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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 195
An Example of the Luma Curve in Use
The following example illustrates how to make very specific changes to the contrast of
an image using the Luma curve. Looking at the waveform in the following image, you
can see that the sky is significantly brighter then the rest of the image. In order to bring
viewer attention more immediately to the subject sitting at the desk, you would want
to darken the sky outside the window, without affecting the brightness of the rest of
the image.
1 Before making any actual adjustments, pin down the midtones and shadows of the
image by adding a control point to the curve without moving it either up or down.
Adding control points to a portion of a curve that you don’t want to adjust, and leaving
them centered, is a great way to minimize the effect of other adjustments you’re
making to specific areas of an image. When you add additional control points to adjust
the curve, the unedited control points you placed will help to limit the correction.