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The Color Correction Tool
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Components of the Color Correction tool in its default configuration. Top, left to right: Correction Type button, group tabs,
and Color Correction Tool buttons. Bottom left: subdividing tabs. Bottom center: slider controls and Enable buttons.
Bottom right: Color Match control, Color Correction buckets, and Automatic Color Correction buttons.
(Symphony Option) Selecting Correction Types
The Color Correction tool has a Correction Type button that lets you select the type of color
correction you want to make. Selecting a correction type is one of the first and most important steps
you take when making any color correction in the Color Correction tool.
When you move the position indicator to a segment that has color correction, the Correction Type
button changes to indicate the type of correction that is applied to that segment. If you click the
Correction Type button, the correction type for the segment is highlighted in the Correction Type
menu.
To select a correction type:
t Click the Correction Type button, and select the type you want.
The options available in the Correction Type menu fall into two categories:
- Relationship color corrections: All but one of the options let you select a relationship so that
you can apply a correction to a group of related clips in one operation. For more information,
see “(Media Composer | Symphony Option) Understanding Relationship Color Corrections”
on page 584 and “(Media Composer | Symphony Option) Options for Relationship Color
Corrections” on page 585.
- Color Correction effect corrections: The last option lets you make a color correction using
the Color Correction effect. Some situations require a Color Correction effect rather than a
relationship color correction to make a correction. For more information, see “Using the
Color Correction Effect” on page 688.
(Media Composer | Symphony Option) Understanding Relationship Color
Corrections
Relationship color corrections define the scope of any correction you make. For example, if all the
material from one source tape in your project needs the same color correction because the camera
had poor white balance, you can make that correction to every segment in a sequence that you
captured from that source tape in one operation.
Relationship color corrections also distinguish between Source corrections and Program corrections.
You can make both a Source correction and a Program correction on a segment, which lets you make
two different correction passes on the same material. A common use of this feature is to make color
corrections for different purposes at different stages in your editing workflow. For example, you
might make a set of corrections specifically to correct problems with the color in your source
footage, and then later make a separate set of corrections to make final adjustments for artistic or
editorial purposes. The terms “Source” and “Program” reflect this kind of workflow.