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Turning Grades and/or Fusion Effects Off
The Bypass Color Grades and Fusion Effects button/drop-down commands in the Viewer’s title
bar are also available via View > Bypass Color and Fusion menu commands. Turning off Fusion
effects in the Color page is an easy way to improve playback performance on low power
systems when you just need to make a quick set of grading adjustments. Toggling grades off
and on is also a convenient way to quickly get a before-and-after look at a shot where the
“before” goes all the way back to the source.
If you choose Toggle Bypass or click the Viewer control, you’ll turn off whatever is checked in
the optional menu, which lets you choose whether or not you want to bypass both Color and
Fusion, or just one or the other.
(Left) Menu commands for bypassing Color and Fusion,
(Right) Edit page Timeline Viewer controls
TIP: If you’re giving your client a before and after look at work you’re doing on a grade,
a more effective technique is to select the specific nodes (one or more) that you want
to toggle on and off, and press Command-D (Enable/Disable Selected Nodes.)
Viewing Isolated Channels
Use the View > Viewer Channels submenu to switch the Color page Viewer among RGB, R, G,
or B channels. This can be useful when evaluating a single channel of an image for noise or
other artifacts, or for doing color matching by comparing and adjusting the individual red,
green, and blue channels of two different clips.
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