How to Use Object Tracking for Color Correction in Final Cut Pro [v]

[ This is an excerpt from a recent on-line webinar: “Color Tools in Apple Final Cut Pro 10.6” which is available as a download in our store, or as part of our Video Training Library. ]

EXCERPT DESCRIPTION

If you’ve been wondering what the color tools in Final Cut do, or how to make them work better, this session is for you. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to adjust the color in a portion of a video clip using the new object tracking feature in Final Cut Pro.

How to Use Object Tracking for Color Correction in Final Cut Pro

TRT: 5:27 — MPEG-4 HD movie

SESSION DESCRIPTION

It’s been a couple of years since we last looked at color in Final Cut Pro. If you’ve been wondering what the color tools do, or how to make them work better, this session is for you.

Join host, Larry Jordan, as he showcases how to use the color tools in FCP. This session includes:

• Quick color fixes using automatic color enhancement
• How to read & modify the four video scopes
• How to fix gray-scale and color problems
• How to use the Comparison Viewer
• How to use object tracking to fix color problems
• How to keyframe color corrections
• When to apply the Broadcast Safe effect
• How to change picture elements using the Hue/Saturation curves
• How to work with HDR media in an SDR timeline

NOTE: This session won’t cover creating an HDR project.

While color grading is a vast subject, this webinar is a fast way to lift your color skills to the next level.

AUDIENCE LEVEL

This intermediate-level session benefits from knowledge of how FCP works, but we’ll teach you what you need to know about color.