Applying Filters to a Part of a Clip in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this video I will finish up talking about applying filters to a clip. In this case if you were to apply a color filter to the master clip in the browser, you know all the filters that are down in your sequence are still independent of each other. So again if you modify the filter up in the browser your clips in the sequence will still be the same. So if you already added some clips from that master into a sequence, you are going to have to manually put a filter on those. So now let's move down to the time line here and there are a couple of different ways you can apply filters to the clip. The first way is just go into the effects tab, twirling down your video filters and then grabbing a filter and dropping it into a clip. Then you can also select a clip and then go up to effects, video filters and you could just choose an effect from there as well. It is the same way up on the viewer. You can click drag, drop in the viewer or you can go up to effects and choose whatever filter you want. Now let's say you just wanted to put a filter to only part of a clip. Maybe you don't want the whole clip, just part of it. Well if you remember the range selection tool that is over here on the tool pallet just underneath our pointer selection tool, go ahead and click the range one which is this last one here, range selection tool GGG is the quickie for that. Now what we can do, let me go ahead and zoom in on here reel quick on a clip so you can see a little better because I care. Go ahead and select just a portion of it, there you go; portion. Then let me just go ahead and apply. Now you notice now that I just go to drag and drop onto that, only that selection is now is changing letting me know that I am applying it to that selection. I go ahead and add it; now it's added. Now if I open up this clip in the viewer and go over to the filters and let me just make this a little larger for you so you can see; there you go. Because to the right here you've got your key frame area, your key frame graph area. You can see that I've got these black lines and these black lines here are indicating where exactly that filter ends and begins and you can change that just by clicking and dragging. So you don't have to apply it to an entire clip, you can just apply it to a section which is really nice. "