Specifications

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Color Correction Toolset
Automatic color correction tends to function well in the following situations:
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When you primarily need to open up the tonal range (contrast) of an
image, setting accurate black and white values.
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When you need to correct a minimal color cast.
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While you’re learning color correction techniques. If you are having dif-
ficulty manually correcting an image, it may offer you a helpful approach.
When Not to Use Automatic Color Correction
The major drawback of automatic color correction is that it cannot evaluate
the contents of a scene. It doesn’t see landscape or faces; it can’t differen-
tiate between foreground and background. So, the correction tools make
assumptions based only on the colors and luma values in the frame, and
these assumptions may or may not be appropriate to the subject matter.
Other color correction problems are not appropriate for automatic correction
and manual correction techniques should be used instead:
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When a significant area of an image is overexposed or underexposed.
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When images show extreme white-balance issues, or in mixed-lighting
conditions where part of the image is white-balanced while other parts
of the image are not.
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When video is poorly calibrated and areas of the image exceed legal
white levels or fall below legal black levels.
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When images lack the appropriate distinct white or black regions:
The Auto Contrast, Auto White, and Auto Black corrections are effec-
tive only with images that have the appropriate content for calculating
either white or black, or both; such as areas of strong highlight (white
or close to white) or areas of strong shadow (black or close to black).
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When images have their own natural color cast. Some images should
have a distinct color cast (such as a shot of a group of trees that is
almost entirely green).
Color Correction Toolset
Media Composer has an entire toolset dedicated to color correction.
To open the Color Corre ction tools et, select Toolsets > Colo r Corr ectio n,
or click the Color Correction button on the Timeline Tool palette
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The interface displays three monitors (that you can configure using the menus
at the top of each monitor), the Color Correction tool, and the Timeline.
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