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8. Do one of the following:
• Apply a color correction to the shape area: Click Inside.
• Apply a color correction to everything except the shape area: Click Outside.
You can make corrections to both the inside and outside areas of the mask—each area
effectively has its own complete set of color correction controls. For example, you could
click Inside and enhance the shape’s area, and then click Outside to change everything
else.
As with any other masked clip effect, you can also invert (flop) the masked and
unmasked areas of the shape mask. See
Invert effect masks in Final Cut Pro.
9. To correct color in the area isolated by the mask, adjust the controls of the color
correction effect in the Color inspector.
For more information about the manual color correction effects, see Intro to color
correction effects in Final Cut Pro.
10. To add additional shape masks to the correction, repeat steps 5 and 6 above.
Another default shape appears in the viewer, and the original shape is dimmed. You can
select and continue configuring the original shape by clicking its center.
For information about how masks can interact, see Combine multiple effect masks in
Final Cut Pro.
Add shape masks to a color mask in Final Cut Pro
Often when you create a color mask, more areas of the video are affected by it than you
would like. For example, there might be a gray car on the right side of the screen that
you want to color correct, and a gray car on the left that you don’t want to change. In this
situation, you can add one or more shape masks to restrict the color mask to the areas
defined by the shape masks.
You can set masks to interact in different ways using mask blend modes. For example, you
can add mask shapes together to create a combined mask, subtract a mask shape from
other masks, and intersect masks. For a complete description of ways masks can interact,
see
Combine multiple effect masks in Final Cut Pro.
There are many ways to use multiple masks in a color correction. The example below shows
how you might use a shape mask to isolate an area of a color mask: the dark gray body of
one car in a line of four cars of similar color.