User Guide

76 Studio 8
Some of the Colour type choices override some of the
individual video parameter settings. In general, though,
you can adjust video parameters in three categories:
• Chrominance (hue and saturation).
• Luminance (brightness and contrast).
• Style (blur, emboss, mosaic and posterize).
Hue: This is the visual property that allows us to
distinguish colours. The slider biases all the colours in
a clip towards red (left) or green (right). This can be
especially useful for correcting flesh tones in some
video.
Saturation: This is the quantity of pure colour, ranging
from zero (no colour at all – a grey scale) to fully
saturated (the maximum colour intensity your output
system can deliver). Move the slider leftwards for a
tonally-reduced, washed-out look; or rightwards for
extra vibrancy.
Brightness: This is the relative intensity of light,
without regard to colour. Try adjusting both brightness
and contrast to correct video that is underexposed or
overexposed.
Contrast: The range of light and dark values in a
picture or the ratio between the maximum and the
minimum brightness values. Moving the slider to the
left lowers contrast, forcing all areas of the image
towards medium brightness values. Moving the slider
to the right increases contrast, making dark areas darker
and bright areas brighter.
Blur: This is an effect akin to defocusing a camera.
Studio offers ten steps of blur.