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Grading Live
Once your camera and computer are appropriately connected and configured, using Resolve
Live is straightforward. This section describes the live grading workflow as it was designed to
be used. Once you’re familiar with the capabilities of Resolve Live, you may find your own ways
of working that are more in tune to the needs of your particular project.
Getting Started
When working with Resolve Live on a new shoot, you should begin with an empty project and a
new empty timeline, since the live grading workflow involves capturing live graded snapshots
to an otherwise unoccupied timeline. One recommended way of organizing the live grades of a
shoot is to create one new project per day of shooting. This way, snapshots captured during
shoots using all 24 hours of time-of-day timecode won’t conflict with one another. Also,
separate projects can make it easier to use ColorTrace to copy grades from your live grade
snapshots to the camera original media you’ll be creating dailies from, eventually.
TIP: Having an empty Media Pool and timeline doesn’t mean you can’t install useful
LUTs and pre-import reference stills and saved grades to the Gallery, as these can be
valuable tools for expediting your on-set grading.
Once you’ve created your new project, you also need to choose the disk where all snapshots
you take will be saved. By default, snapshots are saved on the scratch disk at the top of the
Scratch Disks list in the Media Storage panel of the System Preferences. They’re automatically
saved in a folder named identically to the current project.
Going Live
Once you’ve created your day’s project, you need to turn on Resolve Live to begin work.
To turn on Resolve Live:
1 Open the Color page.
2 Choose Color > Resolve Live (Command-R).
A red Resolve Live badge at the top of the Viewer indicates that Resolve Live is turned
on, and the transport controls are replaced by the Freeze and Snapshot buttons.
A red badge shows that Resolve Live is active and showing incoming video from the camera
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