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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 3 Using the Color Interface 63
 When you enter timecode in a field, you don’t need to enter all of the separator
characters (such as colons); they’re automatically added between each pair of digits.
 You can type a period to represent a pair of zeros when entering longer durations.
For example, type “3.” (3 and a period) to enter timecode 00:00:03:00. The period is
automatically interpreted by Color as 00.
 To enter 00:03:00:00, type “3..” (3 and two periods).
These periods insert pairs of zeros into both the seconds and frames position.
 Type 3... to enter 03:00:00:00.
 Use the plus (+) symbol to enter a series of single-digit values for each time position.
For example, type “1+5+8” to enter timecode 00:01:05:08.
Color Controls
Color controls are used in several rooms in Color to let you choose and modify colors
using the HSL model.
 Dragging within the main color wheel lets you simultaneously adjust the hue and
saturation of the selected color.
A crosshair within the color wheel shows the current color value that’s being selected.
The remaining controls depend on the type of color control being displayed.
 Dragging up and down within the multicolored Hue slider lets you adjust the hue.
 Dragging up within the single-colored Saturation slider increases the saturation of
the current hue, dragging down decreases its saturation.
 Dragging up within the single-colored Brightness slider increases the brightness of
the current color, dragging down decreases its brightness.
Customizing Color Controls
The angle at which colors appear on the color wheel of color controls can be
customized to match the interface of other color correction systems you may be used
to. In addition, the speed with which control surface joyballs adjust the corresponding
Color color controls can be adjusted. For more information, see “Control Surface
Settings” on page 103.