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You can also set every clip in the entire timeline to use local versions. If you switch an entire
timeline to local versions, then no clip in that timeline will be linked to any other unless you
create a group (covered later in this chapter). This is the default state, but it’s useful even when
you’ve switched to using remote versions when you want to grade one timeline differently from
the others in a project, for example when doing a trim pass for another video or stereo 3D
format, or when grading another cut, such as a trailer, that uses the same media but requires a
different look.
To suspend linking by switching from remote versions to local versions:
Right-click any clip thumbnail, and choose one of the following commands:
 Use Local Grades: Switches all clips to their local versions. If there are already local
versions defined for each clip, those will appear. If there are no local versions yet
defined, each clip will be ungraded.
 Copy Remote Grades to Local: Copies the currently assigned remote version of each
clip to a local version.
Because Undo is used only for individual clip operations, the Use Local Grades and Copy
Remote Grades To Local commands cannot be undone. However, switching a timeline from
remote to local versions is not a one-way trip. You can select Use Remote Grades to switch
every clip in a timeline back to the remote versions at any time.
To switch a timeline back to using remote versions:
 Right-click any clip thumbnail, and choose Use Remote Grades.
Furthermore, you can also copy the local grades you made to be remote grades, for instances
where you started grading with local grades, and you want to switch to remote grading using
your local grades as a starting point. Be aware that when you do this in a timeline with many
clips that share the same source media, the grade of the very last shared clip in the Timeline will
be the only remote grade that’s used for those auto-linked clips.
To copy each clip’s local grade to a remote grade for every clip in the current timeline:
 Right-click any clip thumbnail, and choose Copy Local Grades to Remote.
If you’re switching back and forth between local and remote versions, keep the following
rules in mind:
 If you select Use Remote Grades, change your remote grades, and then Copy Remote
Grades To Local on that timeline again, you’ll overwrite all of your previously graded
local versions. This is a good workflow if you don’t like what you’ve done with your local
versions, and you want to start over by recopying the remote versions.
 If you select Use Remote Grades, change your remote grades, and then select Use
Local Grades, you’ll return to your previously graded local versions, as they were
before you selected Use Remote Grades. This is a good workflow if you just want to
switch back to your remote versions in order to copy the remote versions of specific
clips to local versions.
Working with Versions
Each clip can have as many local and remote versions as you like. There are commands for
creating, renaming, and deleting the versions that are available to each clip when using the
pointer, keyboard shortcuts, or the DaVinci control panel. When using the DaVinci control panel,
the buttons affect whichever type of version (remote or local) is currently applied to the
current clip.
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