User manual

Applying and Editing Effects

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Adding User and Layer Effects

You can add individual effects to any segment in your composition in addition

to the existing colour correction layers. These effects can be added in two

ways, as user effects or as layer effects:

User effects are added to the Effects layer at the top of the effects tree.

Except Composite effects which are added at the bottom of the

effect tree (below the Master layer).

Layer effects are added as new layers in the effects tree. These may be

Colour Correction layers (CC Layer/Base) or Effect Layers (FX Layers).

The benefit of layer effects is that you can change the position of the layer

within the effects tree and therefore the order that it will be processed in, since

effects are processed top-down based on their order in the effects tree. User

effects can only be ordered within the effects layer and the position of the

effects layer cannot be changed.

As when adding colour correction layers, layer effects are only added to the