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• Create native, editable Kolora projects.
• Import supported LumaFusion project packages for grading and round-trip work.
• Home-screen project browser and project previews.
• Automatic saving of edits and grades.
• Rename and duplicate projects.
• Project duplication with an independent edit while reusing source media.
• Named Version History checkpoints.
• Restore a saved version as a new project without overwriting the current project.
• Delete individual saved versions.
• Up to 50 named versions per project.
• Export and share editable Kolora project packages with media.
• Reopen projects on another compatible device.
• Missing-media detection and relinking.
• Undo and Redo across supported editing operations.
• Confirmation and recovery handling for interrupted saves and imports.

A duplicate or saved version is not automatically an independent backup of every original media file.

• Import video, audio, and still images.
• Add media from Photos and Files.
• Photos-linked media workflows.
• Keep media offline when needed.
• Project media bin.
• Reusable imported-media library shared between projects.
• Preview source media before inserting it.
• Set source In and Out points.
• Insert only the selected source range.
• Insert at the playhead, before or after a selected clip, or append.
• Drag media onto a compatible timeline track.
• Search media.
• Sort media.
• Mark media as Favorite or Rejected.
• Add custom keywords.
• Filter by media type, favorite/rejected status, capture date, camera metadata, and color metadata.
• Save searches and filters as reusable collections.
• Find Shots: on-device analysis of source frames for searchable visual labels and matching moments.
• Preview matching moments within a source.
• Media information and compatibility reporting.
• Indicators for media already used in the project.
• Remove unused project-bin references without deleting the original source.

Supported media handling includes H.264, HEVC, supported ProRes variants, common audio formats, and still-image formats such as JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, and WebP. Actual decoding depends on the file and device; recognizing a codec does not guarantee that every variant is playable.

• Five video tracks and five audio tracks, plus title and adjustment-layer support.
• Mix video, photos, graphics, titles, and audio in a project.
• Non-destructive clip trimming.
• Split a selected clip at the playhead.
• Split across timeline layers.
• Move clips within and between compatible tracks.
• Duplicate clips.
• Replace source media.
• Insert and ripple editing.
• Lift deletion that leaves a gap.
• Ripple deletion that closes the affected gap.
• Slip editing.
• Roll editing.
• Slide editing.
• Frame-accurate positioning and trimming.
• Snapping to clip boundaries and the playhead.
• Link and unlink compatible clips.
• Detach audio for independent audio/video trimming.
• J- and L-cut workflows using detached audio.
• Track locking.
• Sync Lock.
• Video-track visibility controls.
• Audio mute and solo controls.
• Multi-select clips across tracks.
• Select All and Clear Selection.
• Move selected groups while retaining their relative timing.
• Align a selection’s start to the playhead.
• Nudge selections one frame earlier or later.
• Batch mute, unmute, gain changes, and deletion.
• Collision and locked-track protection.
• Timeline markers with add, delete, previous, and next navigation.
• Export In/Out markers.
• Timeline zoom and fit controls.
• Frame stepping and clip-boundary navigation.
• Timeline filmstrips and audio waveforms.
• Adjustable track presentation and hiding unused tracks.

Attach to Shot

• Attach a supported clip to a video shot on another track.
• Preserve the attached clip’s timing offset when the parent shot moves through supported editing operations.
• Detach the relationship when independent timing is needed.

Kolora Variations

• Keep alternative media takes at one timeline position.
• Keep alternative title versions.
• Keep alternative looks and FX treatments.
• Preview alternatives without immediately changing the project.
• Swipe through variations in the viewer.
• Activate an option with Use This.
• Up to 20 choices per variation set.
• Only the active choice is used for normal playback and export.

Take variations currently have restrictions around retimed clips, transitions, and available source duration.

• Add multiple adjustment layers.
• Duplicate an adjustment layer.
• Trim, move, and split adjustment clips.
• Apply grading across underlying material.
• Add a five-second adjustment at the playhead.
• Match an adjustment’s length to the clip beneath the playhead.
• Span the full timeline.
• Reuse an existing compatible adjustment track when there is room.
• Create another track when an overlap requires it.
• Slim adjustment and title clip bars with comfortable touch targets.

• Fit or Fill the project frame.
• Horizontal and vertical position.
• Overall scale.
• Independent horizontal and vertical sizing.
• Rotation.
• Horizontal flip.
• Opacity.
• Crop left, right, top, and bottom.
• Crop edge softness.
• Rounded crop corners.
• Invert the crop.
• Interactive viewer handles for supported framing operations.
• Animated framing with keyframes.
• Project-frame guides.
• Anamorphic stretch presets: 1.33×, 1.5×, 1.6×, 1.8×, and 2×.

Speed and direction

• Speed adjustment from 0.1× to 8×.
• Quick speed presets.
• Audio pitch preservation for supported forward-speed changes.
• Frame Repeat slow motion.
• Optical Flow slow motion on supported devices.
• Reverse video.
• Freeze Frame.
• Restore motion after freezing.
• Ripple retiming on the selected track or across tracks.
• Apply/Cancel handling for speed changes.

Reverse is silent. Optical Flow requires a supported iPad with iPadOS 26 or later; prepared Optical Flow and reverse renders have resolution and temporary-size limits.

Primary adjustments

• Exposure.
• Contrast.
• Black level.
• Saturation.
• Vibrance.
• Temperature.
• Tint.
• White-balance eyedropper.
• Lift, Gamma, and Gain.
• Three color wheels for shadows, midtones, and highlights.
• Hue and color amount for each wheel.
• Slider and visual-wheel control layouts.
• Individual-control and section resets.

Curves

• Master tone curve.
• Combined RGB curve.
• Separate Red, Green, and Blue curves.
• Hue versus Hue.
• Hue versus Saturation.
• Hue versus Luma.
• Saturation versus Saturation.
• Luma versus Saturation.

The curve editor uses fixed input positions with adjustable output values.

Selective color stack

• Organized stages for Input CST, Balance, Subject/Skin, Background, Look, and Output.
• Enable or bypass correction stages.
• Reorder supported correction stages.
• Local exposure and saturation adjustments.
• Hue qualifiers with range and softness.
• Elliptical and rectangular masks.
• Mask position, size, feathering, and inversion.
• Forward and backward mask tracking.
• Manual tracking corrections.
• Prepared Smart Person Masks.
• Inverted person selections for background adjustments.

Grading workflow

• Live viewer feedback.
• Before/After comparison.
• Grade keyframes for supported adjustments.
• Keyframed LUT strength.
• Copy and paste grades.
• Apply an input CST to multiple clips.
• Grade individual clips or adjustment layers.
• Shot Match using reference and target frames.
• Adjustable Shot Match strength.
• Apply Match with Undo support.

Input color-space transforms

• Rec.709 / no input CST.
• Apple Log / BT.2020.
• ARRI LogC4 / ARRI Wide Gamut 4.
• ARRI LogC3 EI800 / ARRI Wide Gamut 3.
• Sony S-Log3 / S-Gamut3.Cine.
• Sony S-Log3 / S-Gamut3.
• Panasonic V-Log / V-Gamut.
• Canon Log 2 / Cinema Gamut.
• Canon Log 3 / Cinema Gamut.
• RED Log3G10 / REDWideGamutRGB.
• Blackmagic Film Gen 5 / Wide Gamut Gen 5.

These are color transforms—not a claim of native decoding for every camera’s RAW format.

Output color options

• Rec.709 8-bit SDR.
• Rec.709 10-bit SDR.
• Rec.2020 HLG 10-bit.
• Rec.2020 PQ / HDR10.
• P3-D65 HLG 10-bit.
• Smooth Highlights and legacy SDR rendering options.

LUTs and Grade Gallery

• Import creative .cube LUTs.
• Manage a creative LUT library.
• Adjust LUT intensity.
• Save reusable grades.
• Import .koloragrade files.
• Optional grade preview images.
• Choose whether applying a saved grade includes its input CST.
• Apply and remove a saved grade through its toggle behavior.
• Delete gallery items without removing grades already applied to projects.
• Reuse saved grades between projects.

• Reusable recipes combining color grading and supported finishing effects.
• Live preview while adjusting the recipe.
• Apply to keep the result.
• Cancel to restore the previous applied look.
• Color Style control.
• Texture control.
• Diffusion control.
• Optional optical components.
• Optional SDR normalization against a saved source profile.
• Save customized recipes to the gallery.
• Starter looks: Clean Editorial, Warm Memory, Cool Night, Soft Portrait, and Silver Story.

Living Looks exclude shot-specific material such as tracking, painted masks, selective stages, and subject-dependent effects. Normalization is SDR-only.

• Waveform.
• RGB Parade.
• Vectorscope.
• Histogram.
• Single-, dual-, and quad-scope layouts.
• Luma, RGB, and Combined display options where applicable.
• SDR signal-percentage scales.
• PQ nits and HLG-relative scales.
• Compact, expanded, and larger scope presentations.
• Scopes that remain available while changing grading sections.
• Analysis of the displayed composite.

• Smart Cutout — Person/Object selection, tap and brush guidance, Select/Exclude tools, seed and correction frames, selection overlay, edge softness, foreground or background removal, and prepared masks.
• Subject Scenes — Color World, Poster, Spotlight, Behind the Subject text, and Background Swap through lower tracks. Includes subject/background color shaping, gradients, outlines, and editable typography.
• Motion Echo — Trails based on the subject’s earlier prepared silhouettes; adjustable echo count, spacing, fade, opacity, colors, and outline treatment. Includes Electric Cyan and Neon Outline looks.
• Color Director — Sample a color from the graded viewer, change its hue, depth, saturation, range, softness, and strength; protect skin-like hues and use prepared subject selections.
• Light Paint — Paint local brightening, darkening, warming, cooling, tint, and saturation. Three independently adjustable painted regions, erase, softness, highlight protection, and Show/Hide Area.
• Optical Lab — Prism/Glass, Split Diopter Look, Streak/Star Filter, Tilt Focus, and Focus Pull A→B, with viewer placement handles and mode-specific controls.
• Film Finish — Independently adjustable grain, halation, glow, gate weave, exposure flicker, dust, and scratches, plus coordinated presets.
• Film Grain — Standalone adjustable analog grain, including Fine 35mm, Classic 16mm, and Coarse 8mm treatments.
• Bloom / Glow — Soft highlight glow.
• Halation — Colored highlight-edge diffusion.
• Lens Flare — Positionable light source, streaks, ghosts, tint, intensity, and animated drift.
• Light Leak — Adjustable tinted light washes across a clip, with placement, spread, and movement.
• Lens Blur / Background Defocus — Preserve the selected subject while softening the background; bokeh shape, blur strength, size, highlights, and edge protection.
• Vignette — Adjustable peripheral shading, center, extent, and softness.
• Blur — Adjustable image softening.
• Sharpen — Detail enhancement with adjustable sharpening controls.
• Chromatic Aberration — Adjustable color-channel separation.
• Chroma Key — Color-based background keying.
• Luma Key — Brightness-based keying.
• Tracked Blur / Mosaic — Track and obscure a region using blur or mosaic, with adjustable region geometry, feathering, and tracking corrections.
• Transform Motion Blur — Motion blur derived from authored framing movement.
• Cutout Outline / Shadow — Outline and shadow treatments using an existing cutout or keyed alpha.

FX workflow

• Search effects.
• Favorite effects.
• Stack and reorder applied effects.
• Enable or bypass an effect without losing its settings.
• Swipe to remove.
• Built-in presets.
• Reset controls.
• Keyframes on supported parameters.
• Viewer placement or painting tools where applicable.
• Undo/Redo.

Color Director preset library

• Skin: Gentle Warmth, Reduce Redness, Soften Orange, Gentle Lift, Richer Depth.
• Nature: Autumn Foliage, Muted Greens, Rich Blues, Fresh Greens, Clear Blue Sky, Teal Water.
• Objects & Products: Product Color, Warm Wood, Rich Reds, Golden Accents, Muted Fabric.

Important distinctions: Light Paint is local color/light shaping, not reconstructed 3D lighting. Motion Echo uses earlier masks rather than full photographic copies. Transform Motion Blur is not optical-flow analysis of movement inside the footage. Tracked obscuring should be reviewed before publishing sensitive footage.

• Essentials: Cross Dissolve, Dip to Black, Dip to White.
• Wipes: Wipe, Soft Wipe, Clock Wipe, Soft Clock Wipe, Bar Swipe.
• Slides & Pushes: Push, Slide, Cross Zoom.
• Shapes: Inset, Iris, Curtain Reveal, Vertical Shutter, Blink, Wedge Reveal.
• Flips & Perspective: Flip, Cube, Perspective Turn.
• Circle Patterns: Large Circles, Medium Circles, Spinning Circles, Small Circles, Circle Wave, Micro Circles, Micro Circle Wave.
• Motion: Fall, Drop In, Earthquake, Clothesline, Spin, Grow, Rotate, Doorway, Shrink, Black Hole, Wave Distortion.
• Blur: Blur Dissolve, Blur Cut, Directional Blur, Motion Blur Slide, Spin Zoom, Zoom Blur.
• Light & Color: Flash, Light Burst, Bloom, Long Flash, Monochrome, Invert Shock.
• Stretch: Long Stretch, Short Stretch.
• Quick Zoom: Quick Zoom In, Quick Zoom Out, Quick Zoom In Blur, Quick Zoom Out Blur.
• Line Patterns: Line Sweep, Center Lines, Staggered Lines, Alternating Lines, Wave Lines, Diagonal Lines, Scattered Lines.
• Anchored Motion: Anchor Slide, Anchor Swing, Anchor Tumble.
• Circular Wipes: Circular Sweep, Soft Circular Sweep, Feathered Circular Sweep, Circle Grow, Soft Circle Grow, Feathered Circle Grow, Ring Reveal.
• Stylized: Pixel Dissolve, Luma Fade, Whip Pan, Light Leak, Film Burn, Digital Glitch.

Also included:

• Categorized, searchable browser.
• Animated transition previews.
• Drag onto a cut or exposed clip edge.
• Adjustable duration in seconds or frames.
• Direction controls where applicable.
• Source-handle validation and overlap handling.

• Standalone title clips.
• Clean titles and lower thirds.
• Multiline text.
• Installed-device font browser.
• Text size and color.
• Left, center, and right alignment.
• Character tracking.
• Black outline.
• Soft shadow.
• Background opacity.
• Text-box dimensions.
• Position, scale, rotation, and opacity.
• Drag to position and pinch to resize in the viewer.
• Title duplication and deletion.
• Saved reusable title styles.
• Clip Animation and Project Timeline views.
• Animation preview and video visibility controls.

Animation

• Entrance and exit animations.
• Fade, slide, and scale behaviors.
• Adjustable timing and easing.
• Manual motion keyframes.
• Linear, Smooth, Ease In, Ease Out, and Hold interpolation.
• Placement presets.
• Rise, drop, slide, fly, drift, push, pull, pop, spin, and turn presets.
• Bounce, pulse, shake, swing, spring, heartbeat, float, pendulum, wobble, jitter, spiral, hop, and orbit treatments.
• Rolling credits and horizontal crawls.
• Typewriter and Word-by-Word reveals.
• Fade, blur, and directional text reveals.
• Reveal delay and duration.
• Optional blinking cursor.

Subject Scenes shares the typography controls and touch placement, but not every standalone title animation or reveal.

• Blank and transparent graphics clips.
• Multiple editable elements within one graphics clip.
• Up to 32 elements per clip.
• Text elements.
• Basic shapes: circle, oval, square, rectangle, rounded rectangle, triangle, diamond, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, star, arrow, and heart.
• Built-in symbolic graphics.
• 238 bundled Bold Graphics assets across people, vehicles, animals, numbers, titles, arrows, decorative, food, and media categories.
• Fill color and opacity.
• Outline color and width.
• Shape dimensions and corner styling where applicable.
• Element position, rotation, and opacity.
• Element ordering, duplication, and removal.
• Shared text styling controls.
• Drag and pinch selected graphics in the viewer.
• Regular and expanded Graphics editing.
• Double-tap access to Graphics controls.
• Undo/Redo for supported graphic edits.

• On-device speech transcription on supported devices and languages.
• Choose project, track, or individual clip audio as the transcription source.
• Spoken-language selection.
• Transcript, Style, and Transcribe pages.
• Add captions manually.
• Edit cue text.
• Edit start and end times.
• Preview individual cues.
• Delete cues.
• Frame-aligned caption timing when saved.
• Installed-font selection.
• Font size, text color, and alignment.
• Background and background-opacity controls.
• Outline and shadow.
• Horizontal and vertical positioning.
• Live style sample.
• Show/hide captions in the video.
• Save/discard draft handling.
• Export captions as an SRT file.
• Render saved captions into video exports.

Clip and track controls

• Multitrack audio mixing.
• Embedded video audio and separate audio clips.
• Clip gain.
• Pan/balance.
• Mute and solo controls.
• Track gain and pan.
• Fade in and fade out.
• Adjustable fade curves.
• Audio crossfades.
• Volume-envelope keyframes.
• Detach audio.
• Audio waveforms.
• Roles: Dialogue, Music, Effects, Ambience, and Other.
• Role-based track coloring.

Audio processing

• High-pass filter.
• Three-band EQ: bass, adjustable-frequency midrange, and treble.
• Compressor with threshold, ratio, attack, release, and makeup gain.
• Master gain and mute.
• Master limiter with ceiling and release controls.
• Stereo level meters.
• Momentary, short-term, and integrated LUFS measurement.
• True-peak readout.
• Gain-reduction display.
• Full-timeline loudness analysis.
• Normalization using a loudness target and peak ceiling.

Source channels and stems

• Individual source-channel gain, pan, mute, and solo.
• Stereo-pair linking.
• Support for up to 16 separately routed mono source streams.
• Export audio stems by role.
• Timeline-aligned 48 kHz stereo, 24-bit PCM WAV stems.

Stem export includes relevant clip and track processing but excludes master processing. The limiter is sample-peak based; the true-peak meter does not make it a guaranteed true-peak limiter.

• Keyframes for supported title, framing, grading, audio, and FX controls.
• Add and delete individual keyframes.
• Clear supported keyframe sets.
• Previous/next keyframe navigation.
• Dedicated animation timelines.
• Copy/paste color-grade attributes.
• Copy/paste framing attributes.
• Copy/paste basic audio attributes.
• Copy/paste title, grade, framing, and supported FX keyframes.
• Transfer compatible motion between titles, video, photos, and graphics.
• Keep original motion timing or fit it to the destination duration where supported.

Not every setting is animatable: CST selection, curve shapes, LUT choice, and certain other controls remain clip-wide.

• Regular editing workspace.
• Expanded editors.
• Full-screen viewer.
• Playback controls in full-screen viewing.
• Undo/Redo in supported expanded editors.
• Direct manipulation of titles, graphics, and supported effect controls.
• Resizable workspace panels.
• Balanced, Larger Viewer, Larger Timeline, and Larger Controls layouts.
• Expanded timeline view.
• Viewer zoom and framing guides.
• Persistent grading scopes.
• Contextual Help sections.
• Touch-friendly control targets.
• Compact Kolora keyboard with an option to use the Apple keyboard.
• Keyboard Undo/Redo shortcuts.

• Auto, Full, Half, and Quarter preview-quality options.
• Adaptive playback preparation.
• Background preparation of eligible media.
• Playback proxies.
• Color-aware preview preparation.
• Cached timeline thumbnails and filmstrips.
• Reused source-level waveform data.
• Prioritized preparation of nearby and visible still images.
• Memory-bounded media preparation.
• Playback-cache retention choices: 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, or Until Cleared.
• Last-used retention tracking.
• Automatic idle cleanup.
• Low-storage and cache-budget safeguards.
• Manual playback-cache clearing.
• Storage usage reporting.
• Management of projects, imported media, exports, and temporary files.
• Shared-media usage warnings before deletion.
• Shared-storage optimization to consolidate duplicate media.
• Local trash management.

Cache cleanup targets rebuildable previews and proxies—not original footage, project edits, or saved cutout masks. “Until Cleared” still allows emergency budget or low-storage cleanup.

Video codecs

• H.264.
• HEVC/H.265.
• ProRes 422 Proxy.
• ProRes 422 LT.
• ProRes 422.
• ProRes 422 HQ.

Resolution options

• Match project.
• 8K UHD.
• 6K.
• 5K.
• DCI 4K.
• UHD 4K.
• 1440p QHD.
• DCI 2K.
• 1080p Full HD.
• 720p HD.
• 480p SD.
• Portrait HD.
• Square HD.

Export controls

• Match project frame rate.
• Explicit 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94, and 60 fps choices.
• SDR and supported HDR output.
• 8-bit or 10-bit encoding as supported by the codec.
• Web-friendly, standard, and high-quality bitrate presets.
• 100 Mbps and 150 Mbps presets.
• Custom bitrate controls.
• Average-target and supported constant-bitrate modes.
• Include or omit audio.
• Export the whole timeline or a marked range.
• Progress and cancellation.
• Save to Photos.
• Save to Files or share.
• Editable project-package export.
• Role-based audio stems.
• SRT caption export.

Resolution, codec, HDR, and bitrate combinations depend on the device and encoder. The resolution menu is not a promise that every iPad can export every format at 8K.