Apple Color 1.0 - Manual (Page 35)

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Color Correction Workflows
Taking maximum advantage of Color requires careful
workflow management. This chapter outlines where Color fits
into your post-production workflow.
Color has been designed to work hand in hand with editing applications like
Final Cut Pro via XML and QuickTime media support, or with other editorial
environments via EDL and image sequence support. While video and film input and
editing are taken care of elsewhere, Color gives you a dedicated environment with
which to focus on color correction and related effects.
This chapter gives you a quick overview of how to guide your project through a
workflow that includes using Color for color correction. Information is provided about
both standard and high definition broadcast video workflows, as well as 2K digital
intermediate workflows.
This chapter covers the following:
 An Overview of the Color Workflow (p. 35)
 Limitations in Color (p. 37)
 Video Finishing Workflows Using Final Cut Pro (p. 39)
 Importing Projects from Other Video Editing Applications (p. 47)
 Using Color in a Digital Intermediate Workflow (p. 49)
 Using EDLs, Timecode, and Frame Numbers to Conform Projects (p. 56)
An Overview of the Color Workflow
The Color controls are divided into eight tabbed rooms, each of which corresponds to a
different stage in a typical color-correction workflow. Each room that you select remaps
the buttons, dials, and trackballs of your control surface (if you have one) to correspond
to the controls in that room.