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Saving and Loading Grades for Single Shots

You can save the grade for a single shot rather than for the entire cut. This is useful when you want to apply a grade created for a shot in one cut to the same shot in another cut. The shots in the two cuts do not have to be in the same order and can have different edits applied to them. One situation where this could be useful is if you start your project working on a rough cut of a scene, and later are given the final EDL for the scene. You can save the grades created for particular shots on the rough cut and apply them to shots on the final cut.

You can save an individual grade for the current shot or for all the shots in the timeline at once. Similarly, you can load the grade back to the current shot or to all shots in the timeline.

When you save a grade using the Marry controls, the colour grading metadata is saved separately from the regular grade file; it is stored with the Scans Half Home shot footage or Scans Full Home shot footage in a Marry Grade file. When configuring a project, you can specify the format of the Marry Grade file.

• BinaryWhen you select Binary and save a Marry Grade file, Lustre saves all grading information (across all channels) to one marry.grade file for each shot. The marry.grade file is in a binary format.
• TextWhen you select Text and save a Marry Grade file, Lustre saves only primary grading information to a text file (.dsc). This data is saved as offset in code values for red, green, and blue. The purpose of this option is to be able to transfer primary grading information for individual shots between Lustre and other applications. In order to load this text file, its associated grade file must be loaded already. You can have only one .dsc file per grade. This file is named as follows:

  grd<grade number>.dsc

  (for example: grd11.dsc)

• UID AwareEvery shot has a Unique ID. When you use the Scene Detect function to divide a larger shot into smaller, scene-detected shots, each scene-detected shot is also assigned a Unique ID. When you select UID Aware in the Marry Grade group (see Project Settings) and save the grade using the Marry Grade function, Lustre saves all grading information:
  • for a single shot or scene-detected shot to a UID-based Marry Grade file, or
  • for all shots and scene-detected shots in the cut to their respective UID-based Marry Grade files

  The format of this file is binary and is named as follows:

  marry_grade.id<unique ID of the scene>

  (for example: marry_grade.id484D72320000B0)

  NoteIf you select Binary format instead of UID Aware, you will not be able to save grading information for individual scene-detected shots through the Marry Grade function. There is only one marry.grade file allowed per shot folder. Saving a grade twice on the same shot using Marry controls would result in only one version of the grade being saved. For more information about Marry Grade configuration settings, see Rendering Settings.
  NoteYou can find the UID for each shot in the cut file located in your scene's sacc_data folder.

To save the grade of one or all shots in a cut:

1. In the Main menu, click Setup, and then click Grade to display the Grade menu.
2. If you are saving the grade for one shot, navigate to that shot. See Navigating through Shots.
3. Using the Marry controls, do one of the following:
   • Click Save to save the grade for the current shot.
   • Click Save All to save individual grades for each shot in the cut.

   The grade is saved to the marry.grade file in the location defined during project configuration. See Rendering Settings. If the MarryType PrimText keyword was added to the configuration file, then the grade is saved to a .dsc file with the current grade.

To load the grade of one or all shots in a cut:

1. Load any cut containing one or more shots for which individual grades have been saved.
2. If you are loading the grade of one shot, navigate to the shot.
3. Using the Marry controls, do one of the following:
   • Click Load to load the grade of the current shot.
   • Click Load All to load the grades for all shots in the cut.

   The grades are loaded to the shots. If the cut contains shots for which no individual grades were saved, those shots are unchanged.