Instead, you'll have to add red to the midtones and subtract blue, because it is the combination of red and yellow that creates amber, and it is by subtracting blue from a channel that we achieve yellow. There is, for instance, no easily pinpointed amber hue, a typical shade to add to those warm beauty shots. The color of the frame is separated into three channels, and each channel is separated into highs, mids, and blacks.ĭue to the lack of proper color wheels, achieving typical hues within a channel is a bit more tricky than in Final Cut Pro.
The concept is the same as the color wheel the colors are complimentary and by adding one hue you will be subtracting another.
Now you can begin tweaking your image with basically the same control that you have in Final Cut Pro. The RGB balance filter lacks the pretty interface of Color Corrector or the Three Way Color Corrector tool of Final Cut Pro, but basically does the same thing: it allows you to limit your color adjustment to either the brighter regions, the darker regions, or the mid-range regions of your picture. To achieve more detailed control over color, we'll need to resort to the RGB Balance filter. This is the very reason the color wheels here are not the way we will do color correction we want more control over specific areas of the picture. Understand that these sliders are effecting the luma levels of the entire frame you are not effecting the luma of a specific color channel. You can also adjust color saturation here. These sliders allow you to crush black tones, increase highlights, and modify mids. This is the same interface for the same tool in Final Cut Pro, but primarily what we will be using here are the luma sliders at the bottom of the window. Now move over the Motion tab in your viewer, and click the Visual button next to the Color Corrector filter. As always, make sure the clip you want to work on is selected in your sequence. The first video filter to apply to a clip you wish to color correct is the Color Corrector filter. There is no Three Way Color Corrector in Final Cut Express as there is in Final Cut Pro, but all of the components are there. Here's how to get the most out of your Final Cut Express when you're color correcting. Either way, it's fun to cheat a little and take an editing program that cost you $200 and make it act more like its $1200 equivalent. Cheating in Final Cut Express: Better Color Correctionĭepending on how you look at it, Final Cut Express is either Apple's gift to the poor independent filmmaker or it's a just-enough editor crippled in just the right places to make it unfeasible for any kind of real project.
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