How to View and Adjust Filters in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip I will just finish up talking about the filter's parameters. Now to the right of that you have your parameters control. You can see its labeled by the parameter bar here and these are all the parameters controls. A lot of them have different parameter controls. They are usually not the same; they are usually different throughout. To the left of the control is the name of the control itself not just the name of the filter, but the name of the control. So I'll show you about all those different types later on. To the right of that in your nav, you have now the reset button. It is this X and it is the reset button. So if I click it, it resets everything that to default in that particular filter. You can go ahead and undo it if you want but it will reset it right back to the default. Now to the right of that you have the show/hide key frame pop up menu. All right, so right now show all can't be clicked but hide off can be. Now I just hit all my key frames. I just click show all and it brings it back up. Then below that is now the key frame button. It is just represented by a diamond inside this little button here. You click that and it creates a key frame. Let me just move this over. Click it and it creates a key frame and then when you are on a key frame and you click it, it deletes a key frame. Next to that now on th sides here, you have these little navigation buttons for your key frames. This lets you just kind of shuttle between your key frames. So that way instead of having to moving the play head and snap to it or try to precisely get it, you can just click these little arrows and take you right next or previously key frame. Then at the bottom here you have zoom controls. Similar to the zoom controls, when I say similar I mean the exact same to the zoom controls that are down in the sequence here. So you know by dragging the handle for zooming and you can use the bar here to the left. You can also use the zoom tool as well and just kind of zoom in so it is all up to you how you want to navigate it but that is the basic. "