Operation Manual

Chapter 5: Media editing: Effects
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Water drop: This effect simulates the impact of a drop falling onto
the surface of water, producing expanding, concentric ripples.
Water wave: This effect adds distortion to simulate a series of
ocean waves passing across the video frame as the clip progresses.
Parameters allow you to adjust the number, spacing, direction and
depth of the waves.
Black and white: This effect subtracts some or all of the color
information from the source video, with results ranging from partly
desaturated (the ‘Faded’ preset) to fully monochrome (‘Black and
white’). The Amount slider controls the strength of the effect.
Color correction: The four sliders in the parameters panel for this
effect control the coloration of the current clip in terms of:
• Brightness: The intensity of light.
• Contrast: The range of light and dark values.
• Hue: The location of light on the spectrum.
• Saturation: The quantity of pure color, from gray to fully
saturated.
Color map: This effect colorizes an image using a pair of blend
ramps, or color maps. Stylize your footage with bold color
treatments, add duotone and tritone style colorization, or create
striking editorial transitions. The effect can be used for anything
from fine control of monochrome images to psychedelic color
transformations.
Invert: Despite its name, the Invert effect doesn’t turn the display
upside-down. Rather than the image itself, it is the color values in
the image that are inverted: each pixel is redrawn in its
complementary light intensity and/or color, producing a readily
recognizable but recolored image.
This effect uses the YCrCb color model, which has one channel for
luminance (brightness information) and two channels for
chrominance (color information). The YCrCb model is often used in
digital video applications.
Lighting: The Lighting tool enables correction and enhancement of
existing video that was shot with poor or insufficient lighting. It is