Apple Color 1.0 - Manual (Page 236)

236 Chapter 11 Color FX
 Node View: The Node View, at the center of the Color FX room, is the area where
nodes that you create appear and are connected together and arranged into the
node trees that create the effect.
 Parameters tab: When you select a node in the Node View, its parameters appear in
this tab so that you can adjust and customize them.
 Color FX Bin: This bin works similarly to the correction and Grades bins, giving you a
way of saving effects that you create for future use.
How to Make Color FX
The Color FX room is not a compositing environment in which you combine multiple
images together. The only image you can bring into this room for processing is that of
the current shot.
How Node Trees Work
In the Color image processing pipeline, the Color FX room processes the image as it
appears after whatever corrections have been applied in the Primary In and Secondaries
rooms. Unattached node inputs automatically connect to the state of the image as it’s
affected by the Primary In and Secondaries rooms. This is how each node tree begins,
with an empty input that’s automatically connected to the corrected image.
Note: The sole exception to this is the Color node, which generates a frame of solid
color that you can use with multi-input math nodes to tint an image in different ways.
To perform more operations on an image, you simply add more nodes, connecting the
outputs of previously added nodes to the inputs of new nodes using noodles.