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Although they are a sponsor, I can honestly say they make the best plugins I've ever used for any video-editing software. The other thing I've been playing with in Final Cut has been more plugins by MotionVFX. After spending the day playing with it, I no longer feel that Final Cut is at a major disadvantage in this area. Although Premiere does have more color grading tools, Final Cut has the most important and standard tools. In the video above, I took a deep dive into color grading in Final Cut. How is this done in Final Cut Pro? What am I missing? Premiere lets you open multiple projects and/or multiple editing sequences simultaneously, and you can drag clips among them all. In many cases, I am editing hours of footage, and moving a two-second clip among four hours of footage by dragging it around a single timeline is a nightmare. NOTE: Here’s an article that describes how to get this User Manual.At the moment, my biggest issue with Final Cut Pro is its inability to work on two or more sequences simultaneously. Here’s the relevant page from Apple’s eBook User Manual. I’m glad these controls are now available, you won’t need them often, but when you do, there’s nothing else in Final Cut that works as well. Hue can also easily create some HIGHLY intriguing color looks that are very hard to achieve any other way. However, this is the one color control in Final Cut that I really, REALLY missed. In today’s digital world, this occurs much less often. This is a very powerful tool where all your colors are just “off.” In the days of video tape, this was a common occurrence. Hue is what us “old-tape-guys” used to call “chroma-phase.” This allows us to rotate all the colors in an image equally and in the same direction. What this means in more practical terms is that if you forgot to white balance a camera, so that the image leans toward blue or gold, moving the Temperature slider will adjust this better than tweaking the color wheels.įor example, tungsten lighting has a color temperature of 3200° K, while daylight is around 5,500° K. A value of 0° represents the original image. Hue: Use the Hue control or value slider to set a value from 0° to 360°, effectively rotating all hues in the image around the perimeter of the color wheel. Drag the Tint slider to the left to add a green tint to the image, or drag it to the right to add a magenta tint. Tint: Fine-tune the white-balance adjustment by neutralizing a remaining green or magenta tint. For example, if the image was shot under tungsten conditions, set the value between 2,500 and 2,900 degrees kelvin to white balance it. Drag the slider to the right for yellow-red tones. Drag the slider to the left for blue tones. Color temperature describes the color value of light when the image was shot (not the light’s heat value). Temperature: Adjust the color temperature, in degrees kelvin, so that the image looks as natural as possible. The Help files for Final Cut Pro X 10.4 state: NOTE: Apple’s Help files describe Mix as a way to: “Set the amount of the original image to be blended with the color- corrected image.” Most of the time – in fact, in my personal experience, all the time – you’ll want this set to 100%, which means that 100% of the color change is applied to the clip. However, by decreasing this percentage, you can decrease the amount of the color correction applied to a clip. The Mix control determines what percentage of a color correction setting is applied to a clip. This Mix setting is available for the Color Wheels, Curves, and Hue/Sat Curves, but not the Color Board. NOTE: The screen shot above is a composite created in Photoshop, we can’t actually move the numeric controls up next to the color wheel. Brightness actually refers to the luminance setting of a clip. Modifying these settings numerically, you can alter the color of a clip the same as if you were dragging an interface control within a specific color wheel. This allows you to enter precise values – say to match shots between projects – without dragging a slider. The four groups of settings – Master, Shadows, Midtones, and Highlights – display in numbers the settings of each of the color wheels above it. NOTE: As with all controls, the small “hooky-arrow” on the right is the reset control to return all settings to their default. Numeric representations of the four color wheels.These controls fall into three categories: I call these the “Temperature Controls.” If we fully expand the settings, they look like this: With the release of Final Cut Pro X v10.4, a new series of controls now appears at the bottom of the Color Wheels.