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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
78 Chapter 4 Importing and Managing Projects and Media
Sending Your Project Back to Final Cut Pro
If you’re doing a Final Cut Pro to Color round-trip, you’ll need to render the color-
corrected media out of Color (covered in Chapter 17, “Render Queue,” on page 321), and
then export the Color project back to Final Cut Pro.
Important: Projects using Cineon or DPX image sequences can’t be sent back to
Final Cut Pro.
To use the “Send to Final Cut Pro” command in Color:
1 Go through the Timeline and choose which grade you want to use for each of the clips
in your project.
Since each shot in your program may have up to four separately rendered versions of
media in the render directory, the rendered media that each shot is linked to in the
exported XML project file is determined by its currently selected grade.
2 Choose File > Send To > Final Cut Pro.
Note: If you haven’t rendered every shot in Color at this point, you’ll be warned. It’s a
good idea to click No to cancel the operation and render all of your shots prior to
sending the project back to Final Cut Pro.
A new sequence is automatically added to the original Final Cut Pro project from which
the program came. However, if the Final Cut Pro project the program was originally
sent from is unavailable, has been renamed, or has been moved to another location,
then a new Final Cut Pro project will be created to contain the new sequence. Either
way, every clip in the new sequence is automatically linked to the color-corrected
media you rendered out of Color.
Exporting XML for Final Cut Pro Import
If you’re exporting a project for someone at another facility, you’ll need to export an
XML version of your Color project.
To export an XML file back to Final Cut Pro for final output:
1 Go through the Timeline and choose which grade you want to use for each of the clips
in your project.
Since each shot in your program may have up to four separately rendered versions of
media in the render directory, the rendered media that each shot is linked to in the
exported XML project file is determined by its currently selected grade.
2 Chose File > Export > XML.
3 When the Export XML Options dialog appears, click Browse.
a Enter a name for the XML file you’re exporting in the File field of the Export XML File
dialog.
b Choose a location for the file, then click Save.