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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
174 Chapter 9 Primary In
Overly bright highlights are often the case with images shot on video, where super-
white levels above the broadcast-legal limit of 100 percent frequently appear in the
source media (as seen in the previous example). If left uncorrected, highlights above
100 percent will be clipped by the Broadcast Safe settings when they’re enabled,
resulting in a loss of highlight detail when all pixels above 100 percent are set to be 100
percent.
By lowering the white point yourself, you can bring clipped detail back into the image.
Note: Values that are clipped or limited by Color are preserved internally, and may be
retrieved in subsequent adjustments. This is different from overexposed values in
source media, which if clipped at the time of recording are lost forever.