Source: [Final Cut Pro Quick Start](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/getting-started/final-cut-pro)

# Final Cut Pro Quick Start

## Install and activate Filmbox Looks

1. Sign in to your [Video Village Account](https://license.videovillage.com) and find your Filmbox Looks license page.
2. Download the **Video Village Plugins** app.
3. On the license page, select `Activate on this device` to launch the Video Village Plugins app and install your license automatically.

### If you can't open the activation link

Select `Get activation code` on the license page and copy the code. Open the Video Village Plugins app, select `Activate a product`, then paste the code when prompted.

4. In the Video Village Plugins app, select `Final Cut`, then select `Install`. (Final Cut Pro must not be running during installation.)

## Color management

Create a library set to `Standard Gamut SDR`.

![Final Cut library color processing set to Standard Gamut SDR](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/getting-started/final-cut-library-sdr-setup-39fc1e39.png)

**Disable Color Conform** on all media by selecting all clips and disabling Color Conform in the Media Properties pane. This prevents Final Cut from applying a look to your footage.

![Final Cut Pro Media Properties with Color Conform enabled](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/getting-started/final-cut-color-conform-14b97c90.png)

If you are working with clips from different cameras, you may want to convert them to one common working space using the Video Village Camera Conversion LUTs that come with Filmbox.

### Video Village Camera Conversion LUT setup

![Video Village camera conversions in Final Cut Pro's Camera LUT menu](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/getting-started/final-cut-camera-conversions-52732cfb.png)

Select all clips from the same camera. In the `Media Info` pane, select the `Info` tab, change the view from `Basic` to `General`, then open the `Camera LUT` menu. Under `Video Village Conversion`, select the transform that matches the selected footage. For graphics or generic video, select `Generic Video (Rec. 709)`.

Once all footage has been assigned the appropriate conversion to `ARRI LogC4`, set Filmbox `Source` to `LogC4` and work as though every clip is now in that space.

## Add Filmbox Looks to an adjustment clip

![Dragging Filmbox from Final Cut Pro's Effects browser onto an adjustment clip](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/getting-started/final-cut-apply-filmbox-c5225752.png)

**Apply Filmbox to an Adjustment Clip** by choosing `Edit > Add Adjustment Clip`, then apply Filmbox to that clip. Using an Adjustment Clip allows FCP to render Filmbox at the timeline resolution instead of the clip resolution for optimal performance and textural quality, though you can also apply Filmbox directly to a clip if you need to.

![Filmbox Source setting in Final Cut Pro set to Sony S-Log3 - S-Gamut3.Cine](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/getting-started/final-cut-source-setting-58e3fdba.png)

**Select the color space of your footage** in the Filmbox `Source` setting, or select `LogC4` if you are using the Video Village Conversion LUTs.

![Filmbox Pre-Grade effect icon in Final Cut Pro](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/getting-started/final-cut-filmbox-pre-grade-31d63699.png)

**Filmbox Pre-Grade** is a separate plugin that comes with Filmbox and is intended to be applied to individual clips so you can make exposure and balance adjustments to clips while the rest of Filmbox processing occurs on the adjustment clip above.

## Interface Tour

![Filmbox Looks interface with Source, Camera, Looks Family, Look, and characteristic controls](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/interface-83e28ed6.png)

- **[Source](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/source-camera):** Select the colorspace your footage was recorded in.
- **[Camera](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/source-camera#camera):** Adjust true Exposure, Temp, and Tint of the footage, just like on the camera.
- **[Looks](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks):** Select a Look from a Family of looks with similar characteristics.
- **[Look controls](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/grading):** Adjust basic characteristics of the selected look.

## Looks Library

Looks are organized into Families that share core characteristics. “II” Families are general-purpose emulations ordered from cleanest to most filmic: grain, halation, gate weave, dust, and photochemical color character generally intensify as you move toward 8mm.

![General-purpose Looks families from Clean and Commercial through 8mm](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/full-guide/looks-film-families-f653a5ba.png)

- **[Clean & Commercial](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#clean-and-commercial):** Neutral color with minimal grain and halation; no weave or dust.
- **[Idealized 35mm](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#idealized-35mm):** Versatile film color with restrained grain and texture.
- **[Full 35mm](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#full-35mm):** Authentic 35mm color, grain, halation, dust, and weave.
- **[16mm](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#16mm):** Gritty small-gauge texture with stronger grain, halation, and weave.
- **[8mm](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#8mm):** Nostalgic home-movie texture with heavy grain, halation, weave, dust, and flicker.

![Aesthetic Looks families including Pastel, Photography, Iconic, Vintage Cinema, Black and White, and Extreme](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/full-guide/looks-aesthetic-families-c112eb0a.png)

- **[Pastel & Low-Contrast](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#pastel-and-low-contrast):** Soft, airy color with restrained contrast.
- **[Photography](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#photography):** Popular still-film negatives, including halation-heavy CineStill looks.
- **[Iconic](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#iconic):** Homages to movies with distinctive visual identities.
- **[Vintage Cinema](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#vintage-cinema):** Period looks based on older, often expired cinema stocks.
- **[Black & White](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#black-and-white):** Monochrome looks with varied tone, grain, and texture.
- **[Extreme](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#extreme):** Unconventional film looks that push color and style.

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