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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
122 Chapter 7 Timeline Playback, Navigation, and Editing
Basic Timeline UI Elements
The Timeline is divided into a number of tracks, containing the shots, grades, and
keyframes used by your program.
 Render Bar: The render bars above the Timeline Ruler show whether or not a shot is
unrendered (red), or has been rendered (green).
 Timeline Ruler: Shows a time scale for the Timeline. Dragging within the Timeline
ruler lets you move the playhead, scrubbing through the program.
 Playhead: Shows the position of the currently displayed frame in the Timeline. The
position of the playhead also determines the current shot that’s being worked on.
 Video Tracks and Shots: Each shot in the program is represented within one of the video
tracks directly underneath the Timeline Ruler. Color only allows you to create up to five
video tracks when you’re assembling a project from scratch, but will accommodate
however many superimposed video tracks there are in imported projects.
Note: Color does not currently support compositing operations. During playback,
superimposed clips take visual precedence over clips in lower tracks.
 Track Resize Handles: The tracks can be made taller or shorter by dragging their resize
handles up or down.
 Lock Icon: The lock icon shows whether or not a track has been locked.
 Grades Track: Color allows you to switch among up to four primary grades applied to
each shot. This lets you quickly preview different looks applied to the same shot,
without losing your previous work. Each grade is labeled Grade 1–4.