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Sharpness
Sharpen: The fader allows you to increase the sharpness of the image.
Blur: The fader allows you to reduce the sharpness of the image.
Apply to: This allows you to set just how much the sharpness or blur should be
applied to surfaces or edges. This enables you to effectively reduce ongoing image
distortions (noise).
Artificial blur: Here you can apply various soft filters. The achieved effects are much
stronger compared to simply sliding the controller in "Blur".
Quality: Adjusts the strength of the artificial blur more accurately.
Tip: Artificial blur achieves good effects when used for transitions. To do so, you can
animate (view page 145) 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 the playing speed is
increased, the object length in the project window is automatically shortened.