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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
270 Chapter 13 Managing Corrections and Grades
To change the selected grade:
1 Move the playhead to the shot you want to change the grade of.
2 Do one of the following:
 Click the grade you want to switch to.
 Press Control-1 through 4.
 Control-click or right-click on a grade, and choose Select Grade X from the shortcut
menu, where X is the number of the grade you’re selecting.
The shot is updated to use the newly selected grade.
Resetting Grades in the Timeline
If necessary, you can reset any of a shot’s four grades.
To reset a grade in the Timeline:
1 Move the playhead to the shot you want to switch the grade of.
2 in the grade track of the Timeline, control-click or right-click the grade you want to
reset to and choose Reset Grade X from the shortcut menu (where X is the number of
the grade).
Resetting a grade clears all settings from the Primary In, Secondaries, Color FX, and
Primary Out rooms, bringing that shot to its original state. Pan & Scan settings in the
Geometry room are left intact.
Copying Corrections and Grades in the Timeline
You can copy individual corrections or entire grades from one shot to another in the
Timeline.
To copy a correction from one shot to another:
m Drag a single correction bar in the grade track of the Timeline to the shot you want to
copy it to.
The shot you’re dragging the correction onto becomes highlighted, and after you’ve
dropped it, the current grade for that shot appears with the same grade bar.










