Final Cut Pro User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Intro to effects
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- Intro to transitions
- How transitions are created
- Add transitions and fades
- Quickly add a transition with a keyboard shortcut
- Set the default duration for transitions
- Delete transitions
- Adjust transitions in the timeline
- Adjust transitions in the inspector and viewer
- Merge jump cuts with the Flow transition
- Adjust transitions with multiple images
- Modify transitions in Motion
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- Add storylines
- Use the precision editor
- Conform frame sizes and rates
- Use XML to transfer projects
- Glossary
- Copyright
Analyze a clip for color in Final Cut Pro for Mac
To automatically balance a clip’s color, Final Cut Pro uses a single frame from the clip as a reference and calculates a correction for it that is then applied to the entire clip. Analyzing a clip for color balance allows Final Cut Pro to choose a representative frame as the clip’s color balance reference frame. (You can also choose a reference frame manually by positioning the playhead or the skimmer within the clip and then balancing the clip’s color.)
You can have a clip’s color balance analyzed when you import it, whether importing from a camera, importing a file, or dragging a clip directly to the timeline from a Finder window. You can also analyze a clip’s color balance at any time in the browser.
Analyzing a clip for color balance can take from a few seconds for shorter clips to a minute or more for longer clips. The analysis process takes longer if you also analyze for people and stabilization issues.
For information about turning the color balance correction on and off, in either the browser or the timeline, see Balance a clip’s colors in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
Analyze color balance during file import
In Final Cut Pro, choose File > Import > Media (or press Command-I).
In the Media Import window, select the files to import, then select “Analyze video for balance color” in the Analyze and Fix section on the right.
Click the Import button.
The files are imported and analyzed for color balance issues.
Analyze color balance for clips dragged to the timeline from the Finder
Choose Final Cut Pro > Settings, or press Command-Comma (,).
In the Final Cut Pro Settings window, click the Import button and select “Analyze video for balance color” in the Analyze and Fix section.
All clips that you drag directly to the timeline from the Finder are now analyzed.
Note: When you change this setting in the Settings window, the setting is also changed in all other windows that have an “Analyze video for balance color” option.
Analyze color balance for clips in the browser
When you analyze the color balance of clips in the browser, any clips that were analyzed during import are skipped.
Select one or more clips in the Final Cut Pro browser.
Do one of the following:
Choose Modify > Analyze and Fix.
Control-click one of the selected clips and choose Analyze and Fix.
In the window that appears, select “Analyze for balance color” in the Video section, then click OK.
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