Why no match color control?

I'm a Color newbie. I use match color/hue a lot in FCP and just 'expected' it to be in Color-I'm sure there's a good reason for its omission.
I guess it could be argued that its a cheat, but then so is auto everything on a dSLR
Point is, it gets you in the ball park. You can choose to use it or ignore it. Why isn't it included?

Pataques wrote:
There are some odd ideas appearing in this thread.
Remember, the poster was asking about the AutoMatch feature in Color. I'm guessing you don't find it too useful either?
Firstly, a color match feature is definitely missing in Color. An easy, fluid, efficient function in both AVID and FCP's 3 way corrector, it just makes for extra, needless work in Color. Obviously it's not going to do all the work, but it's a very useful basis.
It's interesting. The pros I know who find the color match function useful are the same ones who find Avid's "Apply to entire reel" function useful. I've never found either useful. I think it depends on the type of projects you tend to work on.
On my projects, I'm lucky if I have a half dozen shots that can share a single setting. Apply a setting to a reel? Total waste of time. For me.
I know some colleagues that save much time because they're working on shows with controlled lighting on sets.
So - I think there's room for pros to disagree on the color match function. I think we can all agree it's a great demo and maybe marketing will get the Color team to implement something similar.
The upshot of all this is that the fastest, cleanest and most creative way of grading I know is to do most things in the 3-way filter and only go to Color for fine adjustments and special effects.
Well, I guess it depends on your setup.
With a control surface - no way. Color is far faster. And since I tend to always make fine adjustments, I might as well do the entire thing in Color.
But the original poster in this thread is working with a mouse so...
With a mouse, it's six of one half dozen of the other. Except at best all we can get done in FCP is a primary correction. Color sees only the last 3WCC filter.
- pi

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> I've generated a simple shadow around my page design in
Photoshop (the
shadow
> blends into the background color via a soft gradient).
I've imported a
small
> section of the shadow into Dreamweaver and placed it in
a special table
cell to
> duplicate the affect in Dw.
>
> This is very simple. I'm using web-safe colors (#336699)
both in Ps and
Dw.
> All artwork was created on my Mac Pro running Leopard
(10.5.2).
>
> When I test my design in Firefox it looks perfect. When
I copy the site
folder
> over to Dw on my Windows XP machine and test in IE it
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It
> also looks perfect when I open the design up in Dw on
the Windows machine
(in
> the document window).
>
> HOWEVER ... the colors do NOT match in the Dw document
window on my Mac.
Nor
> do they match when I test the page using Safari on my
Mac.
>
> I'm perplexed. I'm somewhat new to Dw, but I've been
using Ps and Gl for
a
> long time. I think I know how to match colors in the
workflow. I recently
> upgraded my Mac to 10.5.2 and I'm wondering if this is a
bug?
>
> One other thing ... the pull-down menus in the Dw color
selection areas
aren't
> always functional. Sometimes the color picking windows
will close leaving
the
> pull-down menus unresponsive. You have to hit the escape
key to exit. If
you
> are very careful you can get the menus to work using the
middle mouse
button
> (I'm using a wireless Mighty Mouse).
>
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problems
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