Final Cut Pro User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Intro to importing media
- If it’s your first import
- Organize files during import
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- Import from Image Playground
- Import from iMovie for macOS
- Import from iMovie for iOS or iPadOS
- Import from Final Cut Pro for iPad
- Import from Final Cut Camera
- Import from Photos
- Import from Music
- Import from Apple TV
- Import from Motion
- Import from GarageBand and Logic Pro
- Import using workflow extensions
- Record into Final Cut Pro
- Memory cards and cables
- Supported media formats
- Import third-party formats with media extensions
- Adjust ProRes RAW camera settings
- Import REDCODE RAW files
- Import Canon Cinema RAW Light files
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- Intro to effects
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- Intro to transitions
- How transitions are created
- Add transitions and fades
- Quickly add a transition with a keyboard shortcut
- Set the default duration for transitions
- Delete transitions
- Adjust transitions in the timeline
- Adjust transitions in the inspector and viewer
- Merge jump cuts with the Flow transition
- Adjust transitions with multiple images
- Modify transitions in Motion
- Add adjustment clips
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- Add storylines
- Use the precision editor
- Conform frame sizes and rates
- Use XML to transfer projects
- Glossary
- Copyright and trademarks
Intro to balancing color in Final Cut Pro for Mac
Final Cut Pro includes several handy color-balancing features that you can use to quickly and easily improve the look of your video clips.
Automatic color balance
When you balance color automatically, Final Cut Pro samples the darkest and lightest areas of the image’s luma channel and adjusts the shadows and highlights in the image to neutralize any color casts. In addition, Final Cut Pro adjusts the image to maximize contrast, so that the shot occupies the widest available luma range.
The video frame used as the reference frame depends on the position of the playhead and whether the clip has been analyzed for color balance. See Balance a clip’s colors in Final Cut Pro for Mac and Analyze a clip for color in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
Manual white balance
You can set the color balance of a clip by sampling a part of the image that should be pure white. See Manually white-balance clips in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
Match color
You can ensure that multiple clips have the same look. See Match color between clips in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
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