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Aligning Keyframes to a Specific Frame While Copying Grades
If you need to copy a grade with keyframes so that the start keyframe of the copied grade aligns with a specific frame of the Timeline, you can do so using the following procedure:
1 Save a grade with keyframes as a Gallery still by right-clicking the Viewer and choosing Grab Still.
2 Choose the clip you want to copy the saved grade to in the Thumbnail timeline.
3 Double-click the Gallery still to wipe it against the current clip in the Viewer.
4 Move the playhead to the frame of this clip you want the first keyframe of the saved grade to be aligned with.
5 Right-click the Viewer and choose Apply Grade > Align Keyframes to Current Frame.
Copying Individual Nodes and Settings
Copying grades from clip to clip copies everything except for keyframes and motion tracking. However, there is one way you can copy the motion tracking from one clip to another, and that’s by copying and pasting individual node settings. This can save time when you’re assembling complicated node trees by recycling specific nodes or node settings from previous grades.
Copying and Pasting All Settings From One Node to Another
The simplest thing you can do is to copy all of a node’s settings, and paste them into another node. This makes it easy to duplicate things like windows, qualifier settings, keyframing, or motion tracking that you want to reuse in another node as the basis for another operation. This is also a quick way to manually ripple a change you make in a node to that same node in another clip’s grade.
— Option-drag one node onto another. When you drop it, the settings of the node you dragged overwrite those of the node you dropped onto.
— Select a node with settings you want to copy and choose Edit > Copy (Command-C). Then, select a node you want to paste these settings to either in the current grade or in the grade of another
clip, or create a new node, and choose Edit > Paste (Command-V) to paste the settings you copied. These pasted node settings overwrite any other settings that node previously used.