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Introducing Adobe SpeedGrade CS6

Streamlined user experience

Discover the colorist’s craft through the innovative SpeedGrade CS6 interface, which guides you

through the process of grading your projects. SpeedGrade CS6 opens in Desktop view, where you

locate clips or EDLs to add to the timeline. The Desktop provides powerful search and filter tools for

assembling your assets, and you can set up multiple Desktops to manage different projects. Once

your clips are on the Timeline, toggle to hide the Desktop and see your footage in the Monitor.

With your content loaded, click on the Look tab to apply primaries and secondaries, along with

film-style filters and effects—and shape light and color with accuracy and artistry.

A typical workflow begins with basic color correction tasks, such as balancing blacks and whites

and adjusting the gamma. This can be done with a single primary color correction layer or you can

add new layers for more granular control. You might make overall adjustments on the first primary

layer, add another layer for shadow, midtone, and highlight adjustments, and use additional layers

for secondaries. Once your shots are color-balanced and you’ve started matching your shots, you

can move on to crafting a more nuanced creative look, which you can apply scene-by-scene. Look

design communicates the mood of the story and gives your work its distinctive visual signature.

The SpeedGrade CS6 interface organizes color grading tasks logically, so you can work efficiently,

but is also flexible, so you can move around within your workflow as you shape your looks.

Locate clips, completed sequences, or EDLs on the Desktop. Add items to the timeline by double-clicking their thumbnails.

Apply color adjustments to the overall image, shadows, midtones, and highlights using the Look panel. Design and rene

looks by layering multiple primaries, secondaries, and eects.

What is a .Look le?

SpeedGradeCS6savesgrades,

includingprimariesandsecondaries,

masks,eects,andseingsforeach

layerasa.Lookle.Youcansave,

copy,reuseandmodify.Looklesfor

dierentshotsandprojects.Partsof

the.Looklecanalsobeexportedas

LUTsforusewithothertools.

Build sophisticated

looks as layers, each

with its own controls

and opacity.

Looks are stored in the

.Look browser.