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Save adjustments to quick clipboard like DaVinci Resolve

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Problem:

I often find myself (as a digitech) adjusting large numbers of images (sometimes 20k+ a shoot day) as they come in tethered.  Lighting scenarios change on location as clouds roll through or the photographer changes their angle.  That change means I have to change my color adjustments quickly on the fly.  If I don't get them done when they come into capture, I have to go back and do it later.  Often the changes are predictable... one color adjustment for this angle; a different from this angle and they switch back and forth quickly.

Solution:

In Resolve, you can hot key your color correction from an image creating a "snapshot".  For instance, one angle you could hit option+1 and it would copy all the adjustments to a clipboard that you could recall by pressing command+1... and so on down the keyboard.

 

This is incredibly useful.  I know that when the photographer shoots straight down it is into the shade and I need to open up the shadows and warm up the image for those hundred or so frames before they go back up to a backlit face shot where I need to cool down the images, pull the highlights down a bit, pump the blacks and add a little dehaze, then, when they shoot a frontlet face I need to pull up the shadows and pull down the highlights, etc...  If I could have those three different adjustments, and more, copied to a clipboard I could easily recall based on what the lighting scenario is, it would save countless hours of going back later.

 

Thanks for listening!

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    @...

    There are several problems with making them into styles:

    1) They need to be temporary; I don't want to have hundreds of custom styles for each shoot.

    2) They need to be fast.  These would be basically styles, yes, but only needed for the current shooting scenario.  If there was a hot key to save a style to a clipboard (like the copy/apply button), but multiple clipboards essentially.  Option+1 saves a style (just for the current session) and Command+1 recalls that style.

    3) I think the current styles tab is kind of clunky, and definitely designed to be used when you have a break in shooting or are doing post work, not when capturing.

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