Colour Correct Menu Settings

Main Menu

Crop button

Displays a crop box to view colour changes on a limited region of the clip.

Setup button

Opens the Setup menu where you setup either Colour Correct or Colour Warper options.

Animation button

Opens the Animation menu where you display the animation channel.

Master button

Modifies the luma range for the entire image after individual range modifications.

Shadows button

Modifies the luma range for the dark areas in the image.

Midtones button

Modifies the luma range for the midlevel areas in the image.

Highlights button

Modifies the luma range for the light areas in the image.

Regen button

Enable to get dynamic updating of your colour corrections.

Rewire box

Select an option to rewire the RGB channels of an image, or create a monochrome or negative image.

Red Rewiring box

Select a color or luma channel to replace the red values with the selected channel values. Select 1-R to replace red values with its inverse values. Active when Master range is selected.

Green Rewiring box

Select a color or luma channel to replace the green values of an image with its inverse (1-R), red, blue, or luma values. Active when Master range is selected.

Blue Rewiring box

Select a color or luma channel to replace the blue values of an image with its inverse (1-R), red, green, or luma values. Active when Master range is selected.

Reset Basics

Resets colour correction controls.

Hue field

Displays the colour range. Editable.

Saturation field

Displays level of colour purity in the image. Editable.

Pivot field

Displays the percentage value of the colour range around which the contrast pivots. The default value is 50% for integer input and 18% for floating point input. Editable.

Hue field

Displays the colour range. Editable.

Gain field

Drag left or right to increase or decrease light greys from the white area of the image.

RGB Gamma field

Adjust the grey values. Editable.

Red Gamma field

Adjust the grey values in the red channel. Editable.

Green Gamma field

Adjust the grey values in the green channel. Editable.

Blue Gamma field

Adjust the grey values in the blue channel. Editable.

RGB Gain field

Set the percentage of original colour values to use in the image. Editable.

Red Gain field

Set the percentage of colour values in the red channel to display in the image. Editable.

Green Gain field

Set the percentage of colour values in the green channel to display in the image. Editable.

Blue Gain field

Set the percentage of colour values in the blue channel to display in the image. Editable.

RGB Offset field

Adjust the colour values by adding an offset value. Editable.

Red Offset field

Adjust the colour values in the red channel by adding an offset value. Editable.

Green Offset field

Adjust the colour values in the green channel by adding an offset value. Editable.

Blue Offset field

Adjust the colour values in the blue channel by adding an offset value. Editable.

Contrast field

Adjust the gradations between the light and dark areas in the image. Editable.

Red Contrast field

Adjust the gradations between the light and dark areas in the red channel of image. Editable.

Green Contrast field

Adjust the gradations between the light and dark areas in the green channel of image. Editable.

Blue Contrast field

Adjust the gradations between the light and dark areas in the blue channel of image. Editable.

Red Suppression button

Enable to suppress red colour values in the image.

Green Suppression button

Enable to suppress green colour values in the image.

Blue Suppression button

Enable to suppress blue colour values in the image.

Cyan Suppression button

Enable to suppress cyan colour values in the image.

Magenta Suppression button

Enable to suppress magenta colour values in the image.

Yellow Suppression button

Enable to suppress yellow colour values in the image.

Front colour patch

Displays colour sampled from the front clip.

Result colour patch

Displays the result of front clip colour correction.

Back colour patch

Displays colour sampled from the back clip.

Sampling box

Select the type of colour values to display for sampled colours.

Sample Data Type box

Select the type of measurement to use for RGB values of sampled colours.

Histogram Menu

Histogram tab

Displays the Histogram menu where you adjust the red, green, blue, and luminance channels of the image.

Histogram

Displays a bar graph that is used to adjust the luminance values of the image. In the Ranges menu, the curves for the three luma ranges are also displayed.

Minimum Input field

Displays the lower limit of the luminance values. Pixels with lower values are mapped to black.

Minimum Output field

Displays the lower limit of the luminance values for black pixels.

Maximum Input field

Displays the upper limit of the luminance values. Pixels with higher values are mapped to white.

Maximum Output field

Displays the upper limit of the luminance values for white pixels.

Channel Selection box

Select the luminance or an RGB channel to extract its values for the key.

Selections are: Luminance, Red, Green, or Blue.

Out Range box

Select a curve that is constant (Clamp) or linear (No Clamp) before the first point of the curve and after the last point of the curve.

When using 16-bit floating point images, you can select Clamp to clamp colour and luminance values, or No Clamp to allow pixel floating point values to be less the 0 or more than 1.

Frame Selection box

Select whether to frame the histogram based on minimum and maximum slider values, the full range of histogram values, the plot and reference colours, or the [0:1] vertical and horizontal range (Home).

Source button

Enable to show a histogram of the source colour values.

The source colour values are obtained from the current frame. If you input both front and matte clips, the colour values in the front clip that are defined by the white part of the matte are displayed.

Source View box

Select whether to display all RGB Source histograms or only the histogram you are working on (Mono).

Destination button

Enable to show a histogram of the colour values in the result or destination clip.

The destination colour values are obtained from the current frame. If you input both front and matte clips, the colour values in the front clip that are defined by the white part of the matte are displayed.

Destination View box

Select whether to display all RGB Destination histograms or only the histogram you are working on (Mono).

When viewing the Source and Destination histograms at the same time in Mono mode, the Destination histograms are lighter; in RGB mode, the Destination histograms are displayed with a white outline.

Reset button

Resets to default histogram settings.

The Basic properties of the Colour Corrector are unaffected.

Zoom field

Displays the vertical zoom value of the histogram.

You can also zoom horizontally by pressing Ctrl+spacebar and dragging left or right in the histogram. To pan horizontally, click spacebar and drag left or right in the histogram.

Curves Menu

Curves tab

Displays the Curves menu to display luminance and RGB curves.

Curves

Display the curves for the luminance and each RGB channel.

Home button

Restores the position of panned or zoomed curves to the default setting.

Move button

This setting is available when you access the Colour Corrector via the Timeline. Select an option to work directly in the image window or schematic.

Match button

Matches colours in the front and back colour patches, and assigns a number to the current match.

Match field

Displays which match is currently displayed.

ReMatch button

Overrides the selected match operation with current settings.

Out Range box

Select a curve that is constant (Clamp) or linear (No Clamp) before the first point of the curve and after the last point of the curve.

Reset button

Resets to default curve settings.

Ranges Menu

Ranges tab

Displays the HLS Ranges menu where you can adjust highlight, midtone, and shadow ranges.

Reset button

Resets to default histogram and curve settings.

Setup

Border button

Enable to display a crop box border.

Border colour pot

Displays the border colour. Editable.

Top field

Displays the position for the top of the crop box. Editable.

Bottom field

Displays the position for the bottom of the crop box. Editable.

Left field

Displays the position for the left side of the crop box. Editable.

Right field

Displays the position for the right side of the crop box. Editable.

Invert Matte button

Enable to colour correct the region outside the area defined by the matte.

Border button

Enable to display a crop box border.

Border colour pot

Displays the border colour. Editable.

Top field

Displays the position for the top of the crop box. Editable.

Bottom field

Displays the position for the bottom of the crop box. Editable.

Left field

Displays the position for the left side of the crop box. Editable.

Right field

Displays the position for the right side of the crop box. Editable.

Invert Matte button

Enable to colour correct the region outside the area defined by the matte.