Why the Color Picker is a circle?

Hello

I have been using FCPX for a while and sometimes I need to use the color for a third-party effect selector, but instead of the usual pipette or magnifying glass icon, I get this big circle with a small rectangle at the Center.  It get bigger, but the circle is too much.  No idea what happened to the usual color picker?

TIA,

James

The 'default' selector is a favorite of "color wheel" typical of most of the artists. It is indicative of the perceptual nature of color (red - orange - yellow - green - purple - blue - cyan - red.)

The System color picker may be a circle of color wheel, sliders, 'tags' or tabs or color chart (However, you want to refer to them), spectrum and color pencils (48 colors). There are five small icons at the top of the switch. Choose the system that you want to use. If you select the selector of cursors, you will have the option of grayscale, RGB, CMYK and HSB. You can also 'load' the squares down with your "favourites".

You may prefer the spectrum switch:

You can also try right clicking on the color tab in the Inspector (or click on the arrow down on the right side) and you will get this compact popup:

but there will be a pipette instead of the arrow cursor.

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