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641Final Cut Pro User Guide
6. In the viewer, click or drag over an area that should be pure white.
The entire clip’s color is adjusted to turn the pixels you selected into white.
Tip: When using the eyedropper, don’t sample an area that’s overexposed, such as a
light source or a shiny highlight. Instead, select a properly exposed area of your picture
that’s white, such as a well-lit white shirtsleeve or white wall.
After you apply a manual white-balance correction, you can copy the correction to other
clips in your program to ensure that related clips have a consistent look. (In contrast, the
more automated Balance Color correction creates a unique color correction for each clip
it’s applied to.) You can copy the white-balance correction to multiple clips at once using
the Paste Attributes command. See
Copy effects between clips in Final Cut Pro.
Match color between clips in Final Cut Pro
Your project likely uses video from a wide variety of sources. The Match Color feature makes
it easy to ensure that all scenes that take place in the same location have the same look.
Match color between clips
1. In the Final Cut Pro timeline, select one or more clips that you want to adjust.
2. Do one of the following:
• Choose Modify > Match Color (or press Option-Command-M).
• Click the Enhancements pop-up menu below the viewer and choose Match Color.