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To append a saved grade or memory using the DaVinci control panel:
1 Select the clip you want to append a grade to using the PREV SCENE or NEXT SCENE
buttons of the Jog/Shuttle panel.
2 Press NEXT STILL or PREV STILL to select the still with a grade that you want
to append.
3 Press PLAY STILL to wipe the selected still against the current clip.
4 Press SHIFT UP and then press NEXT STILL to append the nodes of the grade from the
selected still to the current clip.
Once you’ve appended a compound node, you can open it up to access and modify its
contents as you would any other compound node. For more information on compound nodes,
see Chapter 124, “Node Editing Basics.”
Aligning Keyframes to a Specific Frame
While Copying Grades
If you need to copy a grade with keyframes so that the start keyframe of the copied grade
aligns with a specific frame of the Timeline, you can do so using the following procedure:
To copy a grade and align its keyframes to a specific frame of the Timeline:
1 Save a grade with keyframes as a Gallery still by right-clicking the Viewer and choosing
Grab Still.
2 Choose the clip you want to copy the saved grade to in the Thumbnail timeline.
3 Double-click the Gallery still to wipe it against the current clip in the Viewer.
4 Move the playhead to the frame of this clip you want the first keyframe of the saved
grade to be aligned with.
5 Right-click the Viewer and choose Apply Grade > Align Keyframes to Current Frame.
Copying Individual Nodes and Settings
Copying grades from clip to clip copies everything except for keyframes and motion tracking.
However, there is one way you can copy the motion tracking from one clip to another, and that’s
by copying and pasting individual node settings. This can save time when you’re assembling
complicated node trees by recycling specific nodes or node settings from previous grades.
Copying and Pasting All Settings From One
Node to Another
The simplest thing you can do is to copy all of a node’s settings, and paste them into another
node. This makes it easy to duplicate things like windows, qualifier settings, keyframing, or
motion tracking that you want to reuse in another node as the basis for another operation.
This is also a quick way to manually ripple a change you make in a node to that same node in
another clip’s grade.
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