Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1351)

This chapter covers the following:
• The Final Cut Pro Color Correction Filters (p. 1351)
• The Color Corrector Filter (p. 1353)
• The Color Corrector 3-Way Filter (p. 1366)
• The Desaturate Highlights and Desaturate Lows Filters (p. 1381)
• RGB Balance Filter (p. 1382)
Final Cut Pro includes powerful color correction filters that you can use to grade and
adjust your footage.
The Final Cut Pro Color Correction Filters
There are a number of filters you can use to adjust the blacks, whites, and color balance
of your clips:
• Color Corrector: The Color Corrector filter is a basic filter for performing simple color
correction. While not as fully featured as the Color Corrector 3-way filter, it’s more likely
to be supported by real-time hardware.
• Color Corrector 3-way: The Color Corrector 3-way filter gives you more precise color
control with separate adjustments to the color balance of the blacks, midtones, and
whites of your image.
• Desaturate Highlights and Desaturate Lows: Sometimes, the application of one of the
color correction filters can result in unwanted color in the highlights and blacks of your
image. These two filters (which are actually the same filter with two different default
settings) let you eliminate these unwanted colors.
• RGB Balance: Allows you to raise or lower the levels of the highlights, midtones, and
blacks of each channel—red, green, and blue—in RGB color space individually.
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