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Chapter 15, Secondary Colour Grading
Accessing Secondary Grading Menus

You perform secondary colour grading with the Secondaries and Grading menus.

For control surface mappings, see Generating Keys and Creating and Grading Geometries for the Autodesk control surface, or Secondary Colour Grading for the Tangent CP100.

To access menus for secondary colour grading:

  1. In the Main menu, click Colour.

    The Colour menu appears.

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    1. Grading button
    1. Secondaries button
    1. Grading menu

  2. Click one of the following buttons.

    Secondaries--Displays the Secondaries menu, where you can create keys to isolate ranges of colour, and create and track geometries to isolate objects or areas in the shot. Use logical operations to link geometries across secondaries.

    Grading--Displays the Grading menu. Once geometries have been created, use the Grading menu for secondary colour grading. In Log mode, make adjustments to brightness, contrast, saturation, and hue. In Linear mode, make adjustments to lift, gain, hue, gamma, and saturation. Use logical operations to link geometries across secondaries.

    Note: You can also modify RGB and Hue curves for secondaries using the Curves menu. For information, see Chapter 14, Colour Grading: RGB and Hue Curves.

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