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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
84 Chapter 4 Importing and Managing Projects and Media
 Drag the shot directly into the Timeline.
 Click the Import button below that shot’s preview to edit the shot into the Timeline
at the position of the playhead.
Once shots have been placed into the Timeline, save your project.
Compatible Media Formats
Color is compatible with a wide variety of QuickTime files and image sequences.
Compatible QuickTime Codecs for Import
The list of codecs that are supported by Color is limited to high-quality codecs suitable
for media exchange and mastering. Codec support falls into three categories:
 QuickTime codecs that are supported by Color when importing projects and media.
 A subset of codecs that may be used for rendering your final output when Original
Format is chosen in the Export Codec pop-up menu of the Prjct Settings tab of the
Setup Room. Original Format is only available when you’ve used the “Send to Color”
command in Final Cut Pro, or when you’ve imported a Final Cut Pro file that’s been
exported as an XML file.
 By default, only four codecs are available in the Export Codec pop-up menu for
upconverting your source media to a higher-quality format. These include the Apple
ProRes 422 and Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) codecs, and the Apple Uncompressed 8-bit
4:2:2 and Apple Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2 codecs.
Note: If you’ve installed a video interface from AJA, you should see an additional
option—AJA Kona 10-bit RGB.
Supported for import
Supported as original
format
Supported as export
codec
Animation No No
Apple Intermediate Codec Yes No
Apple Pixlet Yes No
Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) Yes Yes
Apple ProRes 422 (SQ) Yes Yes
DVCPRO 50 - NTSC Yes No
DVCPRO 50 - PAL Yes No
DV - PAL Yes No
DV/DVCPRO - NTSC Yes No
DVCPRO - PAL Yes No
DVCPRO HD 1080i50 Yes No
DVCPRO HD 1080i60 Yes No
DVCPRO HD 1080p25 Yes No