Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 329)

328 Part IV Logging, Capturing, and Importing
6 Adjust the clip’s target settings using the Vectorscope for reference.
The Vectorscope is on the right and displays the color values of the different areas of
the video frame as a point graph. Each point on the circular graph represents one of
the color bars. The goal is to line up these points with their respective targets.
a Adjust the Hue slider to rotate the points around the center of the graph.
b Adjust the Saturation slider to move the points closer to or farther from the center
of the graph. If this slider is properly adjusted, each point falls within the purple
target boxes.
Adjusting Color on Source Tapes Without Color Bars
If there are no color bars on your source tapes, you can adjust your tapes using the
flesh tones of people in the shot. As long as a person’s skin tones look accurate,
chances are the rest of the colors in that shot will look fine. To help you find the correct
flesh tone, a special marker appears in the vectorscope to the left of the center of the
vectorscope scale. This line indicates the hue of a person’s skin tones.
Regardless of ethnicity, the hues of human flesh tones, when recorded to videotape
and measured on a vectorscope, fall along a fairly narrow range (although the
saturation and brightness vary).