Pro Moviemaker Winter 2018

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Camera LUTS and HDR Final Cut Pro X began helping you with this workflow the moment you started importing media. 1 With a clip selected, go to the Info Inspector > Extended view option. 2 Notice that Final Cut Pro X has used the clip’s metadata and automatically applied a Raw to Log conversion and the appropriate camera LUT to match the gamma curve to your chosen output colour space. 3 You have the option to turn all this off and to either grade from scratch, using the Final Cut Pro X’s excellent colour correction tools, or import other custom camera LUTs/ creative LUTs as required. When importing these be careful to set the correct output colour space to match the one in your HDR project. Setting Up HDR ccopes 4 Now optimise your layout to grade your HDR content. Go to the workspace drop-down menu and, under Workspaces, select the Colour & Effects layout. 5 Your video scopes are now visible, but let’s focus on the most useful one capable of representing extended HDR values. 6 Click on the scope’s option menu and select the ‘one scope’ option. 7 8 Now, select the Scope Settings Option button and choose Waveform > RGB Parade. 9 10 Your parade now shows a scale from 0 to 10,000 NITs.

“Final Cut Pro X 10.4 is the first version of Apple’s flagship editing tool capable of post- producing amazing High Dynamic Range content”

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Making SDR from HDR Making an SDR version from your HDR project is a fairly simple process. First, create a completely independent project. 1 Right click on the original HDR project and select ‘Duplicate as Snapshot’. 2 Select everything in the duplicate project, right click and select New Compound Clip.

IMAGES Final Cut Pro X gives you the option of grading from scratch or importing other custom camera LUTs.

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PRO MOVIEMAKER WINTER 2018

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