![]() ![]() You can also apply this colour correction fix to clips and images in the Final Cut Pro X Browser, not just the Timeline!īack to the Inspector and select White Balance form the dropdown menu in the Balance Color controls. The controls will appear in the Video Parameters Tab in the Inspector. You might notice a slight contrast change as well as Final Cut Pro X expands the blacks and whites to their corresponding 0% and 100% levels. This will apply an FCPX generated balance, which does look a lot better than the original, but there is still a cast. Then click on the magic wand and select Balance Color or you could use the shortcut OPT CMD B. Navigate to the bottom left of the canvas where you will see three icons. ![]() You would think that you need to head straight over to the colour tools in the Inspector ( CMD 4) looking for the auto white balance, but you would be wrong. Thankfully you now have a third option right inside FCPX. (It does happen!)īefore the 10.4 update you had two choices how to fix the colours.ġ) Mess about with the Colour Board with an eye on the vectorscope trying to remove the cast.Ģ) Buy a third party colour correction plugin or roundtrip through another NLE or colour grading app. This can happen with fluorescent lighting or even something simple like the cameraman getting the white balance or filter on the camera wrong. Here you can see we have an indoor portrait with a rather nasty colour cast. The good news is that the eyedropper and the Auto White Balance features are back in Final Cut Pro X 10.4, but not where you would expect to find them! Many editors complained that the handy eyedropper that made a 'one click fix' for colour correction had gone. When Final Cut Pro X was released back in June 2011, one of the missing features from FCP7 was the Auto White Balance tool. In this tutorial we will show you how to get rid of unwanted colour casts using the Auto White Balance tool in Final Cut Pro X ![]() In mid-2013 I did a two-Insight series on breaking down Final Cut Pro X’s Color Board.How to Auto White Balance Colours in Final Cut Pro X 10.4 We’ll also look at supplementing the FCPx interface with a super-useful image evaluation tool that has shipped with every Mac for over 20 years! Related Insights This Insight will focus on making our Primary corrections and understanding the Order of Operations I’ll be advocating for working in FCPx.Īt the moment I’m ignoring the Auto-Balance function… but we’ll probably discuss it later in the Challenge. Final Cut Pro X: Primary Color Corrections and Order of Operations In other words: rather than handing you a fish filet, I’m teaching you how to catch a fish and then use a knife to trim it. Once you understand How and Why I approach FCPx the way I do, you’ll be able to do this same thing for ANY color grading app you use. But knowing how I created my workflow? Knowing why I make the recommendations I do? The point of this series is to teach you how I break down toolsets to help me understand how to develop a workflow in the first place!Īnd since each of us has a different workflow, we’ll develop different strategies to solve our unique workflows. The point of this series isn’t to provide the Single Definitive Final Cut Pro X Color Correction workflow. Adopt my thinking, Adapt to your workflow This series will show you how I’d approach it.Īnd it all starts by breaking down the toolset to develop a workflow. I’ll say this up-front: If I had to grade in FCPx and do high-quality work that I can be proud of… I could do it. I’m approaching this Challenge by answering: How do I transfer my DaVinci Resolve and SpeedGrade habits to FCPx, while being restricted to its (more limited) toolset. This is a short series of Insights where I show you how I evaluate Final Cut Pro X’s image processing pipeline to help you make smart decisions about which FCPx tools to use and when.Īs if I were stuck on a desert island, I’ll restrict myself to using ONLY the native filter set in FCPx (at the end of this series I’ll explore the question: If I could only bring 1 color correction plug-in, which would it be?) Here’s the color correction equivalent: If you were stuck on a desert island with only Final Cut Pro X-and no plug-ins-and a project you had to color correct, how would you go about it? Welcome to the Final Cut Pro X Color Correction Desert Island Challenge You know the question: If you were stuck on a desert island and could only bring one book/record/movie, what would it be? Tutorials / FCPX Desert Island Challenge / Final Cut Pro X Color Correction Desert Island Challenge Seriesĭay 6: 25 Insights in 25 Days Holiday Marathon What is a ‘Desert Island Challenge?’ ![]()
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