Rendering Versions and Original side by side

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Rendering Versions and Original side by side

PostSun Jan 29, 2023 11:07 pm

I have some clips that I color graded and I would like to render them with the original and the graded version side by side, just as displayed in the viewer when selecting "Versions and Original". Is there an easy way to do that or do I have to sort of duplicate the video in Fusion?
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Re: Rendering Versions and Original side by side

PostMon Jan 30, 2023 1:39 am

c010r15t wrote:I have some clips that I color graded and I would like to render them with the original and the graded version side by side, just as displayed in the viewer when selecting "Versions and Original". Is there an easy way to do that or do I have to sort of duplicate the video in Fusion?

There are numerous tutorials on YouTube explaining how to do it. You could render the final-color version, then bring that flattened file back into Resolve, place it on a higher track above the project, and bypass the color correction. Once you do that, it's a question of creating a transition showing the "Before and After."

If it were me, I would skip the Before for the simple reason that ungraded material is kind of misleading: it may not represent what the DP intended, particularly if you're going back to the Log footage.
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Re: Rendering Versions and Original side by side

PostMon Jan 30, 2023 9:19 am

For my own amusement I did this. With the graded timeline parked at a suitable point I then lined up the original clip in the Source viewer to match and then selected Gang Viewers in the top right 3 dots menu. You can then run both together in step.
This was merely for viewing not rendering.
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Re: Rendering Versions and Original side by side

PostMon Jan 30, 2023 3:49 pm

If you're not using RCM or ACES, just duplicate the clip above itself and Reset the grade on that, then Crop to reveal the graded clip underneath.
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Re: Rendering Versions and Original side by side

PostMon Jan 30, 2023 8:58 pm

Thank you all very much for the quick replies, I did it by copying the graded clips to a second track above it and repositioning/cropping them and it worked fine :) I think I will suggest rendering directly from the viewer as a feature, it seems like this would be very useful for a a lot of people to create demo reels etc.
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