Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1259)

472 Part II Project Interchange
Hue Matching Controls
The Hue Matching controls work well as a starting point to help you quickly match the
overall color balance of two shots; however, you’ll probably want to further adjust the
end result by hand to achieve the exact effect you’re looking for. The Hue Matching
controls of the Color Corrector and Color Corrector 3-way filters work identically.
 Select Auto-balance Color button (the eyedropper): Clicking the Select Auto-balance
Color button turns the pointer into an eyedropper when it’s moved into the Video
tab of either the Canvas or a Frame Viewer tab in a Tool Bench window. With the
current clip open in the Viewer, open the clip you want to match it to in the Canvas
or in an available Frame Viewer tab.
Click the eyedropper in the color of an adjacent clip in your sequence that you’re
trying to match to the current clip. Once selected, the match color is displayed in the
Match Color indicator.
Once you’ve selected a match color, you can click the auto-balance buttons for the
whites, mids, or blacks, and then click the eyedropper in a color in the current clip
that’s supposed to be the same as the match color. Final Cut Pro automatically
adjusts the Whites, Mids, or Blacks Balance control in an attempt to rebalance the clip
to match the color you selected with the match color.
 Match Color indicator: Displays the currently selected match color. Whichever color is
displayed by the match color indicator affects how the Whites, Blacks, and Mids auto-
Balance controls make their corrections.
 Reset Match Color button: Resets the Match Color to white, the default behavior of
the Whites color balance control.
Note: With a Match Color selected, the functionality of the Whites, Blacks, and Mids
balance controls is unaffected. Only the functionality of the auto-balance controls is
affected by the Hue Matching controls.
Auto Level controls in the
Color Corrector filter
Controls in the
Color Corrector
3-way filter
Match Hue controls in
the Color Corrector filter