Options section
The Options section contains three helpful functions. These functions each affect your footage globally; they are not tied to a correction stage.
Flip Image checkbox
Turn on this switch to quickly flip your shot before color correction. Turned off by default (unchecked).
Flip Image makes it simple to deal with some brands of 35mm adaptors used on video cameras, like the Panasonic HVX200 and Sony EX-1, which capture the image upside-down. This is a convenience added specifically to help out the independent film maker.
Final Cut Pro Note: If you are working with images from a 35mm adapter or a 3D rig, use Colorista's Flip Image instead of using the Motion tab to rotate the image. All of the controls that you expect in Colorista work correctly, like the Power Mask flipping along with the image.
Show Skin Overlay checkbox
The Skin Overlay helps you to determine which areas in your image are the correct skin tone. Turned off by default (unchecked).
When you turn on Skin Overlay, an orange grid will indicate where you have true skin tones. This grid helps you set up skin colors that will not only look correct but will align properly to correct skin tones on a vectorscope (a device used to measure color in a video signal). As you change the Colorista settings, the Skin Overlay grid will shrink or grow, and cover areas that should be flesh tones.
Wherever the orange lines are drawn, a true skin tone is underneath. If the orange lines increase, that means you have added true skin tone. If the lines decrease, you have removed true skin tone.
Keyboard shortcut: Toggle on/off the 'S' key to Show Skin Overlay. NOTE: When Colorista is not active in After Effects, the S key will follow its default shortcut for toggling visibility of the Scale parameter in the Timeline.
Left to right, Skin Overlay identifies the skin tones before and after Auto Balance correction.
Render Using pop-up
The Render Using pop-up gives you render engine flexibility. Colorista II works in floating point color. It uses the GPU mode to accelerate playback AND final rendering of results. This feature greatly speeds the output process. You can alternately use the CPU mode to render identical results with Colorista; the output time will be longer.
There are two Render Using modes: