Colour Temperature View
   

Use the Colour Temperature view to set the colour temperature of a colour device.

 

Access the Colour Temperature View

When a colour device is selected (in the Devices view, the Groups view, or the Scene Table view, for example), access the Colour Temperature view using:

Main drop-down menus: View > Colour Temperature
Main toolbar:
Window tabs:

The Colour Temperature View tab may be available at the side of the Scene Table or Channel Graph view.

 

Adjust the Colour Temperature

Use one of these methods to adjust the colour temperature for the scene:

Palette [details]

Select one of the predefined colour temperature swatches, or create your own colour temperature swatch. Click OK in the Scene Table to apply the change.

Colour Temperature slider [details]

Move the cursor to pick a colour temperature. Click OK in the Scene Table to apply the change.

Mired [details]

Type in the colour’s mired value (microreciprocal degrees) [more details]

K: kelvins [more details]

Type in the colour temperature in kelvins [more details]

Note:

As you adjust a colour temperature, the following linked items all change:

  • position of the cursor;

  • colour temperature mired value;

  • colour temperature K value;

  • Scene Table swatch colour;

  • position of the cursor in the Colour Temperature View. As you select colour temperatures, the Colour view cursor moves to the black body locus (Planckian locus) on the Chromaticity Diagram.

 

 

Palette

Select a swatch in the palette to pick a scene colour temperature (then click OK in the Scene Table)

The palette contains predefined swatches representing colour temperatures and custom colour temperatures.

Predefined swatch colour temperatures

The predefined swatch colour temperatures range from 1700 K to 50 000 K.

You cannot delete or adjust a predefined colour temperature swatch.

To move a colour temperature swatch up or down the palette click the UP or DOWN controls (up and down arrows above the palette).

Custom (user-defined) swatch colour temperatures

You can create custom swatch colour temperatures and save them in the palette.

These custom colour temperatures are saved when you save a workgroup design.

To create a custom swatch colour temperature select a colour temperature on the slider or enter a value in the Mired or K windows, and click the + control above the palette.

To delete a custom swatch colour temperature select a custom swatch colour temperature in the palette, and click the – above the palette.

To move a swatch up or down the palette click the UP or DOWN controls (up and down arrows above the palette).

To rename a custom swatch select the swatch name and click once (or press F2), type the new name, and then press Enter.

 

Slider

Click and drag the cursor to pick a colour temperature. You can also use the mouse wheel, and the cursor keys. Click OK in the Scene Table to apply the change.

The black lines in the slider show the device’s gamut: see Allow non-gamut temps.

 

Mired

Type in the colour's mired value (micro reciprocal degrees). The mired value is given by: M = 100 000 / T , where T is the colour temperature in kelvins.

Note:

  • The SI unit is the reciprocal megakelvin (MK−1), shortened to mirek.

 

K: kelvins

Type in the colour temperature in kelvins.

 

Options

Ignore

If ignore is selected and this scene is recalled, the colour of the lamp will not change. In the Scene Table, a box with a cross will appear on the left of the currently selected scene/channel cell:  .

The Ignore setting in the Colour view is the same as the Ignore setting here.

Note:

  • An asterisk ( * ) displayed on the right of the cell means the level (= intensity) is set to Ignore.

 

Allow non-gamut temps

When editing scenes for a ‘live’ colour device, black lines on the slider will show the colour temperature limits of the device. Click/tick the box to remove the constraint (the limits will be shown by dashed lines), and allow any colour temperature on the slider to be selected (the cursor can be moved anywhere within the slider).

 

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