Apple Color 1.5 User Manual
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After the offline edit is complete, the media used by the edited program must be
recaptured from the source tapes at maximum quality. The resulting online media is what
will be used for the Final Cut Pro–to–Color roundtrip.
Final Cut Pro
Output
Final Master
XML
Online
Media
XML
New Color
Corrected
Media
Offline Duplicates
Source Media
Final Cut Pro
Color
Online
Reconform
Offline
Edit
Media
Data
Send to
Color
Render
Color
Correction
Send to
Final Cut Pro
Final
Effects and
Output
The following steps break this process down more explicitly.
Stage 1:
Capturing the Source Media at Offline or Online Resolution
How you decide to capture your media prior to editing depends on its format. Compressed
formats, including DV, DVCPRO-50, DVCPRO HD, and HDV, can be captured at their highest
quality without requiring enormous storage resources. If this is the case, then capturing
and editing your media using its native resolution and codec lets you eliminate the
time-consuming step of recapturing (sometimes called conforming or reconforming) your
media later.
Uncompressed video formats, or projects where there are many, many reels of source
media, may benefit from being captured at a lower resolution or with a more highly
compressed codec. This will save disk space and also enable you to edit using less
expensive equipment. Later, you'll have to recapture the media prior to color correction.
Stage 2:
Editing the Program in Final Cut Pro
Edit your program in Final Cut Pro, as you would any other project. If you're planning on
an extensive use of effects in your program during editorial, familiarize yourself with the
topics covered in
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Chapter 2
Color Correction Workflows