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TurniMovieadjustmentsonoro
When editing a project in iMovie, you can adjust several video attributes, such as
exposure, brightness, and saturation, in the Project Browser. If you import an iMovie
project that has these adjustments into Final Cut Pro, the adjustments are retained and
appear in the Color area of the Video inspector as an iMovie item.
Although you cannot modify the adjustments added in iMovie, you can choose
whether they are applied to the clip or not.
Note: Video adjustments you make to clips in the iMovie Event Browser are not
retained and do not appear in Final Cut Pro.
Turn a clip’s iMovie adjustments on or o
In the Timeline, select a clip with iMovie adjustments applied, and select or deselect m
the iMovie checkbox in the Color area of the Video inspector.
Click here to turn the iMovie
adjustments on or off.
Note: The iMovie adjustments appear only in the Timeline, not in the Event Browser.
For more information about importing iMovie projects, see “Import from iMovie” on
page 38.
Measurevideolevels
Video scopes overview
Broadcast facilities have limits on the maximum values of luma and chroma that
are allowable for broadcast. If a video program exceeds these limits, distortion can
appear in the form of colors bleeding into one another, the whites and blacks of your
program washing out, or the picture signal bleeding into the audio signal and causing
audible distortion. In all these cases, exceeding standard signal levels can result in
unacceptable transmission quality. As you’re color correcting clips in your project, you
can use the Final Cut Pro video scopes to make sure that the luma and chroma levels
of your video stay within the parameters referred to as broadcast-safe, or acceptable
for broadcast.
426 Chapter 13 Color correction