Apple Final Cut Express HD - Manual (Page 845)

Chapter 56 Color Correcting Clips 845
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Hue Matching Controls
The Hue Matching controls work well as a starting point to help you quickly match the
overall color balance of two shots; however, you’ll probably want to further adjust the
end result by hand to achieve the exact effect you’re looking for.
 Select Auto-balance Color button (the eyedropper): Clicking the Select Auto-balance
Color button turns the pointer into an eyedropper when it’s moved into the Video
tab of the Canvas. With the current clip open in the Viewer, open the clip you want to
match it to in the Canvas.
Click the eyedropper in the color of an adjacent clip in your sequence that you’re
trying to match to the current clip. Once selected, the match color is displayed in the
Match Color indicator.
Once you’ve selected a match color, you can click the Auto-balance buttons for the
whites, mids, or blacks, and then click the eyedropper in a color in the current clip
that’s supposed to be the same as the match color. Final Cut Express HD
automatically adjusts the Whites, Mids, or Blacks Balance control in an attempt to
rebalance the clip to match the color you selected with the match color.
 Match Color indicator: Displays the currently selected match color. Whichever color is
displayed by the match color indicator affects how the Whites, Blacks, and Mids Auto-
balance controls make their corrections.
 Reset Match Color button: Resets the Match Color to white, the default behavior of
the Whites color balance control.
Note: With a Match Color selected, the functionality of the balance control is unaffected.
Only the functionality of the Auto-balance control is affected by the Hue Matching controls.
Auto Level controls in the
Color Corrector filter
Match Hue controls in
the Color Corrector filter