Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 1381)

596 Part III Color Correction and Video Quality Control
Using information from the Video Scopes tab, you can adjust the Whites and Mids
sliders to make the two spikes of the Histogram match more closely, so you get
comparable luma levels. Moving one invariably results in some movement in the other,
but keep making your adjustments until the Histogram for the second shot
approximates the Histogram for the first shot.
8 With this accomplished, focus on the RGB Parade scope. It shows that the second clip
has far more blue and green than the first.
Adding progressively more cyan to the midtones brings the hues of the two shots
closer to one another. As you adjust the Mids control, continue comparing the previous
shot and the current shot as outlined in step 7. Continue to make adjustments until the
shots match as closely as you need them to.
Note: Remember that your goal, in this case, is to balance all the shots in the scene so
that as the sequence plays, no one shot stands out from any of the others.
Second clip First clip