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684Final Cut Pro User Guide
10. Add additional shape masks as needed to further isolate the area.
11. To correct color in the area isolated by the masks, 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.
Remove a color or shape mask in Final Cut Pro
1. In the Final Cut Pro timeline, select a clip that has a color mask or shape mask you want
to remove.
2. In the Color inspector, click the mask name (so that a yellow box appears around the
mask item), then press Delete.
Wide color gamut and HDR
Intro to wide color gamut and HDR in Final Cut Pro
No image device is capable of capturing and displaying the full spectrum of colors visible
to the human eye. Consequently, image devices record, edit, display, or output a subset
of those colors. This range of reproducible color is known as the device’s color space or
color gamut
. Because Final Cut Pro projects often involve media captured or created from
different sources, and because color gamuts vary from device to device, Final Cut Pro
employs a color-management system to reconcile those color differences. This ensures
that an image looks the same on any output device, regardless of what color space it’s
encoded in or how it was originally created.
Standard-gamut versus wide-gamut color
Traditional computer displays and HDTVs support a limited color space that’s based on a
decades-old industry standard called Rec. 709. Rec. 709 devices (and the video content
created for display on them) have standard-gamut color, the constrained color palette you
see whenever you view a broadcast HDTV show, DVD, or Blu-ray disc.
A more recent generation of displays—including 4K televisions and computer displays,
Apple TV 4K, and newer Mac, iOS, and iPadOS devices—can render a much wider palette
of colors. These wide-gamut color devices display more vivid and lifelike hues (in addition
to all the hues that standard-gamut devices can display). Accordingly, the video industry
has adopted a wide-gamut color standard called Rec. 2020. Although most currently
available wide-gamut devices support only a subset of the colors contained in the full
Rec. 2020 specification, future imaging devices should be able to render more and more
of those hues.