The bad news is that this does not work well. Now that you have the red color selected, adjust the color wheels to change the color, saturation and/or luminance, as illustrated in the changes I made in the screen shot above. Start by dragging the small sliders above H, then move to S (saturation) and end with L (luminance), tweaking each until all of the red balloon – and JUST the red balloon is selected.In general, keep the feathering fairly minimal. The sliders below the red line affect feathering. NOTE: The sliders above the red line affect color selection. By dragging horizontally, you are adjusting which colors (hues) are selected. First, click ON the red line in H (for Hue) and drag left or right to remove colors which aren’t red.To clean this up, we’ll drag the HSL sliders in the mask so only the red is selected. In this example, I selected the red balloon and some of the yellow.In the Inspector, click View Masks so you can see precisely what’s selected.Click the gray eyedropper, so it turns blue, then drag to select just the red balloon.Select HSL from the color mask Type menu.Adjust Softness until you’ve selected as much red as possible and no other color. In the Inspector, click the words View Mask in the color mask to see the current mask selection.Your goal is to select as much of the red as possible, without selecting any other color. Click the gray eye-dropper at the top of the mask, so that it turns blue, then click and drag inside the red balloon.Select 3D from the color mask Type menu.You select which one you want to use from the Type menu. 3D is newer and easier to use, HSL (which stands for “Hue, Saturation & Luminance”) has more control. There are two types of Color Masks: 3D and HSL. You can use this same technique to delete a color mask you no longer need. NOTE: If you choose Shape Mask by mistake, make sure it is highlighted with a yellow box and press the Delete key. Slide your mouse near the title “Color Wheels 1” to reveal a gray icon (red arrow).Click the Color Inspector (left arrow) and choose Color Wheels (menu by right arrow).Put the playhead in the clip with the element you want to change and select the clip.NOTE: Apple has improved the color masks a lot in recent versions, so if you, like me, have not looked at them recently, you are in for a pleasant surprise. My general preference is to use the Color Wheels for color correction, which is what we’ll use for this example. Instead, we need to use a color mask, which selects a portion of an image based upon its color.Ĭolor masks can be used with the Color Board, Color Wheels or Color Curves. A shape mask won’t work, because the balloon has a very unusual shape. In order to change the color of the red balloon, we need to select just those red colors. The balloon is, essentially, a single color, in focus, with clearly defined edges. The easiest fix is when there is a clear difference between the color you want to fix – the red balloon – and the rest of the images in the frame. In this tutorial, I’ll show how to use both. A better option is to use the Hue/Saturation Curves. The traditional approach is to use a color mask, but, as you’ll see, these are pretty limited. You can’t go back and reshoot, so, after the swearing stops, how do you “fix it in post?”įinal Cut provides two different ways to fix the color of an object in the frame, without changing the color of the entire frame: The production planning was almost perfect… except, during the shoot an actor wore the wrong color shirt, or a key coffee mug was the wrong color, or, something in the background is just too obvious.
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