Color Precision with Color

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Real-time grading controls for SD, HD, and 2K without proxies
Workflow-oriented interface divides controls into eight separate “rooms”
Primary, Secondary, and Primary Out grading functions
Color wheels with hue, saturation, and luminance controls for highlights, midtones, and shadows
Curves for individual adjustment to R,G,B and luma with B-spline control points
Advanced RGB and Printer Points controls for precise film printing
Switch between four live grades per shot
Autobalance correction available in Primary room
ASC-style Lift, Gamma, Gain controls
Eight secondaries per shot with custom mattes, key blur, and motion tracking
Animated circle, rectangle, and user shape Vignettes with inner and outer softness
Keyframing with interpolation for most controls
Color FX with node trees for compositing control
Still Store for saving and comparing reference images
Pan and Scan with preset aspect ratios
Real-time waveform monitor, vectorscopes, and histograms
3D Color Space scopes for RGB, HSL, Y’CbCr, and IPT display
Broadcast-safe limiting
Support for 3D LUTs for display calibration and output simulation
Multiple video tracks
Support for third-party control surfaces with trackballs and knobs
EDL support for DPX and Cineon files
Can render directly to DPX or Cineon file formats for film out
Use EDLs for “notching” programs without XML metadata

Round-trip projects between Color and Final Cut Pro 6 with Send to Color and Send to Final Cut Pro
Color projects configured automatically to match Final Cut Pro sequence settings
2K Digital Intermediate workflow with Final Cut Pro
Support for all standard frame rates and frame sizes
Displays dissolves and fades in the Timeline and renders for 2K projects
Constant speed change displayed in Color for playback in real time
Pan and Scan metadata sent to Final Cut Pro as Motion effect

Over 50 Color FX and premade looks
Renders at 8-bit, 10-bit, and 32-bit floating point (dependent on GPU)
Customizable node tree for effects creation
Save and reuse favorite effects
Support for third-party plug-ins
Preview playback of SD, HD and, 2K on an attached Apple Cinema Display or third-party video card

Support for 4:4:4 2K as DPX or Cineon files
Apple Uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2
Apple Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2
TIFF, JPEG, and JPEG 2000 image sequences
Apple ProRes 422 and Apple ProRes 422 (HQ), an 8- or 10- bit, full-resolution VBR format with target bit rates of 145 Mbps and 220 Mbps
Ability to render all formats at uncompressed HD or ProRes 422 and ProRes 422 (HQ)
Optional proxy creation for DPX and Cineon files
Third-party codecs from AJA and Blackmagic Design
IMX, HDV, XDCAM HD and XDCAM HD 422 can be graded but must be rendered at ProRes 422 or uncompressed resolution