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The various video generators included in DaVinci Resolve can be previewed by hovering your pointer over any thumbnail in the Generators tab. To edit a generator into your Timeline, simply grab the thumbnail of the generator you wish to use, and place it in your Timeline in the Edit page, or in either the upper or lower Timelines in the Cut page.
For more information on using all the included video and audio effects in DaVinci Resolve,
see Chapter 46, “Editing, Adding, and Copying Effects and Filters.”
Clip Tools
Clicking the Tools button in the Viewer toolbar opens up additional categories of controls that let you apply various effects to the current clip, or adjust whatever effect is already applied to the current clip. Many of the parameters of these effects have corresponding onscreen controls that let you make visual adjustments directly in the Viewer.
The Tools button
Shared Controls
Every category of effect at the bottom of the Viewer has two shared controls. A toggle control at the far left lets you enable or disable an effect without losing whatever custom adjustments you’ve made. A reset control at the far right lets you reset every parameter within a particular category of controls to the default settings.
The Toggle button (at left) and Reset button (at right)
Transform
When you select Transform, onscreen transform controls appear that let you directly manipulate the image in the Viewer. You can drag anywhere within the clip’s bounding box to adjust pan and tilt, drag any diagonal corner to proportionally resize, drag any top/bottom/left/right side to squeeze or stretch width or height, or drag the center handle to rotate.
Onscreen Transform controls in the Viewer
TIP: While dragging a clip using the onscreen controls to reposition it, holding the Shift key down constrains movement to just the X or Y axes.
TIP: While dragging a clip using the onscreen controls to reposition it, holding the Shift key down constrains movement to just the X or Y axes.
TIP: While dragging a clip using the onscreen controls to reposition it, holding the Shift key down constrains movement to just the X or Y axes.