pre-grade THEN edit in Resolve?

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pre-grade THEN edit in Resolve?

PostSat Oct 20, 2018 12:18 am

I prefer to pre-grade all my footage before beginning to edit in Resolve. Once I have a first pass of color grading on all my clips, how do I edit with those color graded clips? Ideally, I'd like them to show up in the media pool with my grading applied. Is this possible?
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Re: pre-grade THEN edit in Resolve?

PostSat Oct 20, 2018 1:16 am

Use remote grades. See the manual, pp. 2066.


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Re: pre-grade THEN edit in Resolve?

PostSat Oct 20, 2018 3:52 am

Seth Goldin wrote:Use remote grades. See the manual, pp. 2066.


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Really? Read that over and watched as many tutorials as I could find, and doesn't seem to help with editing pre-graded footage. But thanks!
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Re: pre-grade THEN edit in Resolve?

PostSat Oct 20, 2018 5:08 am

jasonparker wrote:
Seth Goldin wrote:Use remote grades. See the manual, pp. 2066.


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Really? Read that over and watched as many tutorials as I could find, and doesn't seem to help with editing pre-graded footage. But thanks!


with remote grade you will have each instances of the same clip showing the same color even if you reedit the clip in a different timeline.
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Re: pre-grade THEN edit in Resolve?

PostSat Oct 20, 2018 5:46 am

waltervolpatto wrote:
jasonparker wrote:
Seth Goldin wrote:Use remote grades. See the manual, pp. 2066.


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Really? Read that over and watched as many tutorials as I could find, and doesn't seem to help with editing pre-graded footage. But thanks!


with remote grade you will have each instances of the same clip showing the same color even if you reedit the clip in a different timeline.



The manual talks about connecting to a second machine's IP address to sync your remote grades to. Is that the technique you're suggesting or is there a different way to use remote grades?
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Re: pre-grade THEN edit in Resolve?

PostSat Oct 20, 2018 6:49 am

Remote grades are applied grades linking to media clips, so all timeline clips which have a common source media file will share a grade. This also allows for new imported timelines to share the same grades as the original timeline. It is NOT 'remote grading'. If you right click on a timeline thumbnail in the colour page, there is a 'use remote grades' and 'use local grades' option. You WILL need to read the manual to fully understand the workflow as it has evolved over many years to facilitate editorial changes after the grading has been completed.

Generally it is simpler to edit and then grade. I never grade before the edit.
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Re: pre-grade THEN edit in Resolve?

PostSat Oct 20, 2018 2:17 pm

jasonparker wrote:
waltervolpatto wrote:
jasonparker wrote:

Really? Read that over and watched as many tutorials as I could find, and doesn't seem to help with editing pre-graded footage. But thanks!


with remote grade you will have each instances of the same clip showing the same color even if you reedit the clip in a different timeline.



The manual talks about connecting to a second machine's IP address to sync your remote grades to. Is that the technique you're suggesting or is there a different way to use remote grades?


Not remote "grading"

Remote "grades" as opposite of "local grades"
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Re: pre-grade THEN edit in Resolve?

PostSat Oct 20, 2018 4:40 pm

Thanks for the help
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Re: pre-grade THEN edit in Resolve?

PostSat Oct 20, 2018 5:20 pm

another option would be
- do a ruff first light in a single node with no masks/keys
- save a still + pull a lut
- apply the lut to the cam orig footage in the media pool
- start a new timeline and edit away
- when finishing, remove the lut, and apply the still

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