User Manual

USING VIDEO EFFECTS, COMPOSITING, AND MASKS | 305

Saving custom video effect settings as a preset

Click the Preset text box. The name of the current preset is highlighted.

Type a new name for the preset and click the Save button ( ).

Applying video event effects before or after event panning or cropping

To prevent unwanted blurring, you can choose whether effects are applied to the event before or after any event panning and

cropping by arranging the Pan/Crop button in the plug-in chain at the top of the Video Event FX window.

Here, the Deform plug-in is applied before the pan/crop and the Glow and Color Curves plug-ins are applied after the pan/crop.

In the following illustration, you can see how the order of plug-ins is important.

The goal of the above example is to use video effects plug-ins to create a very high-contrast mask out of a video clip of fire. In the

image on the left, a Brightness and Contrast plug-in is applied first and then a Black and White plug-in. In the image on the right,

the Black and White plug-in was applied first, removing the color, and then the Brightness and Contrast plug-in was applied. The

mask created by the second example is much cleaner, even though all of the settings of the two plug-ins are identical.

Tip:

To use a saved custom preset, simply choose it from the drop-down list.

Plug-in chain

Click a plug-in to

modify its settings in

the lower part of the

window.

Clear the check box

on a plug-in to

bypass it.

Drag a plug-in to

move it within the

chain.