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The Color Correction Tool
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The Color Correction tool uses color coding on both the Correction Type button and the active Color
Correction tabs to indicate the type of correction you are applying or the type of correction that
currently exists for a segment:
• Green indicates Source corrections.
• Blue indicates Program corrections.
• Gray indicates a Color Correction effect correction.
Relationship color corrections appear in the Timeline with green dots, indicating that they play in real
time, subject to the playback capabilities and constraints of your system. Like any other effect, you
might need to render a relationship color correction to ensure real-time, full-quality playback in some
circumstances. For more information, see “Real-Time Playback of Video Effects” on page 122.
Your Avid editing application processes relationship color corrections before all other effects, with
the exception of Timewarp effects. (Your Avid editing application processes Timewarp effects first to
ensure that they do not become unrendered when you apply a color correction.) This processing order
can determine how you choose to apply color corrections in combination with other effects, and is
one of the factors that might require you to use a Color Correction effect rather than a relationship
color correction. For more information, see “Using the Color Correction Effect” on page 688.
You can also apply a Source Segment or a Program Segment correction to the material between
marked IN and OUT points. For more information, see “Customizing Color Correction Mode
Settings” on page 594.
You can apply a relationship correcton and a color correction effect on the same segment. This results
in two distinct corrections. Your Avid editing application processes the relationship correction first,
and its result is the input to the color correction effect. This approach differs from applying one
correction on the Source side and another on the Program side, when your Avid editing application
makes a single adjustment using the merged values from the Source and Program sides.
(Media Composer | Symphony Option) Options for Relationship Color
Corrections
Relationship Description
Src (Source) Tape Corrects the current segment and all other segments in the sequence
that use material from the same source tape.
Src (Source) Clip Name Corrects the current segment and all other segments in the sequence
that have the same clip name. (This relationship ignores clip name
extensions — .new and any subsequent characters — created during
decomposing and batch capturing.) For more information on using this
option, see “(Media Composer | Symphony Option) Using the Source
Clip Name Relationship” on page 586.
Master Clip Corrects the current segment and all other segments in the sequence
that use material from the same master clip.
Sub Clip Corrects the current segment and all other segments in the sequence
that use material from the same subclip.
Src (Source) Segment Corrects only the current segment (the segment the position indicator is
on in the Timeline).