In addition, you can adjust sharpness settings with what Hawaiki Color calls “Sharpness Calibration” parameters - the familiar radius and amount settings we all know from image editing software. With Hawaiki Color you get controls for the four tone values/bands.
#Final cut pro x plugins 2018 pro#
Final Cut Pro X has a built-in plug-in that lets you sharpen your clip, but there are no controls except for a strength slider. The clip instantly changed to a dark and eerie mood. I was kind of surprised to find this in a colour grading plug-in and tried it out by setting the blend mode to Multiply after turning the highlights somewhat cooler and shadows somewhat warmer on a shot of a ruin of a small manor house. A Blend mode drop-down enables you to combine the grade with the original shot. A dim menu lets you dim the entire grading interface or only parts of it. For example, it comes with a view menu that allows you to see your grade in split mode - left, right, diagonal. The whole on-screen system kept reminding me of Da Vinci Resolve’s primary colour grading tools, but inside Final Cut Pro X. If you are not yet experienced - as I was during this review - you can turn on a faint white edge on the wheels so they are more clearly visible. Experienced users will like this mode as it offers all the controls without the distraction. If you’re using Hawaiki Color in Full-screen mode - overlaid on top of your clip - the wheels are by default turned off, but the control dots on wheels and sliders remain visible. In addition, the three colour wheels let you set an individual colour bias for the low/midtone/highlight values, adding to the range of colour effects that are possible.īetter yet, with the controls in the Inspector, you can set the sensitivity of the wheels to a higher or lower degree than the standard, which lets you play with subtle changes or, on the contrary, turn on drama. This per-band control allows you to adjust colours with a maximum of flexibility and creative possibilities - moods like ‘mojo’ are easily set up. All of these sliders can be changed on a global scale as well as for lows, midtones and highlights. The sliders that you can access on-screen affect white balance, exposure, saturation and hue/contrast/blur/sharpness. Hawaiki Color has sliders on-screen and in the Inspector that are duplicates of each other, so you can have numerical input (Inspector) in addition to on-screen controls that provide for instant visual feedback. So is Hawaiki Color, which displays itself as an overlay on top of your clip in the Viewer window, or as a set of controls surrounding the (resized) clip. It’s all traditional, familiar stuff with colour wheels, sliders and as much visual feedback as you possibly can cram into an app. It extends colour grading inside Final Cut Pro X beyond the basics and is great to work with.Įver tried working with Da Vince Resolve? Or Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Looks? You won’t find the colour grading controls the way they were implemented by Apple in Final Cut Pro X.
It’s a plug-in that uses the traditional but familiar interface elements for colour grading: colour wheels and sliders, combined with numeric configuration fields.
One FxFactory plug-in that tries to fix this is Hawaiki Color. Final Cut Pro X has a colour grading module, but the interface is non-standard and the capabilities are pretty basic.
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