1.0
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
184 Chapter 9 Primary In
To prevent obvious banding or other artifacts, adjustments to the three tonal zones
overlap broadly, with each color balance control’s influence over the image diminishing
gradually at the edges of each zone. This overlap is shown in the following graph.
The ways in which these zones overlap are based on the OpenCDL standard, and their
behavior is described below.
Important: If you’re used to the way the Color Corrector 3-way filter works in
Final Cut Pro, you’ll want to take some time to get used to the controls of the Primary
In room, as they respond somewhat differently. Also unlike adjustments using the Color
Corrector 3-way filter in Final Cut Pro, adjustments made using the color balance
control affect the luma of the image, altering its contrast ratio.
Shadows Color Adjustments
The behavior of the Shadows color balance control depends on whether or not the
Limit Shadow Adjustments preference is turned on (for more information, see “User
Interface Settings” on page 104).
Shadow control influence
Midtone influence
Highlight control influence