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 specific sequence of shots (or a scene) within the project.
• 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:

1. (Optional) Before running Lustre for the first time, configure the init.config file. See Configuring System Settings.
2. Create and set up the project. See Project Configuration.
3. Create and set up the users for the project. See User Configuration.
4. Create scenes. See Working With Scenes.
5. Organize the footage in cuts. See Working With Cuts.
6. Create grades. See Working With Grades.