Change color space settings in Final Cut Pro for iPad
Many projects involve combining SDR footage and HDR footage, or mixing different types of HDR footage.
Final Cut Pro manages color space settings automatically. By default, if you add a clip to a timeline that has a different color space setting, the clip’s color space is converted to the timeline’s color space.
You can manually change how the clip’s color space is conformed to the timeline’s color space settings. And if the color space of an imported browser clip isn’t tagged, or is tagged incorrectly, you can manually assign the clip’s color space.
Adjust how a timeline clip’s color space is conformed
In Final Cut Pro for iPad, open a project.
Tap a clip in the timeline, tap Inspect in the lower-left corner of the screen, then tap
at the top of the inspector.Tap
to the right of Color Conversion, tap Choose Manually, then tap an option:100% HDR Brightness: Apply this setting to SDR (Rec. 709) clips in HDR (HLG) timelines to inverse tone map a 100% SDR white level up to a 100% HLG signal level.
75% HDR Brightness: Apply this setting to SDR (Rec. 709) clips in HDR (HLG) timelines to map a 100% SDR white level to a 75% HLG signal level.
HDR (HLG) to SDR: Apply this setting to HDR (HLG) clips in SDR (Rec. 709) timelines to convert the clips to SDR luminance levels.
HDR (PQ) to SDR: Apply this setting to HDR (PQ) clips in SDR (Rec. 709) timelines to convert the clips to SDR luminance levels.
PQ to HLG: Apply this setting to HDR (PQ) clips in HDR (HLG) timelines to convert the clips from PQ to HLG. This setting results in HLG clips that appear on HLG reference displays identically to how the PQ clips would appear on a PQ display. The Peak Brightness setting indicates the peak luminance of the reference display. A value of 1000 nits is most commonly used for this conversion.
None: Turn off color conversion for the selected clip (the clip retains its native color space).
Set the color space of a browser clip
In Final Cut Pro for iPad, open a project, then tap
in the toolbar.In the browser, tap a clip you want to set the color space for.
Tap Inspect in the lower-left corner of the screen.
In the inspector, tap
to the right of Color Space Override, then tap a color space.Final Cut Pro applies the color space you chose and alters the look of the video clip accordingly. The change is applied to all instances of the clip, in all timelines in the current project.