Color 1.5. Accessible Toolset.

Get started fast with the familiar primary and secondary tools in Color 1.5. Then use curve controls, a Keyframe Editor, and more to make additional adjustments. For even faster grading, use a control surface to adjust multiple parameters at the same time.

Timeline and Bins

Color lets you use familiar tools to manage your color grade. Your sequence in Color appears the same way you see it in Final Cut Pro, complete with a customizable multitrack Timeline. Bins are used to save settings for later reuse, including Corrections (made in a single room), Grades (all the corrections made in multiple rooms), Still Store images, and custom color effects.

Primary grading tools

Primary grading tools are used to make adjustments to the entire image in a still graphic, scene, or sequence. Use color wheels to adjust highlights, midtones, and shadows. Rapidly make adjustments for lift, gamma, gain, and saturation. You can make primary corrections to begin grading or add them on top of other color or geometry effects.

Secondary grading tools

Secondary grading tools let you adjust parameters that affect only specific objects, areas, or color ranges in the scene. Select areas using hue, saturation, or luminance values. Or create custom masks, called Vignettes — including freeform shapes with soft edges that offer complete control over edge falloff. Automatic motion tracking makes it easy to attach a Vignette to a moving object.

Curve controls

Quickly refine primary grades using highly responsive, interactive curve controls. Add control points and make adjustments to red, green, blue, and luma curves while seeing the results immediately. Automatic B-spline smoothing between control points helps you get to your final look faster.

3D Color Space scope

An innovative scope displays chrominance and luminance in a single view that you can manipulate in 3D space — all with real-time response and precise control. Viewing in 3D space helps you to isolate a specific color. Use the 3D Color Space scope to monitor RGB, HSL, Y’CbCr, or IPT values as you make fine-grained color grading adjustments.

Interactive 2D scopes

Work quickly and accurately by instantly seeing changes in waveform monitors and vectorscopes as you make adjustments. Easily toggle between IRE and millivolt units, and zoom in to see critical details. For additional information, you can use scopes that show histogram and RGB parade views.

Keyframe Editor

Tune primary, secondary, and geometry parameters over the duration of your scene or sequence by using the Keyframe Editor. Add as many control points as you need; Color automatically creates the values for in-between frames.

Control surfaces

For even greater efficiency, add industry-standard control surfaces with trackballs and knobs that allow you to control multiple parameters at the same time. Choose a high-end controller from Tangent Devices or JLCooper, or use one of the new, affordable models from leading manufacturers, including the Tangent Devices Wave and the Euphonix MC Color.

3D lookup tables (LUTs)

Match your grading monitor to the color you’ll see on the big screen. Import standard 3D lookup tables to represent the color space for common film stocks, projection systems, and digital video formats, or create your own color management system for specialized display or projection requirements.