In a previous tutorial, I showed
you how to
create an adjustment layer and also filter,
the wiggle filter which create some
movement or the handheld look for your videos.
Now I'm gonna create just two more filters,
one I'm gonna call gamma and another call YUV
adjust. Now I've created them here already but we are going to recreate them
for you, pretty simple, just go into motion,
open a new project, in motion and call it
Final Cut Effect, click on that.
Go to the library, go to your filters
and color correction. Just come down here to gamma,
let's apply that. I'm not sure why they don't include
gamma as a filter in FCPX
because it's such a useful way to adjust your midtones
without really touching your whites or blacks.
It's a great filter to get closer to that film look
especially if you expose well for the whites and blacks and you just wanna
lift or depress your midtones,
very useful. So we go to inspector now
and just make sure you publish these parameters so that you can change them
when you're in Final Cut so let's publish those.
And then we come up here and save this as,
call this 'Gamma'. Gonna save it in my Final Cut
Effects, you can create your own
theme here but I'm gonna leave it in this previous
main folder, so we'll publish that. Okay, I'm gonna
make another filter here so I'm gonna go back to the library,
come down here to YUV Adjust,
if you used to using the YUV color space,
this is a really nice way to adjust your colors.
Just as an alternative to the colour board. I like it so let's just
apply it, go to the inspector here and once again, just make sure you
publish each one of these parameters so that it
actually is usable over
in Final Cut. Okay and we just save as
YUV Adjust,
publish. Now,
if we flip over to Final Cut, we should have
these two filters. Just going to reload
them. Let's put gamma
onto this clip and let's adjust the gamma a little bit
so we can go up or down and as you can see we can really change the mid tones
a lot.
The mix is useful too to,
increase or reduce
the amount of this filter on the original footage.
So that's gamma and let's add
YUV Adjust, there you go.
Oh, I added gamma twice, let me just take out one of them. This is YUV Adjust and you
can
adjust your Y.
U.V, and of
course, change the mix. See you can get a
very different look, very quickly with just this adjustments.
It's what I like about this, it's your style of adjusting.
Not so used to the colour board yet
but there you go! Alternative filters for
FCPX. I'm gonna
include a link to download this if you download just go to
your movies,
motion templates and effects, and put them
in which ever folder you like there.