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Effects clips are a fast and easily revised way to apply one or more grades and effects to a
range of clips.
TIP: Multiple adjustment layers can be grouped together so that you can apply Group
and Clip grades to adjustment layers, linking multiple adjustment layers together in
situations where you want to apply the exact same trim or stylistic adjustment to
multiple scenes in non-contiguous areas of the Timeline.
Using Groups
Grouping is one of DaVinci Resolve’s most powerful features for organizing grades amongst
multiple clips. Groups are manually created collections of clips with automatic linking
relationships that make it easy for you to control the rippling of grades among sets of clips that
you define. When clips have been grouped together, selecting one member of the group
reveals a group “linked” badge at the top-right of each clip’s thumbnail belonging to the group.
The green link icon indicates
this clip is in a group
You can create as many groups within a single project as you need. You can add or remove
shots from the current group, and the current group is defined by the last shot you’ve selected
(if it belongs to a group, that’s the new current group).
As introduced in DaVinci Resolve 11, the grading of grouped clips is easier than it has ever been.
Once grouped, you can choose from one of four Node Editor modes to grade the current clip.
Which mode you choose determines whether that grade will automatically ripple to every other
member of that group, or whether the grade will only affect that one clip. In this way, you can
combine multiple node trees, some which will ripple, and one which won’t, to create the final
look of each clip in that group.
For example, you might group together every clip from the same angle of coverage in a scene.
You might also group together every clip from a particular section of B-roll that will be graded
with the same treatment. This way, whenever you make a change or otherwise update one
member of the group using one of the rippled Node Editor modes, every clip in the group will
be changed together.
This section discusses how to create and manage groups, how best to use them, and what
issues you need to be aware of to use groups to best advantage.
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