Color Filter Controls in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip I will continue to talk further about using the filter controls. Now you also have the color picker and that is this little box right here. You just click on that. Your color pallet picker comes up and then you can just kind of click around this pallet for different colors right along your color wheel here and to the right is the bar for your lightness, so you can make it brighter or darker and then white is right there in the middle. You can also too below here you've got these little boxes, these little squares. These are like for preset colors. You click on a color that is there and it automatically takes you to it. What you can actually do is find a color that you like and hmm, that green is tasty. You can just drag it from up here, up top on this bar here, click and drag it. You see now that I am dragging a box and just plop it right in there and you've just saved the color. If you are trying to match the exact color to different clips, it is really hard to get it exactly by clicking it on the color picker. We are just dragging a preset down. You can just you know pull up another clip and then click that, hey that's the same color. Now looking at the hue and saturation and the brightness a little bit more. Let me just cancel that. So hue determines which color is chosen. Your saturation determines how vivid the color is though saturation is 0 and the resulting color is always white and then you have your brightness. So if saturation is down, brightness is all the way down and you get black, brightness is up, you then get white. Yeah, it just determines how dark or white your color is. "