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Table Of Contents
- Color User Manual
- Contents
- Color Documentation and Resources
- Color Correction Basics
- Color Correction Workflows
- Using the Color Interface
- Importing and Managing Projects and Media
- Creating and Opening Projects
- Saving Projects and Archives
- Moving Projects Between FinalCutPro and Color
- Reconforming Projects
- Importing EDLs
- Exporting EDLs
- Relinking QuickTime Media
- Importing Media Directly into The Timeline
- Compatible Media Formats
- Converting Cineon and DPX Image Sequences to QuickTime
- Importing Color Corrections
- Exporting JPEG Images
- Setup
- Monitoring
- Timeline Playback, Navigation, and Editing
- Video Scopes
- Primary In
- Secondaries
- Color FX
- Primary Out
- Managing Corrections and Grades
- The Difference Between Corrections and Grades
- Saving and Using Corrections and Grades
- Applying Saved Corrections and Grades to Shots
- Managing Grades in the Timeline
- Using the “Copy to” Buttons in the Primary Rooms
- Using the Copy Grade and Paste Grade Memory Banks
- Setting a Beauty Grade in the Timeline
- Disabling All Grades
- Managing Grades in the Shots Browser
- Using the Primary, Secondary, and Color FX Rooms Together to Manage Each Shot’s Corrections
- Keyframing
- Geometry
- Still Store
- Render Queue
- Calibrating Your Monitor
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Setting Up a Control Surface
- Index
10 Preface Color Documentation and Resources
Using the Color Documentation
The documentation that accompanies Color consists of a printed setup Guide and an
onscreen user manual.
Color Setup Guide
The Color Setup Guide provides excerpts from the onscreen user manual that are
designed to show you how Color fits into each of a variety of post-production
workflows, and help you to configure the project settings and user preferences in Color
to best suit your needs. If you’ve just installed Color and want to figure out how to set
up your system to work most efficiently, this is the place to start.
Color Onscreen User Manual
The Color User Manual, available from the Help menu, provides comprehensive
information about the application, and is written for users of all levels of experience.
 Editors and post-production professionals from other disciplines who are new to the
color correction process will find information on how to get started, with detailed
explanations of how all controls work, and why they function the way they do.
 Colorists coming to Color from other grading environments can skip ahead to find
detailed information about Color’s inner workings, and exhaustive parameter-by-
parameter explanations for every room of the Color interface.
Note: The onscreen user manual provides all of the information contained in the Color
Setup Guide, in an easily searchable form with full-color illustrations.
Tutorials
A collection of onscreen video tutorials on DVD-ROM is available to help you quickly
get started using Color. These tutorials walk you through every major area of the
interface, and are a good way to get an overview of where everything is prior to diving
into the user manual.
Color Websites
The following websites provide general information, updates, and support information
about Color, as well as the latest news, resources, and training materials.
For more information about Color, go to:
 http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/color
For more information on the Apple Pro Training Program, go to:
 http://www.apple.com/software/pro/training
To provide comments and feedback about Color, go to:
 http://www.apple.com/feedback/color.html