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Rearranging Node Order
The order in which nodes are connected in your tree affects the result of a grade. For example,
if you boost the highlights in the first node, and then you try to isolate a portion of the picture in
a second node that you now realize has been clipped, you may to need to change your order of
operations to optimize your corrections.
To swap the contents of two nodes:
Command-drag any node and drop it onto another node to swap the operations within
each node. The nodes won’t appear to have moved, but you should be able to tell from
the node badges underneath that the operations have been reversed.
To move a node to any other position in the node tree:
1 Double-click any node in the node tree and press E to extract it, removing it from the
tree so that it becomes unattached.
2 Drag the now-unattached node to the connection line between any two other nodes in
the tree, and when a small plus icon appears, drop it to automatically connect that node
at that position in the node tree.
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.
To copy a node’s settings from one clip to another, do one of the following:
Option-drag one node onto another. When you drop it, the settings of the node you
dragged overwrite those of the node you dropped onto.
Select a node with settings you want to copy and choose Edit > Copy (Command-C).
Then, select a node you want to paste these settings to either in the current grade or in
the grade of another clip, or create a new node, and choose Edit > Paste (Command-V)
to paste the settings you copied. These pasted node settings overwrite any other
settings that node previously used.
NOTE: There are additional methods of copying nodes and individual node settings.
For more information, see Chapter 123, “Grade Management.
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