Shot matching

Shot matching is the craft of making separate shots — often from different cameras, lenses, or times of day — read as one continuous scene. You pick a balanced anchor shot, grab it as a reference still, and drive every other shot’s channels until they replicate the anchor’s — verified on the RGB parade and vectorscope rather than by eye. It builds directly on balancing: you balance the hero shot first, then match the rest to it. Resolve also offers an automated “shot match to this clip” command, but a manual parade match is more reliable and more controllable.

First used in: 2.3 · Shot matching