Apple Color 1.5 - Manual (Page 350)

Note: How color adjustments are animated depends on the Radial HSL Interpolation
setting in the User Prefs tab of the Setup room. In nearly all cases, you'll get the best
results by leaving this option turned off. For more information, see
The User Preferences
Tab .
Keyframing Secondary Corrections
Like parameters and controls in the Primary In and Out rooms, most of the color correction
parameters and controls in the Secondaries room can be animated. Each of the eight
secondary tabs has its own keyframe track. Furthermore, each secondary tab's Inside and
Outside settings are individually keyframed.
In addition to the color and contrast controls, the following secondary controls can also
be animated using keyframes:
• The Enable button that turns each secondary correction off and on
• The qualifiers for the secondary keyer
• The Vignette button that turns vignetting off and on
• All vignette shape parameters
Note: Secondary curves cannot be animated with keyframes.
The ability to keyframe all these controls means you can automate secondary color
correction operations in extremely powerful ways. For example, you can adjust the
qualifiers of the secondary keyer to compensate for a change of exposure in the original
shot that's causing an unwanted change in the area of isolation.
Keyframing the vignette shape parameters lets you animate vignettes to follow a moving
subject, or to create other animated spotlight effects.
Keyframing Color FX
You can keyframe node parameters in the Color FX room to create all sorts of effects.
Even though the Color FX room only has a single keyframe track, each node in your node
tree has its own keyframes. You can record the state of every parameter within a node
using a single set of keyframes; however, a node's parameters cannot be individually
keyframed.
The only keyframes that are displayed in the Color FX room's keyframe track are those of
the node that's currently selected for editing. All other node keyframes are hidden. This
can be a bit confusing at first, as keyframes appear and disappear in the Timeline
depending on which node is currently being edited.
Keyframing Pan & Scan Effects
You can keyframe all the adjustments you make using the Pan & Scan parameters and
onscreen controls in the Geometry room, creating animated Pan & Scan effects and
geometric transformations. All parameters are keyframed together.
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