Apple Color 1.5 - Manual (Page 100)

Don’t Reedit Projects in Color
By default, all the video tracks of projects sent from Final Cut Pro are locked. When you’re
grading a project, it’s important to avoid unlocking them or making any editorial changes
to the shots in the Color Timeline if you’re planning to send the project back to
Final Cut Pro.
If you need to make an editorial change, reedit the original sequence in Final Cut Pro,
export a new XML file, and use the Reconform command to update the Color Timeline
to match the changes. For more information, see
Reconforming Projects . For more
information about Final Cut Pro XML files, see the Final Cut Pro 7 User Manual.
Importing an XML File into Color
If you need to deliver a Final Cut Pro sequence and its media to another facility to be
graded using Color, you can also use the Export XML command in Final Cut Pro to export
the sequence. For more information about exporting XML from Final Cut Pro, see the
Final Cut Pro 7 User Manual.
In Color, you then use the Import XML command to turn the XML file into a Color project.
To speed up this process, you can copy the XML file you want to import into the default
project directory specified by Color.
To import an XML file into Color
1 Do one of the following:
• Open Color.
• If Color is already open, choose File > Import > XML.
2 Choose an XML file from the Projects dialog.
3 Click Load.
A new Color project is automatically created in the default project directory specified in
User Preferences. The shots that appear in the Timeline should match the original
Final Cut Pro sequence that was exported.
Don’t Reedit Imported XML Projects in Color
By default, all the video tracks of imported XML projects are locked. When you’re grading
a project, it’s important to avoid unlocking them or making any editorial changes to
the shots in the Color Timeline if you’re planning to send the project back to Final Cut Pro.
If you need to make an editorial change, reedit the original sequence in Final Cut Pro,
export a new XML file (see the Final Cut Pro 7 User Manual for more information), and
use the Reconform command to update the Color Timeline to match the changes. For
more information, see
Reconforming Projects .
100 Chapter 4 Importing and Managing Projects and Media