Project Management is definition of project and user settings to customize the colour grading environment.
In Lustre, a project uses the following hierarchy:
Project: Generally speaking, a Lustre project corresponds to a large work effort such as a film. A project contains all the information regarding the location of:
- Project data files
- Original footage
- Rendered files
Scene: A scene contains the Libraries, the Scene-based Grade Bin and degrained material within the project.
Library: The library contains the source clips, cuts, grades, audio and related metadata.
Cut: A group of shots that get rendered.
Grade: The operations performed on a cut.
In addition, a project also contains information about the users accessing the project, and their preferences. Lustre saves the preferences of each user of a project at the end of every work session. The saved settings are restored when the user logs back on.
To prepare a project for colour grading: