The Monitor Color Management submenu in the wrench Source Monitor provides three different options for showing your source media.
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Learn how color management in the Program Monitor provides flexible control over the appearance of source media.
For maximum flexibility, color management is configured and applied at the Sequence level, so clips aren’t fully color-managed and tone-mapped until they’re edited into a sequence. This is why you can have multiple versions of a program, each in a different sequence with different color settings, all in the same project. This also means that the color management of clips in the Source Monitor must be handled separately, depending on what you need to evaluate while viewing source clips.
Manage source media colors by doing the following:
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Source Monitor provides three different options for how to show your source media. Source Monitor provides three different options for how to show your source media. -
Select one of the following options:
Gang to Active Sequence Color Management: By default, the Source Monitor is set to Gang to Active Sequence Color Management. This enables the Source Monitor to match whatever color management is in use by whichever sequence is showing in the Program Monitor.
Show Wide Gamut Media As Log: If you specifically don’t want to see a color-managed result in the Source Monitor, and you instead want to see how your source media would look on a generic Rec. 709 display, you can set the Source Monitor Color Management submenu to Show Wide Gamut Media As Log. In this mode, all wide gamut media will be presented with a low-contrast log-like appearance that lets you see all of the core values of the media without clipping. In this mode, Display Color Management continues to show both the Source Monitor and Program Monitor correctly according to your computer monitor’s ICC profile. This can be a good mode to use when you’re troubleshooting your source media to evaluate how it looks prior to color management.
Show Source in Extended Dynamic Range: If your computer has an HDR computer display, and the Extended Dynamic Range Monitoring project setting is turned on, then wide gamut clips will appear with all the highlight detail your display is capable of showing as pleasingly bright highlights in an ungraded state using the Show Source in Extended Dynamic Range setting, regardless of the Output Peak Luminance setting of your program’s color management.
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