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In the process of creating a node tree, it’s often useful to turn one or more selected nodes off to disable their effect on your grade. It’s also useful to turn the entire node tree off and on in order to see “before and after” views of the current clip. Disabled nodes are not processed during rendering, and they remain disabled when you save that grade along with a still in the Gallery and then apply that grade to another shot.
Disabling Individual Nodes
Disabling a single node is useful for temporarily disabling adjustments that you don’t think you want to use but don’t want to discard (however you should remember that it’s alarmingly easy to
inadvertently turn these nodes back on again). It’s also good for giving your client a before and after preview of the last adjustment.
— Click the number of any node in the node graph to disable that node by itself.
— Select a single node, and choose Color > Nodes > Enable/Disable Selected Nodes (Command-D).
Disabling Multiple Nodes All At Once
If you select more than one node in the node tree, using any of the methods of turning nodes off and on described above (including Command-D) will toggle Enable/Disable Selected Nodes. Please note that the current node outlined in orange is always considered to be part of the selection.
This makes it easy to do before/after comparisons of any combination of nodes doing complicated adjustments by selecting them, while leaving un-selected nodes doing base adjustments that you want to leave enabled alone.
Disabling All Nodes
In addition to the Bypass All Grades command, disabling all nodes of a grade at once is another easy way of disabling a grade to provide a before and after of the original state of the clip (or the color managed state of the clip if Resolve Color Management (RCM) is enabled). More importantly, it’s a good way to disable all nodes of a grade in preparation for walking your client through each operation in that grade node by node, as you turn each node on in turn while narrating how it’s improving
the image.
IMPORTANT: When you turn every node off and then on again, every node is re-enabled, even nodes that had previously been individually disabled.
IMPORTANT: When you turn every node off and then on again, every node is re-enabled, even nodes that had previously been individually disabled.
IMPORTANT: When you turn every node off and then on again, every node is re-enabled, even nodes that had previously been individually disabled.
— Choose Color > Nodes > Enable/Disable All Nodes (Option-D) to toggle all nodes off and on.