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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
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5 Setup
Before you start working on your project, take a moment to
configure your Color working environment and project
settings in the Setup room.
The Setup room serves many purposes. It’s where you import media files, sort and
manage saved grades, organize and search through the shots used in your program,
choose your project’s render and broadcast safe settings, and adjust user preferences.
This chapter covers the following:
 The File Browser (p. 91)
 The Shots Browser (p. 92)
 Grades Bin (p. 97)
 Project Settings Tab (p. 98)
 Messages Tab (p. 102)
 User Preferences Tab (p. 102)
The File Browser
The file browser, occupying the left half of the Setup room, lets you directly navigate
the directory structure of your hard drive. It’s like having a miniature Finder right there
in the Setup room. It’s important to bear in mind that the file browser is not a bin. The
files displayed within the file browser are not associated with your Color project in any
way unless you drag them into the Timeline manually, or relink the shots of an
imported project to their associated media files on disk using the Relink Media or
Reconnect Media commands.