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# 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.

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.

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.