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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 9 Primary In 169
 If Limit Shadow Adjustments is turned off: Contrast adjustments with the shadows
slider are performed as a simple lift operation. The resulting correction uniformly
lightens or darkens the entire image, altering the shadows, midtones, and highlights
by the same amount. This can be seen most clearly when adjusting the black point of
a linear black-to-white gradient, which appears in the Waveform Monitor as a straight
diagonal slope. Notice how the entire slope of the gradient in the Waveform Monitor
moves up.
 If Limit Shadow Adjustments is turned on: The black point is raised, but the white
point remains at 100 percent. This means that when you make any adjustments with
the Shadow contrast slider, all midtones in the image are scaled between the new
black point and 100 percent. Notice how the top of the slope in the waveform
monitor stays in place while the black point changes.