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Group behavior
Hi all,
As far as I can tell, the way to apply a node or node tree to a defined group of clips is to select the clips in the timeline, make a new group, and then apply the node to any clip in that group.
Then to apply individual changes to each clip, you need to delete the group entirely – there seems to be no way to ‘turn on’ and ‘turn off’ the group behavior.
The information on “Group Versions” on Page 224 of the manual is quite brief and does not explain any alternative method.
BTW I wish Blackmagic would contract Alexis Van Hurkman to re-write the DaVinci manual from scratch – he did a great job with the Apple Color manual which is far superior to this one in my opinion.
thx
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Andrew,
when you create a timeline, all clip belong to “Default Group”.
If you create a new group, make some adjustments, and then you want to change only one node, then the way to do it is:Right click on that node, and click on
“Default Group” – “Load”.After that, you’ll be able to adjust it individually. No need to delete the group, voilá:)
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Hi Laco,
There must be something basic I am missing but I just can’t get it to work right then…..
Here is what i am doing:
1. Select all clips in the timeline.
2. Right click on a clip and choose “Add into a new group”. This creates a linked group of all my clips such that any node or grade applies to every clip.
4. Once my global grade is made I right click on a clip and choose “Default Group” / Load. Now the red outline around all the clips that seems to indicate the ‘group’ behaviour disappears.
5. As soon as I move to another clip, the red outline reappears and every clip seems linked by the group behavior again. The only ways I can get this linking behavior to go away are to either delete the group or remove all clips from the group. Either way the group is essentially gone.
It seems to me that once clips are connected via the “Group” command you need to destroy the group in order to then revert to unlinked behaviour. Is there some step I am missing?
Very frustrated….
AS
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By sheer coincidence, I wrote an article on my blog outlining how groups are best used in resolve. You can access it here:
https://vanhurkman.com/wordpress/?p=692
Hope that helps.
http://www.alexisvanhurkman.com | http://www.correctionforcolor.com
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Thanks Alexis…..
Good ideas there and explained thorougly…..
So as I understand I am correct that once you have created a group you must either remove clips from the group or delete the group to turn off the linking behavior….
AS
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That is my understanding, yes. Personally, I find I don’t use groups much, but then I don’t find myself grading that many programs with highly structured coverage or obviously repeating and identically lit headshots, etc. Others I’ve spoken with use groups a lot more. It’s a personal workflow thing.
http://www.alexisvanhurkman.com | http://www.correctionforcolor.com
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Hi there
I grade a lot of live concerts and find myself using groups a lot.
As the lights change from one song to the next, I group everything from where I am in the timeline till the end of the show, do some changes then delete the group and go on take by take until I find that another overall change should be done, so I regroup from where I am till the end and so on, making sure I have the same number of nodes.
This is the only kind of job where I use grouping, and in the end if theres a small change to be made to a bunch of takes, I just go to tracks and do it there.
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