DaVinci Resolve 18 Certification Practice Test 2026 - Free Practice Questions and Study Guide

The key idea is that nodes can be temporarily bypassed to see how the image looks without their effect. The red outlined number on a node acts as a quick toggle to disable that node. When you click it, the node is bypassed, so its adjustments aren’t applied to the image. This lets you compare the result with and without that node’s effect to judge its impact. It isn’t renaming, deleting, or permanently enabling/disabling the node—the action just turns the node off for the current view, and you can click again to re-enable it.