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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 2 Color Correction Workflows 57
Image Sequence File Naming for Conforming Digital Intermediates
Here’s an example filename of the first image sequence file that corresponds to the EDL
event shown above:
my_file_name.0494794.dpx
The first portion of the filename for each scanned frame (the alpha characters) is
ignored, but the numeric extension listing that file’s frame number should equal the
(non-dropframe) timecode conversion of that value appearing in the EDL.
For example, a frame with timecode 05:51:18:28 would have a numeric extension of
632368. Numeric extensions should always be padded to seven digits; in this case, we
would add one preceding 0, like this:
my_file_name.0632368.dpx
Only the numeric extension and the .dpx or .cin are strictly required, since the initial
alpha characters of the filename are ignored by Color. For example, the above filename
could also be:
0632368.dpx
Alternately, you could utilize the unused first portion of the filename to keep track of
the reel number that frame file comes from:
reel_004.0632368.dpx