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27 Color Correction
Final Cut Pro includes powerful color correction features
that let you analyze clips in your project and perform
color correction on them.
This chapter covers the following:
 What Is Color Correction? (p. 545)
 Color Correction Features in Final Cut Pro (p. 551)
 The Color Correction Process (p. 558)
 The Color Corrector and Color Corrector 3-Way Filters (p. 563)
 The Desaturate Highlights and Desaturate Lows Filters (p. 610)
 Using Color for Color Correction (p. 613)
What Is Color Correction?
In any post-production workflow, color correction is generally one of the last steps in
finishing an edited program. Final Cut Pro color correction tools give you precise
control over the look of every clip in your project by letting you adjust the color
balance, black levels, midtone levels, and white levels of individual clips.
Viewing Examples in Color
To better understand how color correction works, you can view full-color screen shots
in the onscreen version of the Final Cut Pro 6 User Manual (to view the onscreen user
manual, choose Help > Final Cut Pro User Manual).