User Guide

Day-to-day workflows and the parts of the Colourlab Ai 4 interface you'll touch most.

In this section

• Users — multiple colorists on one installation, avatars, default user, deleting users safely.
• Projects — the project list, creating and managing projects, project settings.
• References — the References tab, search and sort, anchors, bins and power bins, the Reference Detail PIA readout, and the three ways to import references.
• Clips — the Clips tab, on-device PIA analysis (no credits), search by shot type / time of day / angle, plus the same anchor + bin + Show Detail tooling that References has.
• The Color Tab — overview of the working surface: top bar, left media browser, viewer, right-side grading panels, and the timeline.
• The top bar — every control in the top bar of the Color tab.
• The left panel — the inline References and Clips browsers inside the Color tab.
• The viewer — timecodes, playback, keyboard shortcuts, aspect-ratio toggle, full-screen.
• AI Grading panel — chat with the agent, preview suggested looks, anchor a frame to the conversation.
• Color Grade panel — Match, Match All, the four sliders, the pinned reference, Reset, Auto-reference.
• Properties panel — re-pick the iNode and adjust clip geometry.
• Timeline — editing on the timeline, multi-select, perceptual sort by anchor, shot-type / location / content filtering, Save as Reference and quick-reference workflow.
• Settings — the single home for every adjustment: project, canvas, frame rate, color, database, keyboard shortcuts, PIA Engine, credits, license.
• Export — GPU-accelerated rendering: video (ProRes / H.264), stills (PNG / JPEG / TIFF), or a LUT from the current frame.
• More coming soon — Timelines (multiple per project), Bins, Power Bins.