Right-click the new Still and choose “Add correction” in the context menu.

Select a one or multiple clips in the timeline that you want the CDL apply to.

A new “Still” with the name of the CDL file will appear in the “Stills” panel.

Select “CDL files (*.cdl)” at the bottom of the Open Dialog and navigate to the CDL files just saved in Livegrade.

In the “Stills” panel right-click and choose “Import”.

Hint: To simplify matching of the CDL files with the clips you can use an automatic name scheme when exporting.

You can open this file with a text editor and see the typical ASC-CDL XML syntax.

Choose “File” -> “Save current Grade as…” or “Save selected Grade as…” and save the.

Do so by switching the grading mode above the color controls or apply a grade from the grade library of the type “CDL Grade”

Make sure that your are in “CDL Grade” mode in Livegrade.To transfer ASC-CDL files to Resolve or Resolve Light follow these steps: These CDL files can be used in various dailies and post-production tools. Livegrade’s CDL-Grade mode lets you export ASC-CDL files of current color settings in Livegrade. This article shows how color information from Livegrade can be used to save extra grading time in Resolve by using the looks created in Livegrade. Blackmagic Design’s “DaVinci Resolve” ( ) is a powerful and widely used software to create dailies on or near set.

Using look information from set for the creation of dailies saves time and communication efforts.

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