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Using the Copy Grade and Paste Grade Memory Banks
You can use the Copy Grade and Paste Grade commands to copy grades from one shot
and paste them into others. Five memory banks are available for copying and pasting
grades. This means that you can copy up to five different grades—with one in each
memory bank—and then paste different grades into different shots as necessary.
To copy a grade into one of the five memory banks
1 Move the playhead to the shot you want to copy a grade from.
2 Make the grade you want to copy the currently selected grade.
3 Choose Grade > Copy Grade > Mem-Bank 1 through 5 (or press Shift–Option–Control–1
through 5).
To paste a grade from one of the five memory banks
1 Move the playhead to the shot you want to copy a grade to.
2 Set the currently selected grade to the grade you want to paste into.
3 Choose Grade > Paste Grade > Mem-Bank 1 through 5 (or press Shift–Option–1 through
5).
The grade is applied to the shot at the position of the playhead.
Note: You cannot paste a grade from one of the five memory banks to multiple selected
shots at once.
You can also use the Copy and Paste memory banks feature via a supported control
surface. For more information, see Setting Up a Control Surface.
Setting a Beauty Grade in the Timeline
When you've set up a project with multiple grades for each shot, it may become difficult
to keep track of the grade you like best for any given shot. Marking a particular grade as
the beauty grade lets you keep track of the currently preferred grade for each shot.
While the beauty grade setting is primarily intended as a visual marker for your reference,
there is a command available from the Render Queue menu to add all beauty grades to
the Render Queue. (For more information, see How to Render Shots in Your Project.) This
means that you can use the beauty grade designation to control which shots are added
to the Render Queue. For example, you might use the beauty grade to keep track of
which clips you’ve changed during a revisions session, making it easy to render only the
changed shots at the end of the day.
The beauty grade does not have to be the currently selected grade, although if you begin
using the beauty grade designation, it’s best to keep it up-to-date for each shot in your
project to avoid confusion.
334 Chapter 13 Managing Corrections and Grades