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MatchGrade node: Extracting grade information

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MatchGrade node: Extracting grade information

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- [Instructor] The MatchGrade node can match the grade between an ungraded and graded version of the same clip or match the grade between two different clips. The color grade can be done in the MatchGrade node itself or a color correction file that can be exported to be used elsewhere. Let's start by looking at the simplest case, extracting a baked-in grade, in this first case here, I have two versions of the same clip. This is the color corrected version, perhaps written out by the editor and over here is the original raw DPX Log File. And we have to try and match the color grade between the log image and the linear image. So, we'll select the node and add our MatchGrade. I'll type the tab key to get my search and type MAT and there is MatchGrade. It hooks up to the Source, the one I want to change and the Target, the one I want to match to. The first thing we do is tell it what task we want to perform. And by default it's going to match the graded Source, the case we're working on…

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