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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
Chapter 8 Video Scopes 159
In this way, darker colors lie at the bottom of the interior, while lighter colors lie at the
top. More saturated colors lie closer to the outer sides of the shape, while less saturated
colors fall closer to the center of the interior.
Y’C
B
C
R
The Y´C
B
C
R
color space is similar to the HSL color space, except that the outer boundary
of saturation is represented with a specifically shaped six-sided construct that shows
the general boundaries of color in broadcast video.
The outer boundary does not identify the broadcast-legal limits of video, but it does
illustrate the general range of color that’s available. For example, the following image
has illegal saturation and brightness.
If you turn on the Broadcast Safe settings, the distribution of color throughout the
Y´C
B
C
R
color space becomes constricted.