(solved) Masks disappeared - how to make them visible again?

For some strange reason mask controls in Resolve 9 just disappeared from the power window. I can see the effects of the masks being applied, but not the GUI lines on top of the footage.

If I create a new project they will appear, but not in older projects. Is this a setting? A bug? How can I toggle them back?

It's the yellow and cyan mask outlines I'm talking about that is hidden for some reason.

A screenshot of a project it's affected would be nice, but I suspect the button underneath the viewer at the left hand end needs its selected option changing. The screenshot you've chosen shows the correct one.

Yes, the screenshot is just something I picked from the net just to show you the mask controls. But these lines does not appear even if I choose the power window mode.

Have a look in the Resolve manual (or keyboard shortcuts) at 'view > window outline'

I know it's not the most intuitive labeling, but that's how you toggle the power window outlines on and off.


John T.

sometimes choosing another window shape on that node and toggling that on and off brings them back

[Dwaine Maggart]

What John said. In 9.0.4 and higher, the keyboard shortcut to change modes is <Option> <h>.

I have existing shape outlines dissapear sometimes when set to ui only and toggling show shapes on and off does not fix it. I have to toggle a different unused shape on and off on that clip to get the outline of the shape I had already created to display again. This has been on 9.1.1 and 9.1.3

Thank you guys!
Yes, what John Tissavary suggested fixed this "issue". Problem solved. Thank you

I have the problem as listed in DaVinci Resolve 10.1.0lite.
Switching on and off the window outline doesn't help.
Only thing i found is working is restart of Resolve.

I found this via Google when I had the same problem, and the View > Window Outline > On - solution didn't work for me either. I found the hidden setting though, and I'm sharing a screencap for others who might run into this annoying situation.

In your monitor window there is a drop down menu from a small button, and you have to select that your power window interface be visible by choosing the third one down. Not exactly "intuitive"... but that's the price we pay for learning Resolve

Cheers,

~Aria

I still have this happen and the above setting doesn't help. Often have to switch to another clip and back or as I said activate a different shape and turn it off again. This has be going on from ver 9-11 now?

Yes, I have the exact same problem and so far noting that was suggested in this post worked. I am using Resolve 11.3 and this problem still exists!? It is an obvious bug yet it was not remedied ever since it occurred in the first place. Pretty annoying especially after long hours of manual tracking and manual power window shaping. Suddenly the damn window simply disappears and there is nothing can be done to bring it back. Many hours of work is now lost because of this stupid glitch. Professional software, eh? I am very disappointed!

If I have a keyboard handy, I just pound option-H until the window appears. It works as long as you're in the Window Outline mode. I have yet to encounter a situation where the window won't appear.

What I'm working on is a macro to select Window Outline and then hit option-H. Tricky.

I've been having the same issue. I will try the option-h and see if it works. Thanks for the tip!

I had the same problem.

To solve it I just switched back and forth from Color page to Edit page and back on the Color page. My Power Window controls came back just from switching from the pages. It looks to me that this problem is related to some kind of refresh function of the elements inside the Color page.

Choosing another shape mask into the window where the masks are located into the Color window solved the problem.

The timeline-node option.

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Another thing not to forget. Let's say somebody created a mask with a timeline-node instead of a clip-node. We know that the timeline-node will affect all the clips. So, if anybody wants to see the effect of the mask, their we should make sure that the nodes where the mask is applied is displaying « Timline », this way the Power Window will show the control and the real time changes made to it.