I’ll share my thinking as I move through the shot matching process and in the next Insight, we’ll take a look at FCP X’s color match tool and how best to use it. Why? Automated features (in any software) will always fail us, eventuallyīut in this Insight, we’ll explore all the tools available to us. When you balance color automatically, Final Cut Pro samples the darkest and lightest areas of the image’s luma channel and adjusts the shadows and highlights in the image to neutralize any color casts. Of course, we’ll tackle how to use the automated Shot Match feature in Final Cut Pro X – but it’s a mistake to solely rely on that tool. In this Insight, we’re going to focus on the built-in toolset of Final Cut Pro X… which is the fundamental rule for this Desert Island Challenge. What tools are available to help us Match Shots in Final Cut Pro X? In colorist parlance, when we match shots together we may be making broad Primary Corrections or much more isolated and targeted Secondary Corrections… or a mix of both.īut as we did in the first three parts of this series we first have to ‘firm up’ the individual shots and fix their overall problems before we can decide what mix of Primary and Secondary tools we need to get our shots to match each other. Shot Matching is about both ‘overall fixes’ and ‘targeted fixes’ Once we’ve gone ahead and fixed the ‘big problems’ (bad color temperature, improper exposure, etc) we then have to get our shots to match each other. Remember… Primary Corrections are about fixing overall image problems We’ve taken that understanding to help us understand how to attack our Primary Corrections. In this Desert Island Challenge, we’ve taken an in-depth look at the image processing pipeline of Final Cut Pro X. In this tutorial, you’ll get the low-down of the basic workflow of color correction in Final Cut Pro. For more details and methods, see Add color correction effects in Final Cut Pro for Mac. The Desert Island Final Cut Pro X Color Correction Challenge: Part 4 Click the pop-up menu at the top of the Color inspector, then do one of the following: Add a new instance of the Color Board effect: Choose Color Board from the Add Correction section at the bottom of the menu. How to Match Shots in Final Cut Pro X: The Tools Tutorials / FCPX Desert Island Challenge / How to Match Shots in Final Cut Pro X Series
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