reference you can use to help you adjust the volume of different clips to create a pleasing balance, and to make sure you don’t exceed the maximum desired level and introduce clipping. A speaker button at the top of the meters lets you mute or unmute audio playback.
The Audio Meter showing an audio signal
The Timeline
The word “timeline” refers both to an edited sequence of clips, which constitutes a program that is stored in the Media Pool, and to the area of the Cut page interface where you can open this sequence of clips to see its contents, and for playback and editing.
Timelines are created and stored in the Media Pool, along with all of your other clips. However, each timeline is assembled and edited in what is sometimes referred to as the Timeline Editor. Different pages of DaVinci Resolve show your timeline differently according to the special requirements of each page focusing variously on different methods of editing, grading, compositing, and audio.