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To fine-tune a video filter:
Right-click a selected clip with a previously added video filter and select
1.
Video Filters (or add a new filter).
Click the Options button to view the filter and change its attributes.
2.
When you click Options, a dialog box opens displaying two windows:
Original, with the selected video clip, and Preview, which shows the
result after application of the filter.
3. Change the various filter attributes until you get the result you want.
Remember to adjust both the start and end attributes by clicking on the
key frames.
The Video Filters dialog box varies according to the selected filter. For
details about the specifics of each filter, click the Help button in that par-
ticular filter dialog box. All of the filter dialog boxes contain the Original
clip window, the Preview window, and the Add button.
VIDEO FILTER OPTIONS DIALOG BOX (MONOCHROME)
Original Clip window shows a
frame from the selected clip
before the filter is applied.
Like many other effects, video filters can also be animated using key
frames. This is a great way to have the original video clip gradually trans-
form to the altered look of an applied filter, or vice versa. The following
procedure uses the Colored Pen filter to gradually transform what seems
like a drawn image into the real-life look of ordinary video.
VIDEO EDITOR: CHAPTER THREE
Preview window shows a frame
from the clip after the filter has
been applied.
Add opens the Add To Library
dialog box to add the current
effect settings to the Video
Filter's Custom folder for quick
access.
The options located here at the
bottom of the dialog box will vary
from filter to filter.
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