16. Filters and Compositing

Just as the term motion properties is used to describe a collection of tools that do a lot more than move things, so the term filters applies to a lot more than just tools for tinting or texturing an image. Final Cut Pro comes with more than 70 video filters, with a wide variety of uses. In addition to a suite of image-control filters for color correction and tinting, Final Cut Pro provides filters you can use to blur, twirl, emboss, ripple, flip, mask, and key. When you’re done, you can apply another filter to generate visible timecode over your final results! For a list of video filters, refer to page III-241 of Apple’s Final Cut Pro User Manual PDF.

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