Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1021)

This chapter covers the following:
• Different Ways to Use Filters (p. 1021)
• Applying a Filter to a Clip (p. 1022)
• Applying Multiple Filters to Clips (p. 1025)
• Viewing and Adjusting a Filter’s Parameters (p. 1026)
• Displaying Filters Bars in the Timeline (p. 1034)
• Enabling and Rearranging Filters (p. 1035)
• Copying and Pasting a Clip’s Filters (p. 1036)
• Removing Filters from Clips (p. 1036)
Once you have clips in a sequence, you can apply filters to process and modify the visual
content of your clips.
Different Ways to Use Filters
Filters allow you to modify and enhance the look of your clips. You can use filters to do
the following:
• Adjust a clip’s image quality: Use color correction filters to adjust specific qualities of
your clip, such as color, brightness and contrast, saturation, and sharpness. These filters
allow you to compensate for mistakes in exposure by adjusting the color balance and
exposure of clips after shooting. You can fine-tune the clips in your edited sequence,
making sure that the color and exposure of all the clips in a scene match as closely as
possible. You can also use color correction filters to stylize the clips in your project,
manipulating color and exposure to create specific effects. For more information, see
“Color Correction with Color.”
• Create visual effects: Certain filters, such as the Ripple or Fisheye filter, create bold visual
effects. You can apply and combine these filters to create effects ranging from spinning
your clip in simulated 3D space to blurring, rippling, and flipping a clip’s image in the
Canvas.
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