Muted Color Effect in FCP

I have a clip that i need to make look really boring and dull. Other than changing it to black and white is there any other effect in FCP i can use to make it look muted and dull? Cheers.

you could add a sepia filter, but make the sepia grey from the colour picker,
rgb filter and dial out some of the colours, colour corrector 3way and crush the mids, duplicate the timeline video layer and blend composite mode to soft light or screen or add

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