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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
356 Index
March 26, 2007
E
Edge Detector node 252
Editing
B-Splines 191
control points 191
limitations 37
Editing controls and procedures 133
Editing shortcuts 335
Edits
creating 138
merging 138
EDL files 23
EDL formats 80
EDLs
exporting 82
importing 47, 80
import settings 81
parsing 56
Effects
keyframing 285
saving favorites in COlor FX bin 248
Enable clipping 101
Error messages 102
Evaluation monitor 112
Exporting
codec tips 87
EDLs 82
JPEG files 89
projects 23
self-contained QuickTime files 75
which codecs to use 100
XML files 42
XML files for Final Cut Pro 78
Exposure node 252
External video monitoring 113
Eyedropper
expanding a selection with 215
pulling keys with 213
sampling a range of values 215
F
Feathering shape edges 304
File browser 64, 91
collapsing 64
hiding 65
uncollapsing 65
File controls 68
Film
and chroma subsampling 26
color timing 19
Film Grain node 252
Film Look node 253
Filters
limitations 38
Final Cut Pro
exporting tips 75
Send to Color command 76
Final Cut Pro generators
limitations 38
Final Cut Pro Media Manager 41
Find field 93
FLEx files 54
Floor IRE 100
Folders
creating in a bin 267
using to organize corrections and grades 267
Formats
compatible image types 87
of compatible QuickTime 84
pixels 108
Formats compatible with Color 23
Framerate
maintaining 128
Frame rates
projects and EDLs 81
Frames
moving to first or last 129
relinking to an EDL 56
Freeze Frame clips
limitations 39
Freeze Frames
exporting as self-contained QuickTime files 75
G
Gain node 253
Gamma 31
Gamma node 253
Gamut
defined 116
Garbage matte 228
Gathering rendered media 328
Gather Rendered Media command 53
Generators (Motion)
exporting as self-contained QuickTime files 75
Geometry 293–313
importing and exporting settings 294
shortcuts 336
Geometry room 37
Goto field 93
Grades
adding to shots 131
applying to shots 268
changing on a shot 270
choosing in the Shots browser 276
copying and pasting 273
copying in the Timeline 270
defined 264
deleting 266
disabling 274










