How do you change the ocean colour from greenish to blue?

In the lower left of the 3W-CC there is an small triangle that open the "limiter".
That you produce a mask on the picture (HSL: based on the tone and bright and saturation) where the the correction will take place, instead of affecting the whole frame.
You can combine that with duplicating the layer and cropping or using some "Garbage matte" so you can change just the areas of the image that you want.
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Color does an amazing job at this. Also DaVinci Resolve Light is free....plus it is software that is still supported.

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HSL keying is tricky. You might need more than one color corrector to cover the range of the ocean.

Rich Harrington did a tutorial a few years back that described the HSL limit effect process in FCP's 3wayCC. If you want to do it in FCP it might be worth hunting that down. I have linked to it before so earching this forum should throw it up or just search Rich's tutorials.

A tool like Color with multiple secondaries and the ability to mask limit the key effect will do a much better job.

Wow that was fast,

Looks like I'll do it in colour rather than colour corrector. Which brings me to the point of that I have gone ahead and placed stills and dissolves/video transitions and when I send the whole file 6 minutes worth. All the files show up (Shot name and numbers) file but no clips do just one or two. I read on the forums that there is a whole process of like stripping back so there are no stills and now transitions just the movie clips for colour to work. The whole time line has no visual images on it just the wireframe box.

The ones that do play back are the stock footage purchased online. My original footage shot on red that was converted properly is no where to be seen.

Screenshot attached if my novice ways didn't explain it.



Thanks again

Thanks Michael, Looks like its time to read up on those people and carefully learn how to do it.

I already have al the RED codecs. What did you mean " Still don't go into colour, nor does h264 etc"

Thanks

Ciao for now

Here is a link to a tutorial to help you prepare your sequences to go from FCP to color. by Walter Biscardi.

Also, if you just need to color correct a few shots then you only need to bring in those shots. Other wise you will need to convert the stock footage shots to a codec Color will use. Best of luck.

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