Final Cut Pro X (26) Flashcards
In the Video inspector, to the right of Correction 1, click the Show Correction chevron to open the _____ __________ panel
Color Adjustment panel
Before you dive into a correction, you should know that your eyes will fool you. To supplement your subjective perceptions, color correction has _____ ______ that present an objective representation of the values you are adjusting.
video scopes
In the Viewer, click the Viewer Display options button, or press Command _, and from the pop-up menu, choose Show Video Scopes
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The Video Scopes pane appears to the left of the Viewer. To make more room, Hide the Browser by choosing ______ > Hide Browser, or Control _______ 1
Window Command (Control Command 1)
The three Video Scopes are:
Histogram
Vectorscope
Waveform
When you perform color correction or grading, you should start by adjusting ________
contrast
Color grading is the process of altering and enhancing the color of a motion picture, video image, or still image either electronically, photo-chemically or digitally. The photo-chemical process is also referred to as color ______ and is typically performed at a photographic laboratory.
timing
Contrast may be monitored in the ________
waveform
From the Settings pop-up menu at the top right of the Video Scope pane, choose Waveform. Also choose ___ _____
RGB Parade
The Waveform scope now displays the measurement of pixel __________ within each of the Red, Green, and Blue channels that comprise color video
brightness
Although you are now seeing “colors” in the RGB Parade mode, the Waveform is measuring only the __________ levels of ____ within these three channels.
brightness
gray
The Waveform scope and RGB Parade mode aids in identifying needed adjustments to maximize contrast and any other color cast localized to the brightest or darkest pixels for removal. To start with contrast, you need to reveal the corrections ________ controls in the Inspector pane.
Exposure
The Exposure pane controls only the ________ of the image’s pixels.
luminance
The Exposure pane includes controls to adjust the _________ luminance of each pixel according to four parameters.
grayscale
The Exposure pane includes controls to adjust the grayscale luminance of each pixel according to four parameters:
Global
Shadows
Midtones
Highlights
All the controls (Global, Shadows, Midtones, Highlights), called pucks, overlap the _________ values of other pucks. This results in smooth blending across the image (unless extreme adjustments are set). This means the adjusting of one puck may require the tweaking of another.
grayscale
For example, the Global puck alters the luminance of all pixels in the image. If you need to raise the brightness of a generally dark image, you would drag up the Global puck. But raising the Global control may send the brightest pixels, the highlights, over 100 on the ________ scope.
Waveform
Looking at the Waveform’s RGB Parade, you’ll notice the lowest ______ don’t extend down to 0. The Red and Green are closer than the Blue.
traces
When a black object is onscreen, such as a helicopter, all three channels of the RGB Parade should have pixels down to _ on the Waveform.
0
Adjusting the Exposure controls is not removing the color cast, it’s just making the pixels darker or brighter. That make Exposure controls the best to set ________.
contrast
The puck values are displayed beneath the _____ in the table
pucks
Name the main drop-down menus (9) overall for FCP X
File Edit Trim Mark Clip Modify View Window Help
To remove the blue cast from the darkest pixels, switch to the Color pane or Color Board at the top of the _________ pane
Inspector
The Color Board has the same Global, Shadows, Midtones, and Highlights pucks as in the ________ pane
Exposure
However, these (Color Board) pucks on a a board of color that represents the color spectrum using ________ values in its upper half and ________ values in its lower half.
positive
negative
To subtract blue from the darkest pixels in the image, you drag the _______ puck downward in the blue portion of the board
Shadows
The useful video scope when dealing with color, or chroma, is the ___________, which measures only the color values in an image
Vectorscope
When an image does not have a color cast, the traces typically pass through the center point of the Vectorscope, which represents _____
white
