Apple Color 1.5 - Manual (Page 286)

The Color FX Interface Explained
The Color FX room is divided into four main areas.
Parameters Node list Node view Color FX bin
The functionality of these areas is as follows:
• Node list: A list at the left of the Color FX room contains every image processing
operation that you can add. Some of these nodes are single input, performing that
operation to whatever image is input into them, while others are multi-input, taking
multiple versions of the image and combining them using different methods. All nodes
are alphabetically organized.
• 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 corrections and Grades bins, giving you a
way of saving effects that you create for future use.
How to Create 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. You create effects by assembling one or more image processing nodes
into node trees; these work together to reprocess the image in different ways. For more
information, see:
• How Node Trees Work
• Node Inputs and Outputs Explained
• Creating and Connecting Nodes
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