Apple Final Cut Express 4 - Manual (Page 703)

Chapter 46 Color Correction 703
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The Final Cut Express Color Correction Filters
There are a number of filters you can use to adjust the blacks, whites, and color balance
of your clips:
 Color Corrector: The Color Corrector filter is the basic filter for performing color
correction.
 RGB Balance: Allows you to raise or lower the levels of the highlights, midtones, and
blacks of each channel—red, green, and blue—in RGB color space individually.
 Desaturate Highlights and Desaturate Lows: Sometimes, the application of the Color
Corrector filter can result in unwanted color in the highlights and blacks of your
image. These two filters (which are actually the same filter with two different default
settings) let you eliminate these unwanted colors.
 Broadcast Safe and RGB Limit: The Broadcast Safe filter gives you a fast method for
dealing with clips that have luma and chroma levels that exceed the broadcast limits
for video. If you want to limit illegal RGB levels, you can use the RGB Limit controls in
the Broadcast Safe filter or you can use the RGB Limit filter.
The main color correction filter in Final Cut Express that you’ll use to perform primary
color correction is the Color Corrector filter.
Using the Color Correction Filters
All the Final Cut Express color correction filters are located in the Color Correction bin,
within the Video Filters bin in the Effects tab of the Browser. They can be applied the
same way as any other filter. For more information, see Chapter 45, “
Using Video Filters ,”
on page 677.
Once applied, color correction filters appear in the Filters tab of a clip that’s opened in
the Viewer, along with any other filters you may have added. In addition, each time you
apply the Color Corrector filter, a Color Corrector tab appears in the Viewer. Additional
tabs are numbered sequentially depending on their arrangement in the Filters tab.
A Color Corrector tab
appears each time you
apply the Color Corrector
filter.