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If you selected a local version, all unused local versions will be deleted, but remote versions will be left alone. Similarly, if you selected a remote version, all unused remote versions will be deleted, but local versions will be left alone.
1 Choose the version you want a clip to use.
2 Right-click the thumbnail of the clip you want to eliminate extra versions from, and choose Delete All Versions from the contextual menu.
Regardless of whether you selected a local or remote version, all other local and remote versions not in use will be deleted.
Rendering Versions
When the time comes to render your clips in the Deliver page, each clip’s currently selected version will be rendered. If you need to render a different version for a given clip, you can either make sure it’s selected in the Color Page timeline before you open the Deliver page, or use the Versions submenu
in the Color mode of the Deliver page Thumbnail timeline. This contextual menu also provides access to the Stereo 3D commands, the Edit PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio) command, and a command for updating the Render Window Timeline thumbnails to reflect any changes you’ve made in case they haven’t updated automatically.
Additionally, the Commercial Workflow output option, located in the Deliver page, provides a method of rendering multiple versions for each clip when outputting your project in Source Order (as individual media files). There are two additional options in the Version submenus of each clip in the Thumbnail timeline contextual menu that let you control which versions are rendered when you use Commercial Workflow.
— Render Disabled: Turning this option on excludes that version from being rendered when Commercial Workflow is enabled.
— Enable Flat Pass: Turning this option on forces the selected version to render with the grade turned off, essentially outputting the original media.
For more information on rendering versions using the Commercial Workflow option, see Chapter 187, “Rendering Media.”
Copying Grades
There are various methods you can use to copy grades from one clip to another. Which is appropriate to your need depends on your style of working with DaVinci Resolve.
Protecting Adjustments with the Copy Grade Options
Before going into the myriad of ways that grades can be copied from one clip to another, you should know of a series of options, available from the contextual menu of the Gallery (right-click anywhere in the gray area of the Gallery), that let you carefully specify grading, sizing, and stereo data to be preserved when overwriting grades in clips you’re copying to. There are three options: