Timeline FX Quick Menu Settings

To see the full Colour Correct menu, click the Editor button.

Luma Range Quick Menu selector

Select the quick menu for the luma range you want to modify.

Colour Channel Quick Menu selector

Select the quick menu for the colour channel you want to modify.

Use Matte button

Enable to use the matte input as part of the effect processing.

Main Menu

Master button

Modifies the luma range for the entire image after individual range modifications.

Shadows button

Modifies the luma range for the dark areas in the image.

Midtones button

Modifies the luma range for the midlevel areas in the image.

Highlights button

Modifies the luma range for the light areas in the image.

Regen button

Enable to get dynamic updating of your colour corrections.

Rewire box

Select an option to rewire the RGB channels of an image, or create a monochrome or negative image.

Red Rewiring box

Select a color or luma channel to replace the red values with the selected channel values. Select 1-R to replace red values with its inverse values. Active when Master range is selected.

Green Rewiring box

Select a color or luma channel to replace the green values of an image with its inverse (1-R), red, blue, or luma values. Active when Master range is selected.

Blue Rewiring box

Select a color or luma channel to replace the blue values of an image with its inverse (1-R), red, green, or luma values. Active when Master range is selected.

Reset Basics

Resets colour correction controls.

Hue field

Displays the colour range. Editable.

Saturation field

Displays level of colour purity in the image. Editable.

Pivot field

Displays the percentage value of the colour range around which the contrast pivots. The default value is 50% for integer input and 18% for floating point input. Editable.

Hue field

Displays the colour range. Editable.

Gain field

Drag left or right to increase or decrease light greys from the white area of the image.

RGB Gamma field

Adjust the grey values. Editable.

Red Gamma field

Adjust the grey values in the red channel. Editable.

Green Gamma field

Adjust the grey values in the green channel. Editable.

Blue Gamma field

Adjust the grey values in the blue channel. Editable.

RGB Gain field

Set the percentage of original colour values to use in the image. Editable.

Red Gain field

Set the percentage of colour values in the red channel to display in the image. Editable.

Green Gain field

Set the percentage of colour values in the green channel to display in the image. Editable.

Blue Gain field

Set the percentage of colour values in the blue channel to display in the image. Editable.

RGB Offset field

Adjust the colour values by adding an offset value. Editable.

Red Offset field

Adjust the colour values in the red channel by adding an offset value. Editable.

Green Offset field

Adjust the colour values in the green channel by adding an offset value. Editable.

Blue Offset field

Adjust the colour values in the blue channel by adding an offset value. Editable.

Contrast field

Adjust the gradations between the light and dark areas in the image. Editable.

Red Contrast field

Adjust the gradations between the light and dark areas in the red channel of image. Editable.

Green Contrast field

Adjust the gradations between the light and dark areas in the green channel of image. Editable.

Blue Contrast field

Adjust the gradations between the light and dark areas in the blue channel of image. Editable.

Red Suppression button

Enable to suppress red colour values in the image.

Green Suppression button

Enable to suppress green colour values in the image.

Blue Suppression button

Enable to suppress blue colour values in the image.

Cyan Suppression button

Enable to suppress cyan colour values in the image.

Magenta Suppression button

Enable to suppress magenta colour values in the image.

Yellow Suppression button

Enable to suppress yellow colour values in the image.

Front colour patch

Displays colour sampled from the front clip.

Result colour patch

Displays the result of front clip colour correction.

Back colour patch

Displays colour sampled from the back clip.

Sampling box

Select the type of colour values to display for sampled colours.

Sample Data Type box

Select the type of measurement to use for RGB values of sampled colours.

Histogram Menu

Histogram tab

Displays the Histogram menu where you adjust the red, green, blue, and luminance channels of the image.

Histogram

Displays a bar graph that is used to adjust the luminance values of the image. In the Ranges menu, the curves for the three luma ranges are also displayed.

Minimum Input field

Sets the lower limit of the luminance values. Pixels with values below are mapped to black.

Minimum Output field

Sets the lower limit of the luminance values for black pixels.

Maximum Input field

Sets the upper limit of the luminance values. Pixels with values above are mapped to white.

Maximum Output field

Sets the upper limit of the luminance values for white pixels.

Channel Selection box

Select the luminance or an RGB channel to extract its values for the key.

Out Range option

Select a curve that is constant (Clamp) or linear (No Clamp) before the first point of the curve and after the last point of the curve.

When using 16-bit floating point images, you can select Clamp to clamp colour and luminance values, or No Clamp to allow pixel floating point values to be less the 0 or more than 1.

Frame Selection option

Select whether to frame the histogram based on minimum and maximum slider values, the full range of histogram values, the plot and reference colours, or the [0:1] vertical and horizontal range.

Source

Enable to show a histogram of the source colour values.

The source colour values are obtained from the current frame. If you input both front and matte clips, the colour values in the front clip that are defined by the white part of the matte are displayed.

Source View option

Select whether to display all RGB Source histograms or only the histogram you are working on (Mono).

Destination

Enable to show a histogram of the colour values in the result or destination clip.

The destination colour values are obtained from the current frame. If you input both front and matte clips, the colour values in the front clip that are defined by the white part of the matte are displayed.

Destination View option

Select whether to display all RGB Destination histograms or only the histogram you are working on (Mono).

When viewing the Source and Destination histograms at the same time in Mono mode, the Destination histograms are lighter; in RGB mode, the Destination histograms are displayed with a white outline.

Reset

Reset to the default histogram settings.

Zoom field

Displays the vertical zoom value of the histogram.

You can also zoom horizontally by pressing Ctrl+spacebar and dragging left or right in the histogram. To pan horizontally, click spacebar and drag left or right in the histogram.

Curves Menu

Curves tab

Displays the Curves menu to display luminance and RGB curves.

Curves

Display the curves for the luminance and each RGB channel.

Luminance Curve

Select the luminance channel curve.

Red Curve

Select the red channel curve.

Green Curve

Select the green channel curve.

Blue Curve

Select the blue channel curve.

Home

Reset the position and zoom of the curves canvas.

Frame All

Frame all the points within the curves canvas.

Frame Channel

Frame and zoom in on the points from the selected curves points within the curves canvas.

Reset All

Reset all curves in the curves canvas.

Reset Selected

Reset only the selected curves in the curves canvas.

Out Range option

Select a curve that is constant (Clamp) or linear (No Clamp) before the first point of the curve and after the last point of the curve.

Match

Matches colours in the front and back colour patches, and assigns a number to the current match.

Match field

Displays which match is currently displayed.

ReMatch

Overrides the selected match operation with current settings.

Ranges Menu

Ranges tab

Displays the HLS Ranges menu where you can adjust highlight, midtone, and shadow ranges.

Reset

Reset to default ranges settings.

Node Preferences

Invert Matte

Enable to colour correct the region outside the area defined by the matte.

Background field

Displays the background brightness value.