Whether working in Final Cut Pro 7 or X, or Adobe After Effects, the parameter settings, as shown below, all appear to be the same so there is no re-learning of how to use the Nattress plugins in one application as opposed to another. I have to be careful that whites do not blow out the shot from the upper left to right of a different portion of the clip. Using the waveform monitor along with both the Nattress Curves and Curves Luma added, The finished image using only the Nattress Curves and Luma plugins and with the 'show curves' unchecked. I left the 'show curves' box checked on both for your own visual viewing. Shown below is the same image with both the Nattress Curves and Nattress Luma plugins applied. This plugin affects only the luma information in the image and does not affect any of the color itself. With the first Curves plugin's 'show curves' unchecked, I apply the Luma plugin which places an identical diagonal bar across the image. The Nattress Curves Luma plugin is the next to be applied. Nudging the knee slider brings some 'pop' to the white of the jellyfish. I always like to crush my blacks a bit but am careful not to crush them too much and create an unnatural appearance. By bringing the toe slider down a touch, I can bring my blacks and mids down to get closer to black. With the Curves plugin's parameters now adjusted by using black, toe and knee sliders, I am able to bring up the contrast a bit while using the white slider to prevent blowing out the image. As you can see, there is no change to the image as yet. The curves bar shown with parameter settings untouched. Of course, I would always recommend that you use your video-scopes along side any color adjustments you are making. When adjusting any of the sliders, the bar, representing these adjustments, provides a visual cue to how you are affecting your image. This white bar represents the curves parameters adjustments found in Final Cut Pro X's Inspector window. The first thing you will notice in your Viewer is the diagonal white bar across your clip in the viewer. By either dragging 'Curves' over to your timeline clip, or by simply selecting the clip and then double clicking on the plugin, the Curves plugin is then applied. This is where the first of the set, 'Curves' can be especially useful. The Nattress Curves set consists of four plugins, 'Curves', 'Curves Luma', 'Curves RGB' and 'Levels'.įound under 'Nattress' in the Final Cut Pro X Effects browser.Įspecially so when filming with a DSLR, it is often best to shoot with the lower contrast settings to avoid loss of picture information and then to add back both contrast and color saturation when in post production.
The Nattress Curves plugins do not quite work that way, but they can still be very useful to the editor working on their final color grading. In Photoshop and other 'curves' based plugins, you actually utilize the selecting of various points of the curve and drag up or down to affect the sweetening of the image's appearance a little push up here on the curve, and a drag down there as final tweaks to your image. What we have here is the latest in curve based color correction tools which function in both Final Cut 7 and X as well as Adobe After Effects. New on the market but certainly not new to the Final Cut Pro world is Graeme Nattress' set of 4 Curves Plugins.
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