Colour correction and grading

Every picture input carries its own colour correction, independent of every other input. Open an input’s settings and go to its Colour tab, then switch between Correction and Grading at the top.

Colour applies live, as fast as you move a slider — if that input is on Program, you see the change on air as you drag, not only once you let go, unlike framing a source.

Correction

White Balance has a Red, Green and Blue stop each, two stops either way, plus an overall Hue shift up to 180°; Neutral clears all four in one press. To match a camera automatically instead, press Pick Reference…, then click something in the frozen, uncorrected picture that should be neutral grey or white — a grey card, a wall, a shirt. The picture updates from that one click; picking again replaces it.

Exposure has one Stops slider, five stops either way.

Tone adds five more: Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Shadows and Highlights. Brightness lifts everything, including black, which exposure cannot touch; Shadows and Highlights each reach only one end of the range and leave the other alone. Every slider here has its own reset arrow, and Reset All, beside Pick Reference…, clears the whole tab in one press.

Grading

A three-way grade pushes a hue into each of three tonal bands — Shadows, Midtones and Highlights — independent of the correction above. Each band has its own Hue (0–360°, shown as a small colour swatch) and Strength (0–100%); a band at 0% strength changes nothing, whatever its hue is set to.

Presets save a grade under a name and bring it back later, or onto another input — a look you built once, put on a whole show, without repeating the work. A preset carries the three grading bands alone: applying one changes an input’s look without disturbing the white balance or exposure it needed to match its camera in the first place.

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Framing a source, the other half of what an input’s card opens.