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— Right-click a clip’s thumbnail in the Thumbnail timeline, and choose Collapse Group Grades from the contextual menu.
Using Collapse Group Grades on a clip always removes that clip from whatever group it was previously a member of. This can also be an easy way of creating a single flat node tree in preparation for saving a grade to the Gallery for applying to other clips that aren’t themselves in groups.
Groups and Versions
Local or Remote versions you create relate only to the Clip grade. Group Pre-Clip and Group Post-Clip grades cannot be versioned.
Exporting Grades and LUTs
If you find it necessary to exchange grades with other workstations, there are two ways you can do so directly: by exporting grades, or LUTs. This section discusses the export of Grades; for more information about exporting LUTs, see Chapter 147, “Using LUTs.”
1 Save the grade you want to export as a still in the Gallery.
2 Right-click the saved still in the Gallery, and choose Export.
3 Select the image format you want to save the still as. Choices include: DPX, Cineon, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PPM, BMP, and XPM.
4 Choose a location for the resulting still image and saved grade files, type a name into the Save As field, and click Save.
Two files are saved. The image file contains the still image of the frame that was stored. A DRX (DaVinci Resolve eXchange) file contains all the grading information.
1 Right-click anywhere in the gray area of the Gallery, and choose Import.
2 Click the Options button to select the specific file type you want to import, or select “All Files” for multiple formats.
3 Choose the image file that was exported from your DaVinci Resolve workstation, or someone else’s. The accompanying DRX file must be in the same location. If you lose the original image file, you can still import the DRX file by itself. It will preserve the node structure of the still, but you will not be able to wipe against it.
The still you imported appears in the Gallery, containing the grading information you wanted to import.