LearnScatter2.9

Final Cut Pro Quick Start

Install and activate Scatter

  1. Sign in to your Video Village Account and find your Scatter 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.
  4. In the Video Village Plugins app, select Final Cut, then select Install. (Final Cut Pro must not be running during installation.)

Color management

If you will be working in SDR, leave the Final Cut library set to Standard Gamut SDR.

Final Cut library color processing set to Standard Gamut SDR

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

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 installed with Scatter.

Add Scatter to an adjustment clip

We recommend applying Scatter to an adjustment clip above your footage.

  1. Choose Edit → Add Adjustment Clip and extend the clip to cover the shots you want to affect.
  2. Choose Window → Show in Workspace → Effects (or press Command-5) to open the Effects browser.
  3. Select Video Village under VIDEO and find Scatter. You can also type Scatter in the search field at the bottom of the browser.
  4. Drag the Scatter effect thumbnail onto the adjustment clip in the timeline.
  5. Select that clip, choose Window → Show in Workspace → Inspector (or press Command-4), then click the Video button at the top of the inspector to access the plugin controls.

Using an adjustment clip allows Final Cut Pro to render Scatter at the timeline resolution. You can also drag Scatter directly onto a footage clip for shot-specific control.

Select your camera

Scatter Source control set to Arri Log C

Set Source in Scatter to match the native log color space of your footage, or select Arri LogC4 if you are using the Video Village Camera Conversion LUTs.

Interface Tour

Scatter Source, Family, Strength, Intensity, and Focal Length controls

Source: Choose the colorspace of your “log” or “scene-referred” footage or working space.

Family and Strength: Select the family of profiled filters, then select the strength of the selected filter family.

Intensity: Amplify or reduce the effect of the active filter.

Focal Length: Reduce or enlarge the falloff to approximate other fields of view, expressed in millimeters of focal length on s35mm.

Highlight Color Recovery: Rebuild color information in blown-out highlight regions by considering the hue of neighboring pixels so diffusion can be calculated more naturally.

Highlight Adjustment: Amplify or reduce diffused highlights either for creative effect or to compensate for clipped highlights that should be brighter than what the sensor was able to record.

Edge: Select Vignette, Mirrored, or Repeated to determine how Scatter extrapolates beyond image bounds.

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