Using the Three-Way Color Corrector in Final Cut Pro 5

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This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip, I am going to finish up talking about color correction. Now your hue is the overall hue of the picture. You notice now that it is on a particular color which it already is. If you slide it, you will notice that it will shift color. Okay, it is now shifting color to purple, then to blue and then you got green and yellow. This is a great way to get some good green stylized effect. Now I have this nice grungy yellow look to it which is pretty so real looking so you can do a lot of nice things and if you wanted to just reset that back to the original color, you can just click the white button. The magic color white button. Now below that you have your whites, mids and blacks. This isn't so much a color picker as it is just a level meter so I can raise my whites which will make it brighter. I can lower it and make it lower. Notice here there is this little dash in the middle and that is your default back to zero there. Then you have your mids, it's just changing the aluminum for your mids, mid tones and then your blacks, mids for your blacks. Now you can mess with those in accordance with your colors. If something is too bright and if you do have a red that is too bright, you can pull that down, you can pull a mid down on that to kind of soften it. Then you have your overall saturation here at the bottom. If you pull that down to the left, you basically go black and white. You get rid of all the different colors and just leave it with black and white. Then further higher you drag it, the more vibrant those colors get to where again could look pretty surreal. Now to the right of that, you have a few different options here. You've got these auto demands which will read and automatically adjusts themselves to the readings. So like you have auto white level. If you click that, okay, it read Final Cut Pro read your image was a little bit too bright so it took the whites down. To watch this again and if you click this, it made it a little bit less bright. You have your auto contrast. Seems like contrast is good for right now. That's cool, yeah.. The contrast will automatically change your white and your black at the same time. That is why the arrows are both white and black arrow. The black levels are fine which is why the don't change.

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