Apple Color 1.5 - Manual (Page 348)

You Can’t Keyframe Clips That Use Speed Effects
While color correcting projects that were sent from Final Cut Pro, there’s a limitation to
shots with speed effects applied to them. While they can be adjusted in any of the rooms
in Color like any other shot, speed-effected shots cannot be keyframed in Color.
If you’re prepping a project in Final Cut Pro that you want to send to Color, you can avoid
this limitation by exporting all clips with speed effects as self-contained QuickTime files
and reedit them into the Timeline of your Final Cut Pro sequence to replace the original
effects before you send the sequence to Color.
Tip: If you’re exporting clips with speed effects in order to make them self-contained
QuickTime files, you may want to try sending slow motion clips to Motion, where you
can set the clip’s Frame Blending parameter to Optical Flow for smoother effects
processing. After you’ve processed your slow motion clips in Motion, it’s best to export
self-contained QuickTime files from Motion, which you can then reedit into your
Final Cut Pro sequence to replace the original effects.
You Can’t Keyframe Curves in the Primary or Secondaries Room
Curves in the Primary In and Out rooms, or in the Secondaries room, can’t be animated
with keyframes. The other parameters in the room will be animated, but curves remain
static throughout the shot.
Pan & Scan Room Keyframes Can’t Be Sent Back to Final Cut Pro
Pan & Scan keyframes that are created in Color cannot be translated into corresponding
motion effect keyframes in Final Cut Pro. All Color keyframes are removed when you send
your project back to Final Cut Pro, with the settings at the first frame of each clip being
used for translation.
Note: Keyframed Scale, Rotation, Center, and Aspect Ratio Motion tab parameters in
Final Cut Pro do not appear and are not editable in Color, but these keyframes are
preserved and reappear when you send your project back to Final Cut Pro. If a clip has
Motion tab keyframes from Final Cut Pro, it appears in Color with the geometry of the
last keyframe that’s applied to the clip. If necessary, you can Reset the geometry room
to see the entire clip, since this will have no effect on the keyframes being internally
preserved and returned to Final Cut Pro.
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