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Sharpness
Sharpen: The fader allows you to regulate the level of image sharpness or apply a soft
filter.
Apply to: Allows you to set just how much the sharpness settings should be applied
to surfaces or to edges. This enables you to effectively reduce ongoing image
distortions (noise).
Artistic blur: Here you can apply various soft filters. The achieved effects are much
stronger compared to simply sliding the controller under "Sharpen".
Tip: Artificial blur achieves good effects when used for transitions. To do so, you can
animate (view page 147) the first video so that it is strongly blurred and let the
second video begin with blur and slowly return to normal focus.
Speed
The playing speed can be adjusted with the slider control. The range between 0 and 1
plays the video slowly; values above 1 accelerate playback. If playing speed is
increased, the object length in the arranger is automatically shortened.