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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
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1 Color Correction Basics
To better learn how Color works, it’s important to understand
the overall color correction process and how images work
their way through post-production in SD, HD, and film
workflows.
If you’re new to color correction, the first part of this chapter provides a background in
color correction workflows to help you better understand why Color works the way it
does. The second part goes on to explain important color and imaging concepts that
are important to the operation of the Color interface.
This chapter covers the following:
 What Is Color Correction? (p. 13)
 When Does Color Correction Happen? (p. 16)
 Color Correction in Color (p. 22)
 Image Encoding Standards (p. 24)
 Basic Color and Imaging Concepts (p. 27)
What Is Color Correction?
In any post-production workflow, color correction is generally one of the last steps
taken to finish an edited program. Color has been created to give you precise control
over the look of every shot in your project by providing flexible tools and an efficient
workspace with which to manipulate the contrast, color, and geometry of each shot in
your program.
The Goals of Color Correction?
When color correcting a given program, you’ll be called upon to perform many, if not
all, of the tasks described in this section. Color gives you an extremely deep feature set
with which to accomplish all this and more. While the deciding factor in determining
how far you go in any color correction session is usually the amount of time you have
in which to work, the dedicated color correction interface in Color allows you to work
quickly and efficiently.