User Manual

Conforming Sequences with Color Correction
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In an Avid editing application that works with Media Composer or Avid Xpress Pro, if you open
a Symphony sequence, you see the following behavior with color corrections:
• All color corrections (whether relationship or Color Correction effect) that use color
correction controls available in Media Composer or Avid Xpress Pro conform as Color
Correction effects.
• Color correction adjustments that are unique to Symphony, for example adjustments on the
Channels, Levels, or Secondary tabs, do not conform in Media Composer or
Avid Xpress Pro. A color correction that uses these adjustments appears in the Timeline (and
if it also contains HSL or Curves adjustments they are available), but you cannot view or
further adjust the adjustments that are unique to Symphony.
• When segments contain both a Source and a Program relationship color correction, only one
of those corrections (the one applied first in time) appears as a color correction effect.
Transferring Color Corrections with Color Correction Templates
In many situations where a color correction does not conform between one Avid editing
application and another in the way that you want, all of the color correction adjustment values
that you need are still intact, so you can work around the problem by using color correction
templates to transfer the color correction adjustment values to a new type of correction. The
following procedure provides an example of one typical transfer.
To convert a Color Correction effect in a sequence originally created in an Avid Media
Composer product to a relationship color correction:
1. In Color Correction mode, move the position indicator to the Color Correction effect whose
adjustment values you want to transfer, and ensure that you are monitoring the track in the
Timeline that contains the effect.
2. Drag the Color Correction template icon from the Color Correction tool to a bin.
Your Avid editing application saves a color correction template in the bin. If you want, you
can rename the template to clarify its origin.
3. Click the Remove Effect button to remove the original Color Correction effect from the
segment.
4. (Option) If you intend to use a relationship color correction that will apply to multiple
segments (taking the place of multiple individual Color Correction effects), you might need
to move to each of the other segments and remove the existing Color Correction effects from
each.
5. In the Correction Type menu, select the relationship color correction you want to use.
6. Do one of the following: