Summary

At first glance, the inspector is a single panel; it’s not until you look a little deeper that you see it is, in fact, several different inspectors that vary depending on whether you are inspecting a video clip from the browser or the timeline. The view of the inspector will be different when inspecting a project or a library.

In this chapter, you learned about the different panels for the Video inspector where built-in and purchased effects are added from the Effects browser. You saw how to transform and crop images in the viewer by using the numerical controls in the inspector. You were shown details of how the stabilization of shaky footage can make an unusable clip functional.

You were shown how the Color inspector enhances clips with either the Color Board approach or with Color Wheels. There was a discussion of the advantages of each and how inexperienced users should build up from using Color Board to become proficient with Color Wheels, mainly due to the...