Clip Settings Tab in Final Cut Pro 5

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Hi this is CJ South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip I'm going to show you the clip settings tab inside the log and capture window. Now I will talk to you about the clip settings tab. Why don't you go ahead and play your video, click the play button, and then click video scopes. Now if you notice you got a couple of different settings here, different wave form monitors. To the left here you have the luminance values, which is in the wave form monitor, and to the right the vector scope is for you chroma values, your color values. Now in the left, you notice that I have a lot of these, a lot of this white spiking above the 100 mark, which basically means that it is to bright for broadcast. To the right, though, the color seems decent enough, they are not going anywhere too far out, except for the red there, but other then that it looks too good. You can't change anything; this is just for monitoring. Why don't you go ahead and close that and stop your video. Now if you notice that in the video section right up here, you have the option for hue saturation, brightness, contrast, you have the option for changing the values; it is greyed out though. That is because we are capturing from a mini DVD source, capturing from digital video. When you are capturing from digital video, the capture process is more similar to a file transfer process. So you can't actually change these values on the fly. But, if you are capturing from say a capture card, from an analog device, then you can make the changes to the values here. Now you notice for video and audio, you have check marks that basically are options for whether to capture video or not and same with audio, whether you want to capture audio or not. Just check it to toggle it. Then below that you have the option to toggle stereo or mono capturing. Now this is a stereo setting. When stereo is clicked on, basically you have one input going into two channels. That will be used for—let's say you just have a mic and you are using the on-board camera mic, that is when you want to capture it inside as a stereo pair. Uncheck that and now you have two separate mono tracks. This is useful for when you have two mics hooked up to one camera. Like for example if you have a lavaliere mic on a groom hooked on to your camera, and you also have another lavaliere mic hooked in to your camera on the bride, or if it's a shotgun mic and a lavaliere mic. This way you can keep your channels separate.

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