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Apple Color 1.5 User Manual (434 pages)

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Table of contents

User Manual

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Contents

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4 Contents

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5Contents

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6 Contents

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7Contents

7

Welcome to Color

9

About the Color Documentation

10

Additional Resources

10

11Preface Welcome to Color

11

Color Correction Basics

13

Videotapes

20

Tape Suite

20

Final Master TapeOffline Edit

20

Image Encoding Standards

23

Color Model Explained

24

Chroma Subsampling Explained

24

Bit Depth Explained

27

Contrast Explained

28

WhiteBlack

29

Luma Explained

30

What Is Setup?

30

Gamma Explained

31

Chroma Explained

31

Color Correction Workflows

35

Limitations in Color

37

A Tape-Based Workflow

40

Final Cut Pro

64

A Tapeless DI Workflow

65

Using the Color Interface

77

Using Onscreen Controls

78

Using the Mouse

79

Using Timecode Fields

80

The File Browser

82

The Shots Browser

84

Corrections Bins

85

Corrections Versus Grades

85

Do one of the following:

89

Creating and Opening Projects

92

Saving Projects

92

What Is a Color Project?

93

Saving and Opening Archives

95

Importing EDLs

101

EDL Import Settings

102

Relinking Media

104

Compatible Media Formats

106

Exporting EDLs

114

Reconforming Projects

115

Importing Color Corrections

117

Exporting JPEG Images

118

Configuring the Setup Room

119

File Browser Controls

120

Using the Shots Browser

122

Customizing the Shots Browser

125

The Grades Bin

128

The Project Settings Tab

129

Resolution and Codec Settings

130

Broadcast Safe Settings

133

Ways of Using Broadcast Safe

134

The Messages Tab

135

The User Preferences Tab

135

Media and Project Directories

136

Control Surface Settings

137

User Interface Settings

138

Using Proxies

141

Auto Save Settings

147

Opening Archives

148

Monitoring Your Project

149

Bit Depth and Monitoring

151

Choose Your Monitor Carefully

152

Using Display LUTs

153

What Is a LUT?

154

When Do You Need a LUT?

156

When Don’t You Need a LUT?

157

Generating LUTs

157

Using LUTs

158

Monitoring the Still Store

159

Basic Timeline Elements

162

Selecting the Current Shot

166

Timeline Playback

166

Color and JKL

167

Switching the Playback Mode

168

Loop Playback

168

Maintain Framerate

169

The Settings 1 Tab

174

The Settings 2 Tab

175

Select Tool

176

Roll Tool

177

Ripple Tool

178

Slip Tool

178

Split Tool

179

Splice Tool

180

Create an Edit Command

180

Merge Edits Command

181

Snapping

181

What Scopes Are Available?

183

Video Scope Options

185

The Waveform Monitor

187

The Parade Scope

189

Before color correction

190

After color correction

190

The Overlay Scope

192

The Luma Scope

193

The Chroma Scope

194

The Vectorscope

195

The Histogram

198

The 3D Scope

200

Sampling Color for Analysis

203

The Primary In Room

207

Contrast Adjustment Explained

210

Adjusts black point

212

Adjusts midtones distribution

212

Adjusts white point

212

Shadow Midtone Highlight

212

What Exactly Is Image Detail?

221

Color Casts Explained

222

Using Color Balance Controls

224

Rebalancing a Color Cast

225

Shadow control influence

228

Midtone influence

228

Highlight control influence

228

The Curves Controls

234

Source Value

235

Adjustment Value

235

Using Curves to Adjust Color

241

What Is Color Contrast?

242

The Basic Tab

245

Saturation Controls

246

Master Contrast Controls

248

The Advanced Tab

249

Printer Points Controls

250

Using the Auto Balance Button

251

The RED Tab

252

The Secondaries Room

257

Before After

258

Matte Corrected image

262

The HSL Controls

264

Tolerance

265

The Color Swatches

267

Key Blur

267

Controls in the Previews Tab

268

Matte Preview

269

Mode buttons

269

Vignette outline

269

Matte only

270

The Vignette Controls

271

Animating Vignettes

274

Before outside adjustment

278

Sat curve adjustment

280

Using the Secondary Curves

281

The Sat Curve Tab

282

Lum curve adjustment

283

The Color FX Room

285

How to Create Color FX

286

How Node Trees Work

287

Creating and Connecting Nodes

289

Adjusting Node Parameters

291

Bypassing Nodes

293

Using Single Input Nodes

295

Using Layering Nodes

295

Math Layering Nodes Explained

297

Node Reference Guide

302

Effects Nodes

303

Utility Nodes

310

The Primary Out Room

313

Ceiling Controls

315

Disabling All Grades

335

Choosing Grades in Icon View

337

Grouping and Ungrouping Shots

339

Working with Groups

342

Keyframing

347

348 Chapter 14 Keyframing

348

349Chapter 14 Keyframing

349

Keyframing Color FX

350

Keyframing User Shapes

351

352 Chapter 14 Keyframing

352

Keyframe Interpolation

353

354 Chapter 14 Keyframing

354

The Geometry Room

355

The Pan & Scan Tab

356

The Shapes Tab

361

Controls in the Shapes Tab

362

About the Shapes List

364

Drawing Shapes

364

The Tracking Tab

370

Controls in the Tracking Tab

372

Using the Tracking Tab

374

The Still Store

381

383Chapter 16 The Still Store

383

Still Store View Settings

385

387Chapter 16 The Still Store

387

The Render Queue

389

The Render Queue Interface

395

Gather Rendered Media

403

Calibrating Your Monitor

405

When monitor

407

Rendering and Color Bars

408

Keyboard Shortcuts in Color

409

Switching Rooms and Windows

410

Scopes Window Shortcuts

411

Playback and Navigation

411

Grade Shortcuts

412

Timeline-Specific Shortcuts

413

Editing Shortcuts

413

Keyframing Shortcuts

414

Still Store Shortcuts

414

Render Queue Shortcuts

415

Using Multi-Touch Controls in

417

Setting Up a Control Surface

421

Controls for the MCS-3000

424

Controls for the MCS-Spectrum

426

Controls in the CP100

427

F1 F2 F3

431

F4 F5 F6

431

F7 F8 F9

431

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