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More About Timelines and Grading
DaVinci Resolve projects contain one or more edited timelines (sometimes called a sequence in
other applications) which are also organized in the Media Pool, and displayed in the Timeline
Editor (referred to as “the Timeline”). Timelines contain clips, the source media of which is kept
in the Media Pool, and which also appear as edit events in the Edit Index that can be shown at
the right of the Timeline.
Timelines, Grades, and Versions
Within any given timeline, grades are associated with the timecode of the source clip they’re
applied to. That means that as you alter the timeline, each clip’s grade moves along with it,
making it extremely easy to move back and forth between editing and grading as your needs
require. By default, each timeline in a project has independent sets of grades using local
versions; this is true even if your timelines are duplicates. That means each clip within every
timeline has a completely independent grade.
However, if you switch the clips in one or more timelines to use Remote versions, a clip’s grades
are shared by every instance of that clip in all timelines with clips that also use Remote versions.
If you import a new timeline that rearranges clips into a different order and switch it to using
Remote versions, then grades will automatically follow the clips, so that the clips within each
new timeline inherits the grades applied to those same clips in other timelines.
You can switch a timeline between using Local and Remote grades at any time. For more
information on using Local versus Remote versions, see Chapter 123, “Grade Management.
Youcan also copy grades from one timeline to another using the ColorTrace feature. For more
information about ColorTrace, see Chapter 129, “Copying and Importing Grades Using
ColorTrace.
Enabling the Use of a Master Timeline
Previous versions of DaVinci Resolve had a Master Timeline, which consisted of one long
timeline containing every clip in the Media Pool, arranged by default in ascending order by
timecode. While the Master Timeline was useful for a variety of tasks, architectural
improvements have rendered it unnecessary, and by default the Master Timeline does not
appear in new projects created by DaVinci Resolve version 10 or later.
However, if you want a Master Timeline in order to have a single timeline that always contains
all clips currently in the Media Pool, there’s a way you can create one. You need to do it
immediately upon creating a new project, before adding any media to the Media Pool. Once
you’ve added one or more clips to the Media Pool, the option you need to do so will
be disabled.
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