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PowerGrade Albums
PowerGrade albums are meant to be repositories for grades you want to reuse frequently, or for
stills that you need to reference from multiple projects, such as when grading a series that
shares common looks from episode to episode.
PowerGrades are associated with your user login
Unlike stills saved to the other albums in the list, which are ordinarily available only to the
project in which they were saved, stills saved to a PowerGrade album are shared among all
projects that have been stored within a particular database. Each database has its own unique
PowerGrade album.
Creating a new database creates a new PowerGrade album, which starts out as a clean slate.
However, you can always use the Gallery window to copy PowerGrade stills from other projects
and databases to the current one, and you can create as many PowerGrade albums as you
need to organize your grades. For more information about project management and databases,
see Chapter 2, “Managing Projects and Databases.
Functionally, PowerGrade albums are identical to any other album, and you can save, organize,
and use stills in PowerGrade albums as you would with other albums. Since PowerGrade
albums are special in that they’re maintained by DaVinci Resolve, the last PowerGrade album
cannot be deleted.
Browse all Grades from
the Current Timeline
The Gallery has a Timelines album, available at the bottom of the Album list, that lets you
browse all the grades in the current timeline, or in other timelines of the current project (using a
drop-down menu that appears at the top of the Gallery browser area), making it easy to copy
grades from earlier or later in your timeline, or from other timelines that share the same media.
This is particularly useful for reality shows or documentaries where the same clips can appear
multiple times in different parts of a program. Being able to simply show all existing grades in
the Gallery frees you from having to save a still for every grade you think you might
eventually reuse.
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