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Color controls – Apple Final Cut Pro 7 User Manual

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To gear down the dial’s movement for a more precise value

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Press the Command key while adjusting the control.

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

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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.

Click the disclosure
triangle to display the
hue, saturation, and
brightness controls.

Hue, saturation, and
brightness controls

Hue direction control

Color picker

Eyedropper

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.

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Using Video Filters