Common Filter Controls in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip we will talk about viewing and adjusting a filter's parameter. So n ow that you have one or more filters and when I say more, anywhere from 1 to a bazillion, now you can adjust the parameters up in the viewer so we can actually change the parameters of the filters. So first let's go ahead and open up a clip in the viewer that has some filters applied. I already have one so if you want to take a minute and add some filters to something and then open it up. The filters that I have are garshon blur channel, wind blur and I also have a couple audio filters if you want to put the same ones in there. First off, each filter has its own individual parameters and controls but all the filters do have some controls in common and I am gong to cover the ones that they have in common right now. The first thing is the filter category bar. You know you have video filters right here and you have audio filters. It says stereo because they are stereo sound. If it was mono, you would have mono as well. So basically it is video and audio. You just click the little arrow here and twirl it down and then it reveals all the filters underneath that tab or the bar, sorry. Let me go ahead and make this larger first. It will kind of make it a little bit easier always for your viewing pleasure. There we go; that's pretty good. Okay, so you have the name bar which is right here; your name bar and it says just that, the name. Let me put it back up top. So yeah like I said you have the name here. If you want to extend this because you can't read the name like it says gazia, go ahead and click this little bar and move to the side and you've extended it. Now you can actually read what it says which is always a plus. Now next to the name you have this little check box here; the enable/disable check box and when that is unchecked, it basically makes the filter unviewable. So if you look at my image it is very blurry, very blurry. If I uncheck garshon blur, it becomes sharper; much sharper. I haven't changed any of the parameters with it; I just kind of turned it to visibility off. That's it! You can do that for as many or as little as you want. So it is a great way you know, if you have multiple filters applied, you can just single one out and work with it and then turn the other ones on. "