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Table Of Contents
- Final Cut Studio Workflows
- Contents
- Introduction
- Developing a Post-Production Strategy
- Ingesting and Organizing Your Media
- Integration During Editorial Development
- Client Review
- Finishing
- What Is Finishing?
- Finishing Using Compressed Versus Uncompressed Media
- Format Conversion When Finishing Mixed-Format Sequences
- Reconforming Media to Online Quality
- Creating Final Broadcast Design Elements and Effects
- Color Correction
- Final Sound Editing, Design, and Mixing
- Mastering
- Output and Delivery
• Bring attention to specific elements in the frame
• Make creative adjustments to stylize the appearance of the images
In most post-production workflows, color correction is one of the last steps taken to finish
a program’s visuals. Ideally, your edit should be locked before you move on to this stage,
especially if you’re sending your sequence to Color. Although you can use Color to
reconform a project based on changes made to the sequence that was originally sent,
it’s considerably more efficient if you are able to complete and lock the edit so that this
isn’t necessary.
You have three choices in color correcting your project. For more information, see:
• “Color Correcting a Program in Final Cut Pro”
• “Sending a Project to Color”
• “Delivering a Program to Another Facility for Grading”
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