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Apple Final Cut Pro 6 User Manual

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Chapter 12

Using Video Filters

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To reset the dial to its previous setting while adjusting a parameter:

m

Drag the pointer all the way out of the effect parameter.

Color Controls

The color controls give you several ways to select a color value.

 Disclosure triangle: Click to display sliders and number fields corresponding to the

hue, saturation, and brightness of the range of colors available.

 Eyedropper: This tool lets you quickly select a color that’s in an image in the Viewer

or Canvas. Click the eyedropper, then click an image in the Viewer or the Canvas to
pick up that color.

 Hue direction control: If you’re keyframing changes in color, click this control to indicate

the direction on the color wheel Final Cut Pro uses to interpolate the color change.

 Color picker: Click to choose a color using the standard color picker.
 Hue, saturation, and brightness controls (H, S, and B): Hue determines which color is

chosen; saturation determines how vivid the color is. If saturation is 0, the resulting
color is always white. Brightness determines how bright or dark the color is. If
brightness is 0, the resulting color is black; if brightness is 100, the color is the
lightest possible value.

Clip Well

Some filters, such as the Bumpmap filter, contain a clip well that allows you to use
video from any clip in your project as a parameter for the filter.

Hue direction control

Click the disclosure

triangle to display the

hue, saturation, and

brightness controls.

Color picker

Hue, saturation, and

brightness controls

Eyedropper

Clip well