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 Swap Grade: Exchanges the grades that are applied to the left- and right-eye clips.
 Swap Shot: A checkbox that, when enabled, switches the actual media used by two
corresponding left- and right-eye clips. Useful in situations where the eyes of a stereo
3D clip were mislabeled, and you want to switch the clips without rebuilding both EDLs.
 Copy Right to Left: Copies the right-clip grade to the corresponding left-eye clip.
 Copy Left to Right: Copies the left-clip grade to the corresponding right-eye clip.
Batch Grade Management for Stereo 3D Projects
There are also a series of batch-processing commands that are useful for stereoscopic grading
that are available when you right-click one or more selected clips in the Thumbnail timeline:
 Stereo 3D Batch Copy: Copies every grade from the left-eye clips to the right-eye clips.
 Stereo 3D Batch Sync: Copies grades from one eye to the other only when their
node graphs have the same number of nodes. This prevents you from accidentally
overwriting a custom grade with a different node structure that was necessary to match
two eyes for a problem shot.
The Copy Grade, Swap Grade, Swap Shots, Ripple Link, and Switch Eye commands are also
available from the Stereo submenu of the Timeline contextual menu.
Automatic Image Processing for Stereo 3D
It’s common during stereoscopic shoots for minor divergences in geometry and color to appear
in the source footage. To make the process of grading stereo 3D media less onerous,
DaVinci Resolve provides a set of auto-adjustment controls at the right of the Stereo 3D palette
that gives you a starting point for matching left- and right-eye clips together.
Auto align and color match buttons
Options for Auto Processing
You can choose which frame should be used to automatically analyze and process stereo clips
using the Alignment and Matching controls from the Stereo 3D palette option menu. You can
choose Auto Process > First or Middle, depending on what works best for your media.
Auto Process—Stereo Alignment
For the stereoscopic effect to work without causing headaches, it’s critical that both eyes are
aligned. This can be tricky to adjust using manual controls, but is something that can be
automatically analyzed. You can perform stereo 3D alignment to a single clip, or you can select
a range of clips to align all of them automatically at once. There are two options. Which is more
appropriate depends on the type of geometry issues you’re needing to address.
 Transform Alignment: Analyzes the image and makes vertical and rotational
adjustments to line up the left- and right-eye images as closely as possible.
 Vertical Skew: Analyzes the images and makes a vertical-only adjustment to line up the
left- and right-eye images.
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