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Apple Final Cut Pro 6 User Manual

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Part III

Color Correction and Video Quality Control

To open the Frame Viewer tab:

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Choose Tools > Frame Viewer (or press Option-7).

You can customize the contents of the Frame Viewer tab using the following controls:

 Frame Viewer pop-up menus: Two pop-up menus near the bottom control which two

frames are displayed in the Frame Viewer.

 None: This option is available only in the Frame Viewer pop-up menu on the right.

If you don’t want to use the split-screen feature in the Frame Viewer, choose this
option. When the None option is chosen, only the frame corresponding to the
green frame boundary indicators is displayed.

 2nd Edit Back: Displays the frame of the Out point two edits back.
 Previous Edit: Displays the frame of the Out point one edit back.
 Current Frame: Displays the frame corresponding to the position of the playhead in

the Timeline.

 Current w/o Filters: Displays the same frame as the Current Frame option, without

filters applied to the clip. If you have several layers composited together,
composite modes are still calculated. However, all filters are disabled on all clips.

Frame boundary
indicators

Split-screen buttons

Frame boundary

indicator

The Frame Viewer

appears as a tab in the

Tool Bench window.

Indicates the timecode of
the frame chosen in the
Frame Viewer pop-up
menu below.

Frame boundary

indicator

Frame Viewer
pop-up menu

Frame Viewer

pop-up menu