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The grade ID column in the Render Queue shows you what grades you’ve selected to
render for each shot.
Managing Rendered Shots in the Timeline
Once you’ve rendered shots in the Timeline, they stay rendered unless you make a change
to the grade. When you change the grade of a shot that’s already been rendered, its
render bar will once again turn red, showing that its current state is unrendered. Rendering
the new state of the grade for that shot overwrites the previous render file.
If you try to add a shot that’s currently shown as having been rendered to the Render
Queue (for example, you’ve inadvertently included one or more shots that have already
been rendered in a selection of shots you want to render), a dialog warns you which shots
will be rerendered, with the option to leave them out of the queue.
Clicking Yes forces Color to add them to the Render Queue, where they will be rendered
a second time.
Examining the Color Render Log
Every time you render shots in a project, information about what was rendered, when it
was rendered, and how long it took to render is written to a color.log file. This information
can be used to benchmark your system, troubleshoot rendering issues, and keep a record
of how long different projects take to render. Every time you render anything in any Color
project, information about that rendering session is appended to this one log.
Whenever you click Start Render, the date and time the render was started and number
of clips queued up for rendering is written into the log, followed by information and
statistics about each clip that is rendered. This information includes:
• Path the rendered file was written to
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