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Choosing Which Aspect of a Grade to Apply with All/Color/Sizing
When applying grades using any of the techniques described in this section, you can use the All/Color/ Sizing setting that are available via the Mark > Keyframe Timeline Mode submenu, the drop-down menu that’s visible at the upper-right of the Keyframes Editor, or your DaVinci control panel. When copying a grade in conjunction with the settings in this menu, the following rules apply:
— All: When All is selected, both the grade and the sizing are copied.
— Color: Only the grade is copied, the target clip retains its original Input Sizing settings.
— Sizing: Only the Input Sizing is copied, the target clip retains its original grade.
Choosing How to Copy Keyframes
When copying or applying grades that have keyframes, you can choose how these keyframes are copied via a setting in the Gallery contextual menu by right-clicking anywhere in the gray background area of the Gallery, and choosing one of these options from the Apply Grades Using submenu. There are three options:
— No Keyframes: No keyframes are copied. The state of the grade at the frame used to save the still is what is applied to the target clip or clips.
— Keyframes Aligning Source Timecode: Keyframes are copied aligning the source timecode of the saved grade with the source timecode of the target clip. This is the ideal setting when you’re copying a grade back to the clip it came from originally, or to a duplicate of that clip elsewhere in the Timeline, and you want the keyframes to align with the same frames as before. If there is no source timecode overlap, keyframes will be pasted aligning with the start frame of the edit, the same as the third option (below).
— Keyframes Aligning Start Frame: Keyframes are copied aligning the start frame of the clip that still was saved from with the start frame of the target clip. This is the ideal setting when you’re copying a grade with keyframes from one clip to a completely different clip, with different timecode.
From that point on, keyframes, should they exist, will be copied or applied using the selected method whenever you copy a grade using any of the previously described methods.
Copying Grades Using the Pointer
An incredibly easy way of copying a grade from one clip to another, or from a still or memory in the Gallery to a clip, is by using the third button of your mouse, usually mapped as the “middle-click” of the mouse scroll wheel.
1 Select the clip thumbnail you want to copy the grade to in the Timeline; a single selected clip appears highlighted orange. If you want to copy a grade to several clips, you can either
Command-click multiple non-adjacent clips, or Shift-click a continuous range of clips; multiple selected clips appear highlighted red.
2 Middle-click the clip thumbnail, Gallery still, or memory you want to copy the grade˛from.
The grade of the clip you middle-clicked is copied to the previously selected clip or clips.
TIP: If you’re using a trackpad, third-party software may allow you to define a “three-finger- click” that works the same as mouse button 3. If you’re a pen and tablet or trackball user, you may be able to define a stylus or other button to perform the same button-3 action.
TIP: If you’re using a trackpad, third-party software may allow you to define a “three-finger- click” that works the same as mouse button 3. If you’re a pen and tablet or trackball user, you may be able to define a stylus or other button to perform the same button-3 action.
TIP: If you’re using a trackpad, third-party software may allow you to define a “three-finger- click” that works the same as mouse button 3. If you’re a pen and tablet or trackball user, you may be able to define a stylus or other button to perform the same button-3 action.