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657Final Cut Pro User Guide
4. Click the View pop-up menu at the top of the Color inspector and choose a display option:
• All Wheels: Displays all four color wheels at once.
The Global color wheel adjusts the whole clip image; the other color wheels adjust
only the shadows, midtones, or highlights.
• Single Wheels: Displays one large color wheel at a time. Click a button at the top of
the Color inspector to select the wheel to display.
5. To change a clip’s brightness, color, or saturation, adjust the controls for a color wheel,
or enter values in the value sliders below.
• Adjust the brightness: Drag the Brightness slider on the right side of a wheel.
• Adjust the color value: Drag the color control in the center of a wheel.
You can also move the color control up, down, left, or right by pressing the Up Arrow,
Down Arrow, Left Arrow, or Right Arrow key.
• Adjust the saturation: Drag the Saturation slider on the left side of a wheel.
To make fine adjustments, hold down the Option key as you drag a control.
6. Use the controls at the bottom of the Color inspector to adjust any of the following:
• Temperature: Adjust the color temperature, in degrees kelvin, so that the image
looks as natural as possible. Color temperature describes the color value of light
when the image was shot (not the light’s heat value). Drag the slider to the left to
increase blue tones, or to the right to increase yellow-red tones. For example, if the
image was shot under tungsten conditions, set the value between 2500 and 2900
degrees kelvin to white-balance it.
• Tint: Fine-tune the white-balance adjustment by neutralizing a remaining green or
magenta tint. Drag the Tint slider to the left to add a green tint to the image, or to
the right to add a magenta tint.
• Hue: Use the Hue control or value slider to set a value from 0° to 360°, effectively
rotating all hues in the image around the perimeter of the color wheel. A value of 0°
represents the original image.
• Mix: Set the amount of the original image to be blended with the color-corrected image.
To reset the values for a color wheel or a value slider, click its Reset button
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