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# Accessing Colour Grading Menus

Use the Colour menu to access the Grading, Curves, Secondaries, Degrain, and Timeline menus.

To access the Colour menu:

1. In the Main menu, click Colour.

   The Colour menu appears.

(a) Colour grading menus

You can access the following colour grading menus from the Colour menu.

Grading
  Create the primary colour grade to colour balance your shots, as well as develop the continuity grade. In Log mode, adjust the brightness, contrast, and saturation across the entire image, or adjust the brightness in the shadows, midtones, and highlights. In Linear mode, adjust lift, gain, gamma, saturation, and contrast across the entire image or in the shadows, midtones, and highlights. You can also clamp minimum and maximum luminance values. Enable the Input button for initial primary colour grading, and the Output button to create the final look.
Curves
  Refine the primary or secondary colour grade. Remap colour values for the red, green, and blue channels individually or all together using the RGB curves. Adjust the hue, saturation, lightness, and luminance using the Hue curves. Enable the Input button to refine the initial primary grade, and the Output button to refine the final colour grade.
Secondaries
  Define up to 48 secondary layers that can then be graded using the Grading, Curves, Degrain, and Sparks Effects menus. Generate keys that define your secondaries by isolating colour ranges in the image. Create and track geometries to include with, or exclude from, the secondary colour grade.
Degrain
  Analyse the grain profile of a frame, and use spatial degrain operations to remove grain and noise with secondary layers. See About Grain Removal.

NoteTo analyse the source image before you begin primary grading, access the Degrain menu from the Image menu instead.

Timeline
  The colourist's timeline is a simple user interface that allows the colourist to work in a timeline interface without all the timeline editing tools. In this interface you can work in Normal or Solo mode, add cuts and dissolves, and create a new version of a shot. You do not have access to the trimming tools.

#### Topics in this section

- Displaying Colour Menus in the Player