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In this module, we'll take a brief look at color correcting and the reason why I saw we'll take a brief look at it is because you typically won't do a whole lot of color correcting from within Final Cut Pro and one of the reasons why that is is because there's a separate application in the Studio suite of products called Color that is really built for professional-grade color correcting and editing, which can be just a subject of an entire other tutorial from VTC and might be very soon. So for example, before I even show you how to use the color filter, you can take a sequence, for example, and then use the file menu to send it out to color for very professional and really refined color editing. Now, that doesn't mean that the tools that are within Final Cut Pro aren't powerful, because they are, but you essentially have just a few things to choose from. So one of your finishing touches will be typically to do your color correction, even if it's just within Final Cut Pro and you don't send it out to Color and your color correction filters are listed in their own category here and the one I want to bring to your attention is the color corrector three-way. So you can bring this to a clip or multiple clips, of course, using the techniques we looked at earlier and then it will add another tab to a clip just like this. We've got this one pulled up in the viewer and we're able to preview it in real time. We can also use the frame viewer to look at a before and after kind of a take on our color correction that we're doing. So there's the tool bench. We can use the current frame and the current frame without filters technique to look at the before and after here. So once again, we'll set the play head there and we'll choose a better frame here and we'll look at what might happen if we adjust some of these color correction parameters. Now, we're not going to see a huge difference here unless I really start to crank some of these values, which I guess I will for demonstration purposes, but probably the most important thing that I can point out about this color corrector three-way tool that you use is the whites here. And you can do some after-the-fact white balancing, which can improve the look of a shot considerably by just a very simple technique here, and that is to select the auto-balance color for your whites. You're telling what, you're telling Final Cut what the white should be in a shot. So if you click on that eyedropper tool and then go over to the canvas and say that's going to be the white in a shot or that is going to be the white in a shot, then you can affect the overall look. So we kind of cool the picture down by choosing that value as white there. Kind of gives a little bit of a bluish type of wash to the shot and you can even verify that by looking at the this color wheel and the color scope here. It kind of shifted the white toward the blue range just a little tiny bit. And remember, if we want to look at this before and after, we can look at it with and without the filters and see the difference. Now, in this difference in this particular shot, it's hard to tell unless you swap these things because the picture doesn't have a lot of white over here. It has more white on the right-hand side of the shot. So again, you can, it does let you however see the before and after look of the shot. Now, if you really want to blow this out, you can adjust some of the slider values here if you want to bring out details that might have been underexposed and overexposed, you can do so with the mids and adjust. So if you really wanted to make like a bright, hot, sunny day, you might want to bring your mids up a little bit. If you want to de-saturate your mids, you slide it to the left. But again, now you can see a much more dramatic effect in your tool bench here in your frame viewer of what it would be before and after for a current shot. So that's with the filters and obviously that's going to make a huge difference in the overall look. So what if we make some adjustments here and we want to kind of hit the reset button? Well, there's a couple of ways to do that. One is that this little dot here is the reset button. So if you want to undo that or undo your mid corrections here, you can do so or by doing a shift click, you can reset all of your adjustments using that button right there. If you make some adjustments that you like, and this not necessarily will be one of them, and you want to now use that in other places throughout your sequence, all you have to do is click and drag this filter elsewhere in your sequence or you could drag this filter over to your favorites so that it's there and is handy for your use later on in the project. So that's the color corrector. And, in fact, I think I've added the thing twice by dragging the filter to the same shot and indeed, that's what I've done. So how do I fix all of this stuff? Well, again, I can find the filters tab, this we've learned earlier, and delete some of the filters. So delete and delete once again and now I don't have any color correction whatsoever applied to the picture in this one in fact because the director of photography did a good job, it doesn't need a whole lot of color correction.