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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
210 Chapter 10 Secondaries
 Isolating areas for targeted corrections: This is the primary reason for the Secondaries
room’s existence. Using a variety of techniques, you can perform functions such as
isolating the highlights in an image to change the quality of light, target the color of
an overly bright sweater to desaturate it without affecting the rest of the image, or
select an actor’s face to create a post-production sunburn. Once you master the
ability to selectively adjust portions of the image, the possibilities are endless.
 Creating vignetting effects: Traditionally, vignettes used for creative purposes describe
a darkening around the edges of the image that used to be created with mattes or
lens filters. You can create any type of vignette you need using either preset or
custom shapes, to darken or otherwise flag areas of the image. Vignettes can be used
to focus viewer attention by highlighting a subject in the foreground or by shading
background features that you don’t want sticking out.
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