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 Group Post-Clip: Node trees assembled in this mode also affect every clip in the group
simultaneously, but these adjustments are applied after the Clip adjustments. Post-Clip
adjustments can be useful for applying a creative look to an overall scene, so that later
revisions to a scene’s look can be accomplished with a single set of adjustments that
automatically affect the entire group.
 Timeline: Node trees assembled in this mode affect every single clip in the entire
Timeline. Timeline adjustments are useful when you have a single change that you
want to apply to every single clip at once.
The image processing of each Node Editor mode is sequential, making it easy to keep track of
the order of operations affecting a particular clip.
An Example of Grading a Group of Clips
This section shows an example of how you might approach grading a group of clips using the
different Node Editor modes that are available. Keep in mind that this is only one of many
possible approaches you could take to the use of groups, and was chosen because it exercises
everything you can do to a single grade.
To get started, select a series of clips that you want to group, and right-click one of them and
choose Create New Group to group them together, entering a name and clicking OK when
prompted. One convenient advantage of simply creating groups from a selection is that you’re
not limited to selecting a continuous range of clips in the Timeline. Another advantage is that
you can use the View > Timeline Thumbnail Mode > Source (C-mode) command, or Timeline
filtering, to isolate the range of clips you want to use for creating a group.
There are different ways you might choose to group clips together:
 All clips within a particular scene
 All clips recorded from a specific camera
 All headshots of a particular person
 All clips from a particular angle of coverage
 All exteriors of a particular location
The list could go on and on, but you get the idea. You can group any selection of clips together
that have reason to share a common grade. In this example, a series of shots from an exterior
scene are selected and made into a group.
Clips made into a group
Once you’ve created a group, choose Group Pre-Clip from the Node Editor mode drop-down.
This is the first grade that’s applied, as the underlying grade that affects the entire group. Using
this node tree, adding a LUT to normalize the clips, a Color Wheel adjustment, and some Curve
adjustments to tune the color provide a primary grade that now affects every single clip in
the group.
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