Apple Color 1.5 - Manual (Page 9)

Welcome to the world of professional video and film grading and manipulation using
Color.
This preface covers the following:
• About Color (p. 9)
• About the Color Documentation (p. 10)
• Additional Resources (p. 10)
About Color
Color has been designed from the ground up as a feature-rich color correction environment
that complements a wide variety of post-production workflows, whether your project is
standard definition, high definition, or a 2K digital intermediate. If you've edited a program
using Final Cut Pro, it's easy to send your program to Color for grading and then send it
back to Final Cut Pro for final output. However, it's also easy to reconform projects that
originate as EDLs from other editing environments.
Color has the tools that professional colorists demand, including:
• Primary color correction using three-way color balance and contrast controls with
individual shadow, midtone, and highlight controls
• Curve controls for detailed color and luma channel adjustments
• Up to eight secondary color correction operations per shot with HSL qualifiers, vignettes,
user shapes, and separate adjustments for the inside and outside of each secondary
• Color FX node-based effects for creating custom color effects
• Pan & Scan effects
• Motion tracking that can be used to animate vignettes, user shapes, and other effects
• Broadcast legal settings to guarantee adherence to quality control standards
• Support for color correction–specific control surfaces
• And much, much more
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