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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 4 Importing and Managing Projects and Media 73
To revert the project to the last saved state:
m Choose File > Revert (Command-R).
Saving and Opening Archives
An archive is a compressed duplicate of the project that’s stored within the project
bundle itself. For efficiency, the archive file lacks the thumbnail and Still Store image
files that the full version of the project has, saving only the state of the internal project
file, Timeline, shot settings, grades, corrections, keyframes, and pan and scan settings,
which are easily compressed and occupy little space.
Whenever you manually save your project, an archive is automatically created, named
with the date and time at which it was saved. If you want to save an archive of your
project at a particular state with a more easily identifiable name, you can use the Save
Archive As command.
To save an archive of the project with a specific name:
1 Do one of the following:
 Choose File > Save Archive As.
 Press Command-Option-S.
2 Type a name into the Archive Name field, and click Archive.
There is no limit to the number of archives you can save, so the archives list can grow
quite long. Archives are compressed using both .tar and gzip (a “tarball”) so they take
up little room. All archive files for a particular project are saved in the Archives
subdirectory inside of that project bundle.
Later, if anything should happen to your project file’s settings, or if you want to return
the project to a previously archived state, you can load one of the archive files.
To open an archive:
1 Choose File > Load Archive (Command-Option-O).
2 Select an archive to open from the Load Archive window, then click Load Archive.
Opening an archive overwrites the current state of the project with that of the archive.
Automatic Saving
The Color automatic saving mechanism, when turned on, saves the current project at
an interval set by the Auto Save Time (Minutes) parameter in the User Prefs tab of the
Setup room. When a project is automatically saved, no archive is created. This prevents
your archive list from being inundated with entries. By default, automatic saving is
turned on, with the interval set to 5 minutes.
For more information, see “Auto Save Settings” on page 109.