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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
274 Chapter 13 Managing Corrections and Grades
Setting a Beauty Grade in the Timeline
When you’ve set up a project with multiple grades for each shot, it may become
difficult to keep track of the grade you like best for any given shot. Marking a
particular grade as the beauty grade lets you keep track of the currently preferred
grade for each shot.
The beauty grade setting is only a visual marker, intended for reference purposes only.
The beauty grade does not have to be the currently selected grade.
To mark a grade as the beauty grade:
1 Move the playhead to the shot you want to set the beauty grade for.
2 Select the grade you want to set as the beauty grade.
3 Choose Grade > Set Beauty Grade (Control-B).
The currently selected grade turns red to show that it’s the beauty grade.
You can change the beauty grade at any time.
Disabling All Grades
It’s often valuable to disable every single correction you’ve applied to a shot, in order to
see a before and after view of the current state of your grade.
To temporarily disable all grades:
m Press Control-G.
All corrections made with the Primary In, Secondaries, Color FX, and Primary Out rooms
are disabled. However, all Pan & Scan settings in the Geometry room remain enabled.
Managing Grades in the Shots Browser
The Shots browser provides a different way to navigate and organize the shots in your
program, in a more nonlinear fashion then the Timeline allows. For example, you can
use the Find field in list view to search for groups of shots with common names.