Apple Final Cut Express 4 - Manual (Page 677)

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Using Video Filters
Once you have clips in a sequence, you can apply filters
to process and modify the visual content of your clips.
This chapter covers the following:
 Different Ways to Use Filters (p. 677)
 Applying a Filter to a Clip (p. 678)
 Applying Multiple Filters to Clips (p. 681)
 Viewing and Adjusting a Filter’s Parameters (p. 682)
 Enabling and Rearranging Filters (p. 689)
 Copying and Pasting a Clip’s Filters (p. 690)
 Removing Filters from Clips (p. 691)
Different Ways to Use Filters
Filters allow you to modify and enhance clips in various ways. You can:
 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 Chapter 46, “
Color Correction ,” on page 693.
 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.