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# Saving Grades

You can save grades to the Grade bin. When you save grades, all the settings are saved with a high-resolution PNG image and a thumbnail for identification. By saving your shot settings to the appropriate Grade bin, you can save your shot settings globally, to a predefined folder, or limit them to a user, scene, or project. You can also save them with your shots as Marry grade files.

If you save grades to a global, project, scene or user Grade bin, each selected grade is saved in a separate storage container, starting from the selected container and proceeding column by column and left to right.

If you save grades to a Marry Grade bin, each selected grade is saved in a separate storage container in the current container position (highlighted in red) in the Grade bin for the shot.

To save a grade to a Grade bin:

1. Select the Grade bin you want to use (for example, the Grade bin for the current project).
2. (Optional) Scroll to the area of the Grade bin you want to use. To scroll through a Grade bin, middle-click and drag right or left, or use the horizontal slider located immediately below the Grade bin. The red line in the slider indicates the current position.
3. Do one of the following:
   - To create a grade, select an unused storage container.
   - To update a grade with modified settings, select the storage container of the grade you want to update.

   (a) Used storage container(b) Unused storage container

   NoteWhen you add a grade to a container in the last column of the Grade bin, three new columns are automatically added to the right. You can add an unlimited number of grades.
4. Click Save.

   The settings from the current shot in the timeline are saved to the Grade Bin and a thumbnail of the current frame appears in the Grade bin.

   TipYou can use the thumbnail as a reference image while you work on another shot. See Viewing Reference Images.
5. (Optional) Enter a name or comment in the Note field and press Enter.

To save grading information from several shots to the Grade bin:

1. Do one of the following:
   - To choose grades for specific shots, use the Storyboard or the Multi-Layer Timeline to select the shots whose grading information you wish to save to the Grade bin. For more information about selecting elements in the Multi-Layer Timeline, refer to Selecting Elements.
   - To choose all shots in the timeline, leave all shots unselected.
2. In the Grade bin, select the storage container where you wish to save your grade.
3. Hold down the Shift key while pressing the Save button.
   WarningStorage containers with existing grading information will be overwritten. If you are saving to storage containers that already have grading information, Lustre prompts you to confirm you want to overwrite these grades.
4. If you are saving to storage containers that already have grading information, confirm or cancel the action when Lustre prompts you to confirm the action.

   The selected grades are saved to the Grade bin.