Introduction

We've spent the previous few chapters learning how to speed up your workflow, trim and re-edit clips, adding new visuals with text and generators, but we have barely touched the quality of your material itself. Does your image look any good? Does it look too good? Does the color and tone match the vibe and mood of your film?

There's a reason this chapter starts with the word altering and not improving. The goal isn't always about making an image better. Sometimes it's about making an image match either a vibe or another clip.

The next few recipes will take us through the basics of fixing basic image problems as well as learning how to use some of FCPX's color controls to not only improve upon an image, but to tweak it to make it unique and make it your own.