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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
62 Chapter 3 Using the Color Interface
To modify the value of a numeric or percentage-based text field with a virtual slider:
1 Move the pointer to the field you want to adjust.
2 Middle-click and drag to the left to decrease its value, or to the right to increase its value.
3 Release the mouse button when you’re finished.
To modify the value of a numeric or percentage-based text field with a scroll wheel:
1 Move the pointer to the field you want to adjust.
2 Without clicking in the field, roll the scroll wheel or ball up to increase that field’s value,
or down to decrease that field’s value.
To adjust a field using a shortcut menu:
m Control-click or right-click any field, and choose one of the following options from the
shortcut menu:
 Reset: Resets the field to its default setting.
 Min: Chooses the minimum value available to that field.
 Max: Chooses the maximum value available to that field.
 Set as Default: Sets that parameter to the default value.
Timecode Fields
Timecode fields display timing information, such as media In and Out points, and the
position of the playhead. Time is represented in Color in one of two ways:
 Within fields, most time values are represented with standard SMPTE timecode.
SMPTE timecode is represented by four colon-delimited pairs of digits: hh:mm:ss:ff,
where hh is hours, mm is minutes, ss is seconds, and ff is frames.
 Time values in the Timeline Ruler may be displayed as non-drop frame timecode,
drop frame timecode, or frames.
Note: Drop-frame timecode appears with a semicolon between the seconds and
frames positions.
Navigating with Timecode
Here are some pointers for entering values into the hours, minutes, seconds, and
frames positions of timecode fields:
 Time values are entered from left to right (similar to entering a duration into a
microwave); however, the last value you type is assumed to be the last digit of the
frames position.
 Press Return whenever you’ve finished typing a timecode value to confirm the new
value you entered.
 If you enter a partial number, the rightmost pair of numbers is interpreted as frames
and each successive pair of numbers to the left populates the remaining seconds,
minutes, and hours positions. Omitted numbers default to 00.
For example, if you enter 1419, Final Cut Pro interprets it as 00:00:14:19.