Applying Filters to a Clip in Final Cut Pro 5

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Hi! This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip I will show you how to apply a filter to a clip. All right so let's talk about applying a filter to a clip. Now you can apply filters to clips in your sequence or you can apply them to clips in the browser but it is very important to understand the distinction between the two methods. If you apply filters to a sequence clip, then they are applied only to that clip. The master clip in the browser remains untouched. Now if you apply filters to a master clip up in your browser though, instances of that clip already that are already in your sequence, they don't change but every other edit that you pull out of that media from the browser so if you open up a clip in the browser into the viewer and you pull that down and it has an effect applied, that effect will then carry over into the sequence. So let me just show you that real quick. Let me just open up a sequence here in the browser. All right I have this clip in a time line has an effect. Has an effect on it, has many effects actually and you can see it is kind of like blurred out here. Now the original up in my browser is not affected by me adding that effect to this clip but if I am up in the browser and I go ahead and open up a full clip here and then okay, let me go ahead and add an effect to that. So you can add an effect by just going over to the effects tab twirling down video filters and choosing an effect or you can go up to effects, video filters and choose and effect from here So I am just going to drag in a radial blur. Okay so you can see now my shots now are all blurred and shifted to the side and what not. So if I click and drag and make a selection of my in and out points and if I click and drag into my time line, that effect is still applied. It is very important to know the difference between that. In most cases you are only going to be applying filters to individual clips in the sequence not really in master clips in the browser. There may be occasions, there are exceptions where you want every instance of your clip edited into a sequence that have some type of filter applied to it and I really could only see the main thing of that being color correction. Obviously if your entire video needs to color corrected, you add the color correction in and then you bring in all your clips and they are all color corrected which is good in the fact that it takes care of that step of having to add clips later on but you also have to remember too that if you bring a color correction clip into your time line it has be rendered. So it is going to a lot harder if you edit that piece, if there is a filter already applied to it. Personally my rule is just go ahead and edit it first and then put in all your effects later. That way you can get it down to what you want and fine tune it with effects. The last step you do is render so you are not having to add a clip and then render and then render, oh you made a change and you have to render again. Just do all your rendering at the end. That is my advice to you.

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