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— Copy Grade: Preserve number of nodes: Lets you choose 0–10 nodes to be protected when applying a grade. When set to 1, the first node of the copied grade is ignored, but all other nodes are copied. When set to 5, the first five nodes of a copied grade are ignored, as long as there are at least five nodes in the grade of the clip you’re copying to. This option is useful for colorists who routinely use the first few nodes for shot matching and scene balancing, with additional nodes applying individual or stylistic adjustments.
— Copy Grade: Preserve Camera Raw Settings: When enabled, the camera raw Source settings of the current clip are preserved, letting you apply stylistic grades from unrelated clips without overwriting clip-specific source settings.
— Copy Grade: Preserve Input Sizing: When enabled, Input Sizing adjustments are not overwritten by those of the copied grade.
— Copy Grade: Preserve Convergence: When enabled, Convergence adjustments in the Stereo 3D palette are not overwritten by those of the copied grade.
— Copy Grade: Preserve Floating Windows: When enabled, Floating Windows adjustments in the Stereo 3D palette are not overwritten by those of the copied grade.
— Copy Grade: Preserve Auto Align: When enabled, Auto Alignment adjustments in the Stereo 3D palette are not overwritten by those of the copied grade.
— Copy Grade: Preserve Dolby Vision™ Analysis Metadata: When enabled, Dolby Vision Analysis Metadata is not overwritten by that of the copied grade. Only available if you’re set up to do Dolby Vision grading. For more information, see Chapter 9, “Data Levels, Color Management, and ACES.”
— Copy Grade: Preserve Dolby Vision™ Trim Metadata: When enabled, Dolby Vision Trim Metadata in the Dolby Vision palette is not overwritten by that of the copied grade. Only available if you’re set up to do Dolby Vision grading. For more information, see Chapter 9, “Data Levels, Color Management, and ACES.”
Copy and Paste From One Clip to Another
The simplest way to copy color adjustments from one clip and apply them to another clip is to use the same Edit > Copy and Paste commands shared with nearly every other application ever made. However, you can use this straightforward functionality in one of two ways, depending on the focus of the interface.
— If you click on the clip in the Thumbnail Timeline, you copy and paste the entire grade from one clip to another.
— If you click inside the Node Editor, you copy and paste only the selected node to another selected node.
You can override this focus-based selection, and make the default behavior to only copy between nodes rather than entire grades regardless of the interface focus. Do this by checking the “Always perform copy and paste on selected nodes” box in the Color section of the User panel in Preferences.
— To copy and paste an entire grade: Choose a clip with a grade you want to copy, and press Command-C. Then select the clip you want to copy the grade to in the Thumbnail Timeline, and choose Command-V to paste the entire grade.
— To copy and paste a single node: Choose a clip with a node you want to copy, and press Command-C. Then select the clip you want to copy the node to in the Thumbnail Timeline, and then click anywhere inside the Node Editor. Then choose Command-V to paste the node that was selected when you copied to the currently selected node in the node tree.