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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
102 Chapter 5 Setup
Important: The broadcast-safe legalization employed by Color can only do so much to
maintain detail in the image while preventing illegal levels. As in any color correction
system, pushing adjustments past a certaIn point will result in uniformly crushed
blacks, blown-out whites, and flat areas of color. It should be said, however, that this is
often used for stylistic effect.
Rendering Settings
This setting affects how media is rendered out of Color.
 Handles: This field lets you specify a duration of extra media to be added to the head
and tail of each media file that’s rendered out of Color. When a project is sent back to
Final Cut Pro, handles allow editors to make small adjustments without running out
of corrected media. The default value is 00:00:01:00.
Messages Tab
The Messages tab contains a running list of all the warnings and error messages that
are generated by Color while it operates. Messages highlighted in yellow are warnings.
Messages highlighted in red signify that an error has occurred (for example, “Directory
not writable trying to re-save a project.”). There are no controls in the Messages tab.
User Preferences Tab
The User Preferences tab contains settings that affect the operation of Color with any
project you open. It includes options for customizing control surface sensitivity,
Timeline display, playback behavior, video output, and the bit depth that’s used for
both display and rendering.
The state of each of these settings is automatically saved whenever they’re changed. If
necessary, you can restore the settings to their original defaults.
To reset the default user preferences:
m Click Revert, at the bottom of the User Preferences tab.
About Broadcast Safe
When color correcting any program destined for broadcast, it’s important to obtain
the specific quality control (QC) guidelines from the broadcaster. There are varying
standards for the maximum and minimum allowed IRE, chroma, and composite
amplitude, and some broadcasters are more conservative then others.
The broadcast safe parameters can be set to match the required QC guidelines. When
enabled, they guarantee that your program will not exceed these standards while you
monitor your program and when you render the finally corrected media.