User Manual

How Grades Are Linked to
Multiple Timelines
If you’ve set your project up to use Remote versions, then any clips that refer to the same file in
the Media Pool are linked and share the same Remote versions of grades that are applied to
them. For example, two clips that are close-ups from the same take refer to the same media file,
so they’re both automatically linked to one another and share the same remote grades.
Clips using Remote versions also exhibit this behavior when they appear in multiple timelines.
Clips using Remote versions that are located in different timelines, but that refer to the same file
in the Media Pool, are linked and share the same remote versions of grades. This is why you
can grade one timeline, and then import a re-edited version via EDL, AAF, or XML, and have the
new timeline automatically inherit all grades from the previous timeline.
However, you can override this behavior to have one timeline that’s independently graded from
the others. Simply select that timeline, open the Color page, right-click any clip in the Thumbnail
timeline, and choose Copy Remote Grades to Local from the contextual menu. All grades are
copied to Local versions, and from that point on all changes you make to grades in that timeline
have no effect on the other timelines in your project.
For more information about Local and Remote versions, see Chapter 123, “Grade Management.”
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