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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
82 Chapter 4 Importing and Managing Projects and Media
5 When you’ve finished choosing all the necessary settings, click Import.
A new project is created, and the EDL is converted into a sequence of shots in the
Timeline. These shots should match the Timelines of the original project.
Exporting EDLs
You can export EDLs out of Color, which can be a good way of moving projects back to
other editorial applications. When exporting an EDL, it’s up to the application with
which you’ll be importing the EDL to successfully relink to the media that’s rendered
out of Color.
Note: To help facilitate media relinking, the media path is written to the comment
column in the exported EDL, although not all editing applications support this
convention.
To export an EDL:
1 Chose File > Export > EDL.
2 When the Export EDL dialog appears, click Browse.
3 Enter a name for the EDL you’re exporting in the File field of the Export EDL File dialog,
choose a location for the file, and click Save.
4 If you didn’t change any of the shot names when you exported the final rendered
media for this project, turn on “Use original media name.”
5 Click OK.
A new EDL file is created, and the clips within are linked to the media directory you
specified.
Relinking QuickTime Media
If necessary, you can manually relink media to a Color project. When you use the relink
command, Color matches each shot in the Timeline with its corresponding media file
using the following criteria:
 Starting timecode
 Filename
If neither of these criteria matches, you’re given the following warning: