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Keyframes and Saved Stills
If you save a still from a clip using keyframes within the grade, by default keyframes are not
saved. However, the still and grade that are saved reflect whatever parameter values are
contained by the next keyframe to the left of the position of the playhead. For example, if a clip
has a dynamically keyframed transition from a saturation of 50 to a saturation of 0, and you
place the playhead right in the middle of both keyframes when you save a still, the grade and
still that are saved have a saturation of 50.
However, if you right-click the background of the Gallery, choose one of the options within the
“Apply Grades Using” submenu, and choose the appropriate “Keyframes Aligning…” options,
then grades saved within a still are saved with the keyframes, which reference the source
timecode, or start frame of the original clips. This means that if you apply a saved grade with
keyframes to a clip, the keyframes will automatically be placed at matching frames that
correspond to the source timecode or start frame of the original clip. This makes it easy to copy
a grade with keyframes to the same clip elsewhere in the Timeline, but it may not provide the
desired results if you’re applying a grade with keyframes from one clip to a completely
different one.
Adding EDL Marks
Just as clip grades are separate from the timeline grade that can be applied to the entire
Timeline, so clip keyframes are separate from timeline keyframes. Keyframes you apply to the
timeline grade work exactly the same as clip keyframes. However, there is one extra option you
have when keyframing the timeline grade.
If you find yourself wanting to adjust a timeline grade individually to take into account variations
from one clip to the next, you can use the Add EDL Marks on Tracks command to add a Static
keyframe (mark) to the Keyframe Editor at the position of every edit point in the entire Timeline.
To add EDL marks:
1 Choose Timeline from the Node Editor’s mode drop-down menu.
2 If you want to keyframe a grade, then create whatever grade you need to apply to
the entire Timeline. If you want to keyframe Sizing settings, you don’t need to do
anythingelse.
3 Right-click the Corrector track or the Sizing track in the Keyframe Editor, and choose
Add EDL Marks on Tracks.
Marks appear at the frame of every edit point in the Timeline. You may want to widen
the Keyframe Editor to make it easier to work with all these keyframes.
After you’ve added EDL marks, you can delete them if you decide you don’t want
them any more.
To delete EDL marks:
 Right-click the Corrector track in the Keyframe Editor, and choose Delete EDL Marks on
Tracks.
If you’ve added your own keyframes in addition to the EDL marks, then the Delete EDL Marks
on Tracks command only eliminates the EDL marks. Your custom marks are left alone.
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