Locking Shared Nodes

‌Creating Shared Nodes‌‌‌

Creating a Shared node is easy, assuming you’ve created a node that has an adjustment you’d like to share among multiple clips.

To create a Shared node:

— Right-click any Corrector node and choose Save as Shared node.

Once you turn a node into a Shared node, that node is automatically locked, preventing you from accidentally making adjustments to it that would affect all other grades using that same Shared node.

To toggle the locked status of a Shared node, do one of the following:

— Right-click any Shared node and choose Lock Node from the contextual menu.

— Open the Keyframe Editor, and click the Lock icon in the track header of that node’s keyframe track.

Copying Shared Nodes

Because Shared nodes are essentially Corrector nodes within clip grades, they’re easy to work with. Once you’ve created one or more Shared nodes, there are a variety of ways you can copy them to the grades of other clips in your program to take advantage of the linked adjustments they let you make.

Ways of copying Shared nodes among multiple clips:

— Add a Shared node to another clip’s grade using the Node Editor contextual menu: Once you save a node as a Shared node, it becomes available from the bottom of the Add Node submenu

of the Node Editor contextual menu, making it easy to add any Shared node to any clip. If you customize the label of the Shared node, that custom label appears in the contextual menu, making it easier to find what you’re looking for.

— Add Shared nodes to a basic grade you’ll be copying to other clips: If you create one or more Shared nodes when you initially build a grade, copying that grade to other clips naturally copies the Shared nodes as well.

— Save a Shared node as a Gallery still and apply it to other clips: If you save a grade with a Shared node in it to the Gallery, then every time you copy that Gallery still to another clip, you copy its Shared node.

— Create a Shared node and append it to a selection of additional clips: If you’ve already graded several clips in a scene, you can add a Shared node to the end of one of the clips grades and

make sure it’s selected, then select all of the other clips in the scene and choose Append Node to Selected Clips.

— Use Shared nodes to preserve linked adjustments when copying remote grades

to local grades: If you use Shared nodes to make your base adjustments when you grade using Remote Versions to automatically copy those grades to other clips that come from the same source media, those adjustments will remain linked when you copy your remote versions to local versions for fine tuning.

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