The most common reason for departing from the look of the original shot is to achieve simple shot-to-shot consistency in the finished program. If a scene in a drama that is supposed to take place at one time is shot over two days, and lighting conditions have changed from one day to the next, you clearly want to adjust all the shots so they appear to be taking place at the same time.

Adjustments for shot-to-shot consistency are relatively straightforward in most cases. You simply need to compare shots in the Composer window and then adjust them to match. If you have already adjusted tonal range and neutralized color well, a small change to relative brightness might be all that is needed.

The Dual Split with Reference option provides a particularly good way of comparing a reference shot with your correction to another shot to confirm that the two match. Small adjustments in relative brightness from one shot to another are also easily made with the Color Match control.