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933Motion User Guide
Widescreen filter in Motion
“Letterboxes” an object by masking it horizontally at the top and bottom to simulate
different video and film aspect ratios. Because the image is masked, the layer beneath it
in the composition (or the background color of the project) appears in the border space
above and below the image. You can add a border to the masked image and customize the
color and size of the border.
Adjust this filter using the parameter controls in the Filters Inspector:
• Aspect Ratio: Sets the aspect ratio of the mask. Values include 1.66:1, 1.70:1, 1.78:1,
1.85:1, 2.35:1, 2.55:1, and 3.00:1.
• Offset: Sets the position of the mask relative to the Y center of the layer. Values range from
–1.0 (the bottom of the layer) to 0 (the center of the layer) to 1.0 (the top of the layer).
• Border Size: Sets the thickness of the border.
Note: The border has no effect on the aspect ratio mask. The Border Size control
merely adds a frame at the top and bottom edges of the filtered image.
• Border Color: Picks the color of the border. Color controls can be expanded with the
disclosure triangle to include Red, Green, Blue, and Opacity sliders to more precisely
select the color of the border.
• Mix: Sets the percentage of the original image that’s blended with the letterboxed image.
Color filters
Intro to Color filters in Motion
The filters in the Color category can be used in a number of ways. For example, you can
set a mood by making an image sepia-toned. In addition, these filters can fix problems with
contrast, color, gamma, or brightness.
There are 19 Color filters:
• Brightness boosts or lowers the uniform brightness of an image.
• Channel Mixer allows cross-mixing of red, green, blue, and alpha channels into one
another.
• Color Balance adjusts the relative balance of all three color channels of an image,
allowing two images to be color-matched, for example.
• Color Curves adjusts the components of individual color channels in an image, as well
as the luma channel.