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# Colour Menu

Source Camera box
  Select the camera that created the file, or have Smoke read from the file header the camera used. Leave at Camera from File Header unless you are troubleshooting a file.
Colour Settings box
  Select how Smoke uses the colour information stored within an ARRIRAW file.

  Select: | To import ARRIRAW clips using:
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  User | The options you set in the Colour, Processing, and Image menus.
  Camera | The look created on the ARRI camera and stored in the ARRIRAW file. This option disables the Processing and Image menus, as well as the Colour Rendering box.

Save as User Settings button
  Enable to make the Colour, Processing, and Image menus editable in the Import History. Save as User Settings is implicitly enabled when the Colour Settings box is set to User.
Look Selection box
  Select from where Smoke reads the Look information, when available.

  Version 4 of the ALEXA Software Update Packet enables a "look" creation workflow. In this workflow, a look is created in the ARRI Look Creator application and either embedded in the source files during the shoot, or saved to a look file. This look information is accessible by Smoke.

  NoteWhen used, the Look file must be placed in the folder containing the source material and named look.xml.

  Select: | To:
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  Do not apply Look | Not apply any Look information.
  From File Header | Apply Look information contained in the ARRIRAW file header.
  From Look File | Apply Look information contained in an XML Look file located in the same folder as the media to import.
  Header or Look File | Apply Look information from the header of the media to import. If none is present, use the information from an XML Look file located in the same folder as the file to import.
  Look File or Header | Apply Look information from an XML Look file located in the same folder as the file to import. If none is present, use the information from the header of the file to import.

Apply Look LUT button
  Enable to use the LUT stored with the Look information read by Smoke from the location determined by the Look Selection box.
Colour Rendering box
  Select one of the preset combinations of colour spaces and encoding to apply to all imported clips, or select From File Header to read that colour space and encoding information from files header. Select Custom to create your own combination using the Colour Space and Colour Encoding boxes.
  When working with Look information, set the Colour Rendering to Rec709 or DCI P3 option. If the Colour Rendering is set to LogC, Smoke displays a checkerboard instead of the media as ARRI Look Creator does not support images encoded in LogC.
Colour Space box
  Select the colour space to used to import clips.
Colour Encoding box
  Select the value of the output gamma curve applied to imported clips.

NoteSome combinations of Source Camera, Colour Space, and Colour Rendering are not supported.