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Table Of Contents
- Color User Manual
- Contents
- Welcome to Color
- Color Correction Basics
- Color Correction Workflows
- An Overview of the Color Workflow
- Limitations in Color
- Video Finishing Workflows Using Final Cut Pro
- Importing Projects from Other Video Editing Applications
- Digital Cinema Workflows Using Apple ProRes 4444
- Finishing Projects Using RED Media
- Digital Intermediate Workflows Using DPX/Cineon Media
- Using EDLs, Timecode, and Frame Numbers to Conform Projects
- Using the Color Interface
- Importing and Managing Projects and Media
- Creating and Opening Projects
- Saving Projects
- Saving and Opening Archives
- Moving Projects from Final Cut Pro to Color
- Before You Export Your Final Cut Pro Project
- Move Clips That Aren’t Being Composited to Track V1 in the Timeline
- Remove Unnecessary Video Filters
- Organize All Color Corrector 3-Way Filters
- Divide Long Projects into Reels
- Export Self-Contained QuickTime Files for Effects Clips You Need to Color Correct
- Use Uncompressed or Lightly Compressed Still Image Formats
- Make Sure All Freeze Frame Effects Are on Track V1
- Make Sure All Clips Have the Same Frame Rate
- Media Manage Your Project, If Necessary
- Recapture Offline Media at Online Quality, If Necessary
- Check All Transitions and Effects If You Plan to Render 2K or 4K Image Sequences for Film Out
- Using the Send To Color Command in Final Cut Pro
- Importing an XML File into Color
- Before You Export Your Final Cut Pro Project
- Importing EDLs
- EDL Import Settings
- Relinking Media
- Importing Media Directly into the Timeline
- Compatible Media Formats
- Moving Projects from Color to Final Cut Pro
- Exporting EDLs
- Reconforming Projects
- Converting Cineon and DPX Image Sequences to QuickTime
- Importing Color Corrections
- Exporting JPEG Images
- Configuring the Setup Room
- The File Browser
- Using the Shots Browser
- The Grades Bin
- The Project Settings Tab
- The Messages Tab
- The User Preferences Tab
- Monitoring Your Project
- Timeline Playback, Navigation, and Editing
- Basic Timeline Elements
- Customizing the Timeline Interface
- Working with Tracks
- Selecting the Current Shot
- Timeline Playback
- Zooming In and Out of the Timeline
- Timeline Navigation
- Selecting Shots in the Timeline
- Working with Grades in the Timeline
- The Settings 1 Tab
- The Settings 2 Tab
- Editing Controls and Procedures
- Analyzing Signals Using the Video Scopes
- The Primary In Room
- The Secondaries Room
- What Is the Secondaries Room Used For?
- Where to Start in the Secondaries Room?
- The Enabled Button in the Secondaries Room
- Choosing a Region to Correct Using the HSL Qualifiers
- Controls in the Previews Tab
- Isolating a Region Using the Vignette Controls
- Adjusting the Inside and Outside of a Secondary Operation
- The Secondary Curves Explained
- Reset Controls in the Secondaries Room
- The Color FX Room
- The Primary Out Room
- Managing Corrections and Grades
- The Difference Between Corrections and Grades
- Saving and Using Corrections and Grades
- 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
- Managing a Shot’s Corrections Using Multiple Rooms
- Keyframing
- The Geometry Room
- The Still Store
- The Render Queue
- Appendix A: Calibrating Your Monitor
- Appendix B: Keyboard Shortcuts in Color
- Appendix C: Using Multi-Touch Controls in Color
- Appendix D: Setting Up a Control Surface
Note: If you have a compatible control surface, you can also use its controls to customize
the vignette. See Setting Up a Control Surface for more information.
• Vignette button: This button turns the vignette on or off for that tab.
• Use Tracker pop-up menu: If you’ve analyzed one or more motion trackers in the current
project, you can choose which tracker to use to automatically animate the position of
the vignette using this pop-up menu. To disassociate a vignette from the tracker’s
influence, choose None.
Note: When Use Tracker is assigned to a tracker in your project, the position of the
vignette (the center handle) is automatically moved to match the position of the
keyframes along that tracker’s motion path. This immediately transforms your vignette,
and you may have to make additional position adjustments to move the vignette into
the correct position. This is especially true if the feature you’re vignetting is not the
feature you tracked.
• Shape pop-up menu: This pop-up menu lets you choose a shape to use for the vignette.
• Square: A user-customizable rectangle. You can use the onscreen controls in the
Previews tab or the other vignette parameters to modify its position and shape. For
more information, see Using the Onscreen Controls to Adjust Vignette Shapes.
• Circle: A user-customizable oval. You can either use the onscreen controls in the
Previews tab, or the other vignette parameters to modify its position and shape.
• User Shape: Choosing User Shape from the Shape pop-up menu automatically moves
you to the Shapes tab of the Geometry room, where you can click to add points to
draw a custom shape to use for the vignette. When you finish, click the Attach button,
and then go back to the Secondaries room to make further adjustments. When you
use a User Shape as the vignette, the rest of the vignette parameters become
unavailable; you can modify and animate that shape only from the Shapes tab of the
Geometry room. For more information, see The Shapes Tab.
Parameters That Adjust Square or Circle Vignettes
The following parameters are only available when you use the Square or Circle options
in the Shape pop-up menu.
• Angle: Rotates the current shape.
• X Center: Adjusts the horizontal position of the shape.
• Y Center: Adjusts the vertical position of the shape.
• Softness: Blurs the edges of the shape.
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