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
Intro to color correcting ProRes RAW video in Final Cut Pro for Mac
Apple ProRes RAW lets you work with the camera sensor’s RAW data in Final Cut Pro. Because ProRes RAW preserves the full dynamic range and color gamut captured by the camera, it’s an ideal format for creating and color correcting wide-gamut, high-dynamic-range (HDR) content. If you want to create standard-dynamic-range (SDR) content, such as high-definition broadcast (Rec. 709) video, the high dynamic range of a ProRes RAW source file must be restricted to a dynamic range suitable for viewing on an SDR display. This process is called tone mapping.
Most professional cameras today support recording in a log format. Using log enables a higher dynamic range of light levels (and in many cases, a wider color gamut) to be represented. Because many color correction workflows are based on working with log video, Final Cut Pro can automatically apply a log conversion setting to ProRes RAW media files during import. You can also use custom lookup table (LUT) effects on log-encoded video. For more information about LUTs and log conversion, see Apply LUTs in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
There are three primary ways to color correct ProRes RAW video in Final Cut Pro:
Use log conversion with built-in camera LUTs: Use the automatic log conversion applied by Final Cut Pro to color correct ProRes RAW video. See Use built-in camera LUTs to color correct ProRes RAW video in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
Use log conversion with custom LUT effects: Apply log conversion to ProRes RAW video, so that you can color correct it as if it were log video, and then use a custom LUT effect to convert from log to the output color space. See Use custom LUT effects to color correct ProRes RAW video in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
Color correct directly without LUTs: Turn off automatic log conversion, which lets you color correct ProRes RAW video as HDR video, whether library color processing is set to Standard or Wide Gamut HDR. See Color correct ProRes RAW video directly without LUTs in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
Note: For maximum control of your ProRes RAW color correction workflow, you can use a ProRes RAW plug-in, which takes advantage of the unique properties of the cameras, sensors, and lenses that were used to produce your ProRes RAW media. See Adjust ProRes RAW camera settings in Final Cut Pro for Mac and Apple ProRes RAW.
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