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3. Click the Correction's Color Board button to open the Color Board and click the Color pane. Make sure
Inside Mask is selected and click and drag the Global puck to move it across the different colors in the up-
per section of the Color Board. Notice how the baton changes to the color selected in the Color Board,
while the rest of the image remains unaffected. Choose any color you prefer. For the Pranks Final Cut Pro-
ject included on the DVD, colorist John McMullin turned the baton's green color to a gray by reducing the
selected color's saturation down to zero in the Saturation pane.
Figure 15.10 Isolating the green baton with a color mask.
Using shape masks
You also can mask an area in an image by using a shape. Open the Inspector's Video pane and under Color,
click the Add Shape Mask button (the second button on the Correction) to add a shape mask to your image. A
Shape Mask icon is added below the Correction, and two circles display over the image in the Viewer. These
circles represent the shape mask and allow you to control the shape. The inner circle contains five handles—one
white and four green—which let you control the shape and size of the mask. By dragging any of the green
handles at the top, bottom, left, or right of the inner circle, you can affect the shape's width and height. Holding
down the Shift key as you drag scales the four sides of the shape proportionally. Dragging the white handle to-
ward the left allows you to make the shape more rectangular.
The outer circle controls the softness of the shape's edge. By clicking and dragging the outer circle, the softness
of the edge increases the further you drag from the inner circle. Softening the edge helps conceal the shape
mask, helping it to blend in with the rest of the image. A center circle with a green handle sits in the middle of
the shape. Clicking and dragging the center circle enables you to position the shape over the section of the im-
age that you want to mask, while dragging on the green handle enables you to rotate the shape.
Once you've created your shape and positioned it over the area that you want to mask, go to the Inspector's
Video pane and click the Correction's Color Board button to open the Color Board and make your adjustments.
Just as with color masks you can make separate adjustments to both the inside and outside of the shape mask by
using the Inside Mask and Outside Mask buttons at the bottom of the Color Board.
Let's put this into practice with an example from Pranks. Scene 2 Slate 7 Take 1 is an exterior wide shot that
shows Katie's arrival at the house. Because this is a ghost story, let's see if we can add some atmosphere by
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