tools tested with Final Cut Studio 2 and 3 (Final Cut Pro 6 and; 7, Color 1 and 1.5, xml version 4 and 5)
- Charbon-Studio Profiles to make Color faster
- luts to improve the handling of dpxs files on Color
- batch modify the shots of a Color project
- gather the dpxs rendered out of Color
- repair the looping bug with spanned r3d files
- batch transfer the grades from one Color project to the other (aka start new without starting from scratch, do not lose your grades)
- update an fcp timeline so as to use the very last renders from a Color project
- inside a Color project
- solve the crash on save bug of Color
inside a Color project
- in Finder, navigate to Documents -> Color Documents ; right click on your project and choose "show content of the package"
- * projectname.pdl has settings for the project
- * Archives folder : every time a project is saved, Color makes a backup, to allow future restoration. This folder is often heavy. Its content can be erased, without losing any functionality but restoration.
- * Shots folder : holds a list of numbered folders ; all the grades of Shot 1 are in folder Shots/1, for Shot 2 in Shots/2, etc...
- shotnumber.lsi is a binary cache file. It is not human readable, and can be deleted
- shotnumber.si contains the shot settings
- (media directory,
- file extension,
- format,
- rendered state)
- etc...
- it can be opened in TextEdit
- PanAndScan/shotnumber.pns holds the geometry settings of the shot
- (aspect ratio,
- scale,
- position)
- etc...
- it can be opened in TextEdit
- Grade1, Grade2, Grade3, Grade4 hold the 4 grades that can be applied to every shot
- shotnumber_in.0.pcc holds the Primary In grading
- shotnumber_out.0.pcc holds the Primary Out grading
- shotnumber.0.scc holds secondaries grading
- shotnumber.cfx holds FX effects
- shotnumber.kfd holds the keyframes
- * the directory StillStore holds avery Stills you have taken in your project. It can be emptied without loosing anything but the stills