Apple Final Cut Pro 7 User Manual download pdf (Page 99)

• Overlays: Final Cut Pro provides translucent visual cues, called overlays, that help you

easily recognize certain parts of your edit in the Viewer, such as the markers and In

and Out points of clips in your sequence. To view overlays such as title safe and

timecode overlays, you need to turn on this option.

• Title safe and action safe overlays: These overlays show you the boundaries within

which you need to keep your graphics and text so they’ll appear when the sequence

is played back on television. For more information, see “Creating Titles.”

• Timecode overlays: These overlays display the source timecode for clips and are

color-coded to show which items are in sync. For more information, see “About

Timecode Overlays and Sync Color Coding.”

• Excess luma: This overlay indicates whether the luma levels of your footage are

acceptable for broadcast. For more information, see “About Color Correction.”

• RGB, Alpha, or Alpha+RGB: When you’re compositing, it can sometimes be handy to

have a quick look at the alpha channel of your clip. The alpha channel defines areas

of transparency, and can change if various filters are applied. Viewing your sequence

with the Alpha or Alpha+RGB option selected shows you exactly which areas of your

image have transparency. Additional controls are available in the View menu for

viewing the individual Red, Green, and Blue channels. If the image display area in

the Viewer is all black or all white, it may be because the Canvas is set to view only

the alpha channel instead of the RGB channels. Try changing the channel view to

RGB to solve this problem.

• Black, White, Checkerboard: When working with clips that have an alpha channel, you

can choose different backgrounds to make it easier to see which areas of your picture

are transparent. For example, translucent clips or generated text may be more visible

if you choose a background that emphasizes them, such as Checkerboard 1 or 2. You

can also view Red, Green, and Blue background colors using the View menu.

Playhead Sync Pop-Up Menu

You can lock the Viewer playhead to the Canvas/Timeline playhead so that they move

together while scrubbing through clips.

Note: This menu also appears in the Canvas, and the options are the same.

Playhead Sync pop-up

menu in the Viewer

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Apple Final Cut Pro 7 User Manual Page 99