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The Color Page
The Color page is where you color correct, or grade, your program. It has all of the controls
available for manipulating color and contrast, reducing noise, creating limited secondary color
corrections, building image effects of different kinds, adjusting clip geometry, and making many
other corrective and stylistic adjustments. The Color page is divided into seven main areas that
work together to let you build a grade.
The Color page
For more detailed information about the Color page, see Chapter 113, “Using the Color Page.
Viewer
The Viewer shows the frame at the current position of the playhead in the Timeline. The
contents of the Viewer are almost always output to video via whichever I/O interface you have
connected. At the top of the Viewer is a header that displays the Project and Timeline names,
as well as a Viewer Timecode display that shows the source timecode of each clip by default.
The Timeline name is also a drop-down display that lets you switch to any other timeline in the
project. A jog bar (sometimes referred to as a scrubber bar) underneath the image lets you drag
the playhead across the entire duration of the clip, while transport controls underneath that let
you control playback. A toolbar at the top provides controls governing Image Wipes, Split-
Screen controls, and Highlight display. Additional controls let you turn audio playback on and
off, and choose which onscreen controls are currently displayed.
Viewer with transport controls
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