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Once created, the Master Timeline contains every clip in the Media Pool of the current project.
If you color correct the clips in the Master Timeline, you’ll find there’s only one set of versions
available, found underneath the Local submenu of the Color Page timeline’s contextual menu.
It’s important to understand that local versions within the Master Timeline are in fact the remote
versions found in every other timeline of that project.
In fact, it would be fair to say that the remote versions found in other timelines are actually the
Master Timeline’s versions. When you grade a clip in the Master Timeline, those grades ripple
out to every other instance of that clip, in every other timeline within that project, via
remote versions.
Sharing of remote versions among the Master Timeline and newly conformed timelines is why
you can grade a collection of clips that you import into DaVinci Resolve without any editorial
structure, grade and output offline media, and then reimport a project file that relinks to the
original clips along with their grades. It’s also why you can grade clips in one timeline, and then
import additional re-edited timelines via AAF, XML, or EDL, which automatically inherit all
remote versions of grades that were created in previous timelines.
Dierentiating Clips with Individual Versions
If you’ve enabled DaVinci Resolve to add clips with remote versions, there are times when you
may want to suspend automatic linking. As convenient as automatic grade rippling among
linked remote versions is, there are many instances where you may need to stop it. For
example, if the Media Pool contains a source media file with the entire content of an interview,
then every clip that has been conformed to that source media will be linked, which is ordinarily
good since you’d expect they’d all share the same grade. However, if the DP fiddled with the
exposure of the camera in the middle of the interview, such that some clips are lighter and
others are darker, you may find yourself needing to make different adjustments to clips from
different parts of the interview.
One way of doing this, which can be useful in timelines where you only need to make a few of
these kinds of changes, is to create a new remote version for every clip to which you need to
make an individual adjustment. Since each version is its own grade, and differently named
versions don’t link to one another, this is a simple solution.
To suspend linking by creating a new remote version:
1 Move the playhead to the clip you need to alter individually.
2 Do one of the following:
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Choose Color > Grade Version > Add (Command-Y).
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Right-click the thumbnail in the Timeline, and choose Remote Versions >
Create New Version.
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Using the DaVinci control panel, press ADD VERSION on the T-bar panel.
3 Grade the new version that’s appeared.
While this method works well, keep in mind that multiple linked clips using the same version
number will always be linked with one another. In other words, suppose Clip 1, Clip 3, and Clip 5
are linked using the default Version 1, which has a strong blue grade applied.
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