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title: A grade, and a way out
summary: Bake a LUT from a reference clip, and export a clip as editor files when somebody downstream needs them.
lede: Bake a LUT from a reference clip, and hand editors real files
outcome: design
tools: analyze_style, export_edit, job_wait
order: 9
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> Work out the look on GroundSlate clip hero-4f3e2d1c and write me a LUT for it in ~/Projects/Portugal/grade/, then export that clip for an editor: EDL, FCPXML and a marker list, one event per shot.

- Name a folder for the LUT that GroundSlate has been granted. Without a destination, nothing is written.
- Export works per clip: each clip becomes its own set of editor files, one event per shot. A reel is not exported as a timeline, so send its source clips one by one and the editor rebuilds the cut from those.
- The EDL opens in Resolve and Premiere, the FCPXML in Final Cut.