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Chapter 2
Color Correction Workflows
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Important:
Do not use the Media Manager to either rename or delete unused media in
your project when working with offline media that refers to camera negative. If you do,
you’ll lose the ability to create accurate pull lists in Cinema Tools.
Step 6:
Pre-render effects, send the sequence to Color, and grade
At this point, the workflow is identical to step 7 in “
Importing Projects from Other Video Editing Applications
Color is also capable of importing projects from other editing environments, by
importing Edit Decision Lists (EDLs). An EDL is an event-based list of all the edits and
transitions that make up a program.
Once you’ve imported your project file into Color, and copied the program media onto
a storage device with the appropriate performance, you can then link the shots on the
Color Timeline with their corresponding media.
Importing EDLs in a Final Cut Pro to Color Round Trip
If you’ve been provided with an EDL of the edited program and a box of source media,
you can import the EDL into Final Cut Pro to capture the project’s media and prepare
the project for sending to Color. In addition to being able to recapture the footage,
Final Cut Pro is compatible with more EDL formats than is Color. Also, Final Cut Pro is
capable of reading superimpositions and audio edits, in addition to the video edits.
Note: Although capable of importing EDLs directly, Color only reads the video portion
of edits in track V1. Video transitions, audio, and superimpositions are ignored.
Step 1:
Import the project into Final Cut Pro
Import the EDL of the edited project into Final Cut Pro.
Final
Cut Pro
XML
Online
Media
Source Media
and EDL file
Color
Send to
Color
Output
Final
Master
XML
New Color
Corrected
Media
Final
Effects and
Output
Final
Cut Pro
Send to
Final Cut Pro
Render
Color
Correction
Media
Data
Import EDL
to Create
Project
Recapture
Media