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Disabling Nodes
In the process of creating a node tree, it’s often useful to turn one or more selected nodes off to
disable their effect on your grade. It’s also useful to turn the entire node tree off and on in order
to see “before and after” views of the current clip. Disabled nodes are not processed during
rendering, and they remain disabled when you save that grade along with a still in the Gallery
and then apply that grade to another shot.
Disabling Individual Nodes
Disabling a single node is useful for temporarily disabling adjustments that you don’t think you
want to use but don’t want to discard (however you should remember that it’s alarmingly easy to
inadvertently turn these nodes back on again). It’s also good for giving your client a before and
after preview of the last adjustment.
To toggle individual nodes off and on, do one of the following:
 Click the number of any node in the node graph to disable that node by itself.
 Select a single node, and choose Color > Nodes > Enable/Disable Selected Nodes
(Command-D).
 On the DaVinci control panel, press the DISABLE CURRENT button (on the T-bar panel).
Disabling Multiple Nodes All At Once
If you select more than one node in the node tree, using any of the methods of turning nodes
off and on described above (including Command-D) will toggle Enable/Disable Selected Nodes.
Please note that the current node outlined in orange is always considered to be part of the
selection.
This makes it easy to do before/after comparisons of any combination of nodes doing
complicated adjustments by selecting them, while leaving un-selected nodes doing base
adjustments that you want to leave enabled alone.
Disabling All Nodes
In addition to the Bypass All Grades command, disabling all nodes of a grade at once is another
easy way of disabling a grade to provide a before and after of the original state of the clip (or
the color managed state of the clip if Resolve Color Management (RCM) is enabled). More
importantly, it’s a good way to disable all nodes of a grade in preparation for walking your client
through each operation in that grade node by node, as you turn each node on in turn while
narrating how it’s improving the image.
To turn every node off and on at once, do one of the following:
 Choose Color > Nodes > Enable/Disable All Nodes (Option-D) to
toggle all nodes off and on.
 On the DaVinci control panel, press SHIFT-DOWN and then the
DISABLE CURRENT button (on the T-bar panel).
IMPORTANT When you turn every node off and then on again, every node is re-
enabled, even nodes that had previously been individually disabled.
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