Color. Cinema-Quality Signature Looks.
Realize the director’s vision with a signature look for a film. Create a unified look for a series of broadcast programs or promos. Or design a look for a low-budget project that makes it feel like a blockbuster. Color makes it easy to create, reuse and share grades that express a specific mood, tone or visual style. It even includes a library of grades to help you get started fast when you’re ready to create the perfect look for your project.
“Live” colour grades
A colour grade gives a project its distinctive look by storing a set of adjustments made across multiple rooms. Work dynamically with up to four “live” grades that you can switch at will as you evaluate different looks. Rapidly make changes using nondestructive tools and see your results in real time. You can even use live grading with real footage for rapid tests on the set, to ensure that the lighting and other aspects of the production design will support the final look.
Reusable grades
Color makes it easy to experiment freely, with or without a client in the room. Apply a grade to an entire sequence, copy and paste grades and save any grade for reuse or distribution. A professional colourist using Final Cut Studio can create a grade for you on a separate workstation. Then you can import the grade into Color and apply it to your sequences before returning to Final Cut Pro for finishing and output.
Built-in looks
Get started fast by choosing one of more than 20 looks provided as custom effects in the Color FX Bin. The looks, reminiscent of your favorite films, include Dream Warm, Day for Night, Warm Glow and Movie Look Green for a science fiction feel. Modify the looks if you wish or create and save your own custom looks.
3D lookup tables (LUTs)
When you’re doing precise high-resolution colour grading, you want to be sure that the colour you see on your grading monitor is exactly the same colour you’ll see on the big screen. Import standard 3D lookup tables into Color to represent the colour space for common film stocks, projection systems and digital video formats or create your own colour management system to match specialized display or projection requirements.