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To assign an Input Color Space to one or more selected clips in the Media Pool:
1 Select the clip or clips you want to assign. Since you can assign an Input Color Space
to more than one clip at a time, it will speed things up if you use a sort or find operation,
or create a Smart Bin or Smart Filter, to identify every clip from a specific camera using
a particular format, so you can assign them all at once.
2 Do one of the following:
In the Media Pool, right-click one of the selected clips, and choose the Input Color
Space and/or Input Gamma (if Dual Setting color management is enabled) that
corresponds to those clips from the contextual menu.
In the Color page, right-click any clip’s thumbnail in the Thumbnail timeline,
and choose the Input Color Space and/or Input Gamma (if Dual Setting color
management is enabled) that corresponds to those clips from the contextual menu.
To change the Timeline and Output Color Space:
Open the Color Management panel of the Project Settings, and choose the desired options
from the single menu or pair of drop-down menus for the “Timeline Colorspace” and “Output
Colorspace” RCM settings. The default settings are “Rec.709 Gamma 2.4.” If you choose
“Bypass” in the “Output Colorspace” drop-down menu, then the Output Color Space will match
whatever you’ve selected in the “Timeline Colorspace” drop-down menu.
To limit image values to a smaller range inside of a larger gamut:
Open the Color Management panel of the Project Settings, and choose the desired option from
the “Limit Output Gamut To” drop-down menu.
To enable Gamut Mapping:
1 Open the Color Management panel of the Project Settings, and do one or
both of the following:
a. Set the “Timeline to Output Tone Mapping” drop-down to Simple or
Luminance Mapping
b. Set the “Timeline to Output Gamut Mapping” drop-down to Saturation Mapping
2 If necessary, adjust the Max. Timeline Luminance and Saturation Knee and/or
Saturation Max controls to refine the desired output.
All in all, using RCM is an easy way to ensure high image quality and a predictable starting point
when working on projects requiring log-encoded conversion, or that incorporate multiple
media formats.
Resolve Color Management and the Fusion Page
Enabling RCM also allows the Fusion page to handle the color of clips automatically. Images
output by MediaIn nodes are automatically converted to Linear color space, which is the
preferred color space with which to perform high-quality compositing operations. Setting the
LUT menu of each Viewer in the Fusion page to Managed ensures that you’re looking at the
image in Rec.709, so that the image looks correct to the artist even though they’re really
working in the Linear color space. Each MediaOut node then converts the image back to the
timeline color space for handoff to the Color page.
With RCM off, you must manage color in the Fusion page manually, either using the Source
Color Space and Source Gamma Space settings of each MediaIn node, or using the CineonLog
or FileLUT nodes in your node tree.
Chapter – 7 Data Levels, Color Management, and ACES 229