User guide

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Creating a color match effect
Fine-tuning your color match effect
You can fine-tune your target clip using the following color correction controls:
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Color maps These controls let you adjust the balance of colors in your
target clip (see “Overview of the color maps” on page 36). Drag the
crosshair within a color map toward a color you want to increase in your
clip, or away from a color you want to decrease. You can also enter values in
the text boxes below each color map. Increasing a color by a certain value
automatically decreases the opposite color by the same value. For example,
if you drag the crosshair towards red, you also decrease cyan by the same
amount, as shown in the following diagram:
You can use the global color map to affect your clip from the lightest white to
the darkest black. Alternately, you can use one of the following color maps to
affect only specific tonal ranges:
$ Shadows Affects the darkest areas of your clip.
$ Midtones Affects the areas with tones between the darkest and lightest
areas of your clip.
$ Highlights Affects the lightest areas of your clip.
¥Tip To return a color map to default values, double-click the crosshair or
the color map.
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Proc Amps The processing amplifier (proc amp) controls allow you to
adjust different aspects of your clip:
$ Hue Adjusts the tint of the colors in the image.
$ Saturation Adjusts the saturation (vividness) of the image’s colors.
$ Contrast Adjusts the difference in luminance between the lightest and
darkest areas of the image.
$ Brightness Adjusts the level of black in the image.
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Luma Input Levels These controls let you fine-tune your clip’s brightness
and contrast by changing the luminance value that represents black, white, or
gray. Doing so expands or compresses the range of luminance levels in your
clip, which increases or decreases your clip’s tonal range.
$ Black Use the slider to define black in your clip.
MAGENTA
RED
YELLOW
BLUE
CYAN
GREEN