Help

Everything about setting up streams, running sessions and watching. Short answers are in the FAQ.

Start

• Your first session in ten minutesYour first remote grading session in ten minutes: create an account, connect your encoder, open a room, test the stream and invite your client.

Streaming

• Choose how to streamPick the right way to get your picture to Gradetonic, based on the equipment you already have, from a hardware encoder to OBS on your grading computer.
• Resolve output to your encoderHow to send the picture from DaVinci Resolve to an encoder for a live Gradetonic session, through a Blackmagic DeckLink or UltraStudio output or a second display.
• From your editing softwareHow to get the output of Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro or Autodesk Flame to Gradetonic, through a video output device or through OBS.
• Stream with OBSSet up OBS Studio for a low-latency color grading or edit session on Gradetonic. Import the profile, check the settings, start streaming.
• Hardware encodersSettings for streaming to Gradetonic from a hardware encoder such as a Blackmagic Web Presenter, AJA HELO, Magewell Ultra Encode or Teradek.

Sessions

• Rooms, invitations and viewersCreate rooms, invite clients with a password or a personal link, see who is watching, remove viewers and pause a session in Gradetonic.
• A review session, start to finishA checklist for a remote color grading or edit review with Gradetonic, before, during and after the session.
• Watching a sessionFor viewers: how to open a Gradetonic room, which browsers and devices work, and how to set up your display for the best picture.
• Watch on an SDI reference monitorPlay a Gradetonic room on a grading or reference monitor over SDI: copy the RTMP URL from the room, open it in OBS Studio and send it out through a Blackmagic DeckLink.
• Security best practicesKeep unreleased work private in Gradetonic: passwords, personal invitation links, viewer names, removing viewers, stopping a session and rotating your stream key.

Account

• Your own brandingShow your clients your studio, not ours: your logo, colors, pause screen and your own domain on every Gradetonic room.
• Use your own domainRun your Gradetonic viewing room on your own address, like remote.yourstudio.com, with a CNAME record. Step by step, including Cloudflare.
• Passes, subscriptions and invoicesHow Gradetonic billing works: when a pass starts, what counts as a minute, room subscriptions, fair use, invoices and VAT.

Reference

• How it worksThe path from your grading suite to your client's screen, and what it means for picture quality, delay and security.
• TroubleshootingFix common problems with Gradetonic streams: no signal on the encoder page, stuttering for viewers, viewers who can't connect, and color differences.
• Terms explainedPlain explanations of the terms used in Gradetonic and remote review, from bitrate and latency to Rec. 709, 4:2:0 and NDI.