Using Eyedroppers: You’ll Poke Your Eye Out
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 Filed in: Weekly Tip
Inside the Color
Corrector 3-way, you’ll see three eyedroppers in
the upper area. These are useful for fixing color
balance. Think of this as white balancing in post;
we’ve even fixed video shot on the wrong camera
preset.
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.
- Use the Whites eyedropper to click on something that should be white. Don’t go for the whites of someone’s eyes; go with a large area such as a wall.
- Use the Blacks eyedropper to click something that should be black.
- The Mids eyedropper really only works when using a chip chart or something with 50-percent gray.
- If the color
balancing is overcompensated, you may need to
drag back toward the center in the color
wheel.
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.