Up until very recently, high end video post production tools such as Resolve required high end workstation class computer hardware, with multiple dedicated GPU’s and ideally, hundreds of GB RAM. Those days of million dollar suites that only large commercial post facilities could afford are long gone, and computer technology has raced ahead in performance to the point where almost anybody with the desire to learn, can now have access to these tools.

Through the latter half of the 1980’s to early 2000’s DaVinci was a specialized color corrector tied to telecine and film scanners, it required dedicated hardware costing many hundreds of thousands of dollars. DaVinci Resolve has a long history in high-end film and video finishing, starting long before it was acquired by Blackmagic Design, and long before it was a software solution. I originally started compiling this guide in 2015 with Resolve 11, and as of my latest update to this post, Resolve 17 has been with us for over a year already. But I am stumped.As with all things tech, change comes quickly. So I can't figure out hwo to get the guides for broadcast for the safe area to appear in the viewer while I am on the edit page? But now I can't get that pop up menu to appear. I can't remember if that was on the edit menu but I think so.

(Per page 23 of the Definitive Guide to DaVinci Resolve) But nothing shows on the screen in the video viewer.Īlso in the past, I could right click in the middle f the viewer and a popup menu would appear and there would e a Guides selection. View->Safe Area is set to on and everything under it is checked. I can't figure out how to do that anymore. I want to make sure it is in the broadcast safe area. Like I'll add a new vidoe layer with a text+ effect. Seems like I'm always having to rediscover how to do basic things on Resolve.Ĭase in point, I like to have the safe area guides turned on as I am moving elements around on the edit window.

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