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I am trying the free download of Resolve 17. I can use dual monitors but would like to view the work I am doing on the timeline in a window on the second monitor as I am able to do with Adobe Premiere Pro. I can't figure out how to do that. Is that only available on the paid version? Thank you!!

Clean Feed is only available in the Studio version.

Thank you, Jim!

Jim Simon wrote:Clean Feed is only available in the Studio version.

I've got the Studio version.
What is "Clean Feed" and how do I use it?

vindibona1 wrote:

Jim Simon wrote:Clean Feed is only available in the Studio version.

I've got the Studio version. What is "Clean Feed" and how do I use it?

Covered in the v17 manual on page 1151. It's important that everybody read the manual or at least look things up when you encounter a mode you don't know or understand.

vindibona1 wrote:

Jim Simon wrote:Clean Feed is only available in the Studio version.

I've got the Studio version.
What is "Clean Feed" and how do I use it?

You can choose your second monitor to display the image you are working on full screen, without any other things being on screen.
So when you do something like colorgrading or adding sharpness, you can see itna lot better compared to the tiny screen in the ui of resolve itself. You can find the option under the workspace tab at the top resolve toolbar.

vindibona1 wrote:

Jim Simon wrote:Clean Feed is only available in the Studio version.

What is "Clean Feed" and how do I use it?

Choose "Workspace" from the menu bar at the top of the Resolve window, click on "Video Clean Feed", and then select the monitor that you want the video to appear on. The video will "take over" that monitor in full screen mode with no overlays - this lets you see what the finished version of it will look like even while you're adjusting it using on-screen controls in the viewer panel of the Resolve interface window.

Marc Wielage wrote:

vindibona1 wrote:

Jim Simon wrote:Clean Feed is only available in the Studio version.

I've got the Studio version. What is "Clean Feed" and how do I use it?

Covered in the v17 manual on page 1151. It's important that everybody read the manual or at least look things up when you encounter a mode you don't know or understand.

I appreciate you directing me to this pages. But as for your comments about "everyone reading the manual or looking things up"... First there are over 3500 pages in this manual. So reading it cover to cover is unlikely for most. As for looking things up, first you have to know what you're looking up.

And while I now appreciate the incredibly huge and detailed PDF manual, I find it extremely interesting that it is hidden within the application rather than a stand-alone document that could be downloaded independently. At least I have that part cleared up. At least to me, it wasn't obvious where the manual was or if one existed at all.

You can download the manual separately if you wish. It's the topmost item in the centre column here.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/family/davinci-resolve-and-fusion

Or you can do as I have and create a shortcut on your desktop to the manual in the documents section of Resolve.

vindibona1 wrote:I appreciate you directing me to this pages. But as for your comments about "everyone reading the manual or looking things up"... First there are over 3500 pages in this manual. So reading it cover to cover is unlikely for most. As for looking things up, first you have to know what you're looking up.

Read just the section on editing (pp. 541-913 in the v17 manual). That will solve the problem, and it's not three thousand pages long.

There's all kinds of stuff I don't know in Resolve, or really subtle things that I use maybe three times a year and can't remember where they are. I keep a copy of the Resolve PDF on my desktop of all our systems, and I'm not afraid to grab the manual, do a quick search, and figure out where it is, how to get to it, and how to make it work the way I want it to. Clean Feed is very simple, very basic, and would be covered even in the most introductory Resolve Editing class on the planet.

Read the free textbook on Advanced Editing in Resolve, which will take you maybe 2-3 days to go through. Do that and much will become clearer.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/produc ... e/training

In a lot of ways, the textbooks are more useful than the manual because they put the features in context -- particularly for somebody coming to Resolve from Premiere. I'd like to see a book written from a Premiere point of view, so it could say, "in Premiere, you did ABC... in Resolve, you have to do XYZ in order to accomplish the same thing." That might be more relatable.

Marc Wielage wrote:Read just the section on editing (pp. 541-913 in the v17 manual). That will solve the problem, and it's not three thousand pages long.

Yup. Only 3- to 400 pages

Marc Wielage wrote:Read the free textbook on Advanced Editing in Resolve, which will take you maybe 2-3 days to go through. Do that and much will become clearer.

An upfront investment of some time to work through the training material will pay handsome rewards over many years. Not only will you become comfortable with all the basic tasks, you'll also learn the terminology and the "lay of the land" within Resolve which will make the very large and comprehensive reference manual a lot easier to navigate and save you a lot of time and frustration when you get to the point of needing to understand more advanced concepts.