
Chapter 4 Working with Effects and Filters
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2. From the menu, select a different filter.
Viewing Filters
You can turn the filters on a track on or off by using the Filter Visibility button. When the
Filter Visibility is on, the filtered output can be viewed in the Composite window and in the
rendered output.
Turning off a track’s filter visibility speeds preview time when you are not working with that
track. When off, the track appears unfiltered in the Composite window and in the rendered
output. In the following example, a Directional Blur filter is applied to the background track
and filter visibility is turned off to speed previews.
Working with Masks
A powerful feature when compositing is the ability to apply an effect to certain channels
(channel masking) or to certain pixels using a mask. A mask is a section of media that
contains an alpha (transparent) channel, which is used to hide part of another image.
Each Shape and Face track contains a Mask track. When you apply a mask to an object, the
object becomes transparent wherever the mask's alpha channel has a value of 0 and remains
opaque wherever the mask's alpha channel's value is 255. Intermediate alpha channel values
produce semi-transparent areas in the object.
Filter Visibility button
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