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A stylistic adjustment applied to the Group Post-Clip mode
At this point, the scene is graded via a well organized set of corrections. If the client later wants
a change affecting the underlying primary grade that everything is built on, you can adjust the
Pre-Clip grade. If you spot an inconsistency with your shot matching at any point, you can make
a fast tweak to the relevant Clip grade. And if the client wants a stylistic change, you can make
any necessary adjustments to the Post-Clip grade to change the overall look of the whole
scene. In each case, groups give you total control over which adjustments will ripple across the
whole group, and which adjustments will be clip-specific.
Using Undo in Groups
Each Node Editor mode has a separate undo stack, meaning that separate multiple-level undo
is saved for Group Pre-Clip, Clip, and Group Post-Clip.
Saving Stills and Grades in Groups
When you save a still for a clip that’s part of a group, the result is that the still reflects the look of
the combined Pre-Clip, Clip, and Post-Clip node trees, but the grade that’s saved within
depends on the Node Editor mode you had selected when saving the still. For example, if the
Node Editor is set to Group Pre-Clip, then you’ll only save the Pre-Clip grade; the Clip, Group
Post-Clip, and Track grades will be ignored. Copying a saved grade to a clip in a group results
in that grade being copied to the node tree of whichever Node Editor mode is currently open.
Collapse Group Grades
If you want to take a clip out of a group, but you want its grade to continue incorporating all
adjustments made in the Pre-Group and Post-Group Node Editor modes, you can use the
Collapse Group Grades command to copy all nodes in the Pre-Group and Post-Group grades to
the Clip grade. When you do this, Pre-Group nodes are added before any pre-existing nodes in
the Clip grade, and all Post-Group nodes are added after, in order to maintain the correct order
of operations.
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