In more detail, I have:
- fade from/to black is using the fade handles on the clip in the edit window
- colour correction in the group and clip sections in the colour window
- colour grading in the timeline section in the colour window
I believe the order that the processing is done is:
1) colour of each clip is changed according to the group and clip adjustments in the colour window
2) the adjustments in the edit window are then applied
3) the adjustments from the timeline section in the colour window is then applied
If this is the case then the fades in the edit window (step 2 above) will be applied first, making the clip fade from/to black, which then is given to the timeline colour window adjustments (step 3 above).
In the timeline adjustments where I'm doing my colour grading, I have a 'look' that includes the following nodes:
- node that makes the shadows blue (via lift wheel), and mids and highlights orange (via gamma and gain wheels), followed by
- node that includes a sat vs luminance that desaturates the blacks and whites, but leaves the middle range alone
This should result in something that has desaturated blacks, blue shadows, warmer mids, warmer highlights, and desaturated whites.
If we start with this image:
- Screen Shot 2018-02-19 at 12.39.45 pm.png (6.87 KiB) Viewed 5513 times
and then apply the grade in the timeline section of the colour window we get this:
- Screen Shot 2018-02-19 at 12.42.29 pm.png (9.67 KiB) Viewed 5513 times
which is fine, however, if we fade it in using the handles on the edit page and we put the play head half-way through the fade-in we get this:
- Screen Shot 2018-02-19 at 12.45.10 pm.png (17.84 KiB) Viewed 5513 times
Does that make sense?