Flagging Shots			Copying Parameters with the Selector
Chapter 4, Basics

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Grouping Shots

Applying Changes to Grouped Shots

Soloing Shots

You can group shots together. This is useful, for example, when you have a series of exterior shots and a series of interior shots in the Storyboard. You can define a group for the exterior shots and another group for the interior shots. When you want to adjust parameters for the exterior shots, you select that group. Then, when you want to work on the interior shots, you select the Interior Shots group. Each time you select a different group, the selected shots in the Storyboard change.

In addition to being able to group shots, you can also define what parameters are relevant for the group. In the Exterior Shots group example, you may want to group Primary colour and Effects, but not Secondary colour. This allows you to perform primary colour grading on all shots in the group, but secondary colour grading is applied only to the current shot.

If, at any point, you need to apply changes to a parameter defined as part of a group, but you want the changes to apply to the current shot only, use Solo. This function temporarily isolates the shot for modification--your changes are not applied to other shots in the group.

Grouping Shots

Use the Group tool to select shots to group and the parameters to include with the grouping. Any change made to one shot in the group propagates to the other shots in the group, provided that the changes are to parameters that have been included in the group.

Changes made to grouped shots are relative, not absolute. For example, if a non-grouped shot's printer light values are 25, 25, 25 and a new setup is loaded in which the printer light values are 37, 28, 10, then the shot's printer light values will be changed to 37, 28, 10. On the other hand, if the shot were part of a group, the new printer light values would be added, resulting in printer light values of 62, 53, 35. When in group mode, values are added to all the grouped shots, even those that have already been colour corrected.

1. Click Group.

   

   Note: You can access the Group button from any menu except the Animation menu.

2. Click New.

   A new group called gang1 is created.

3. Enable Define.

   This allows you to add shots to the shot group and select the parameters that are applied to the grouping.

   

4. Right-click shots in the Storyboard to add them to the group.

   Grouped shots are highlighted with a yellow border.

5. Select the channels in the list for the parameters that you want to apply to the group:

   • To select all channels in a directory, select the directory.

   • To select a subset of the channels in a directory, click the arrow to the left of the directory to expand the directory, and then select the channels.

   • To deselect a directory or a channel, click it.

   

   Deselected directory

   Selected expanded directory

   Selected channel

   
   

6. When you have finished setting up the group, disable Define.

7. You can name the group by middle-clicking the group and entering a new name.

   Note: Spaces are not permitted in naming conventions. It is recommended that underscores be used instead of spaces when working on either Linux or Windows.

8. You can delete a group by selecting it and pressing Ctrl+Backspace.

9. You can activate split view with grouped shots by right-clicking the group.

Applying Changes to Grouped Shots

After you group shots, changes made to one shot are applied to all other shots in the group.

1. Click Group.

2. Select the group to which you want to make changes.

   

   The grouped shots are selected in the Storyboard.

3. Enable the Solo/Gang button.

   

   The Solo button turns to a Gang button and the grouped shots are outlined in yellow.

4. Select one of the grouped shots and make modifications to it.

   Note: You can also apply a grade to one of the shots.

   The changes are applied to all the other grouped shots.

Soloing Shots

Use Solo to temporarily disable grouping for a shot.

1. Click Group.

2. Select the group with the shot you want to solo.

   

3. In the Storyboard, select the shot to which you want to make changes.

4. Disable the Solo/Gang button.

   

   The Gang button turns to a Solo button.

5. Make the changes to the shot.

   The changes affect the soloed shot only.

6. Enable the Solo/Gang button to turn off solo.

   Any changes made to the shot are now applied to all grouped shots.