Effects and Filters are driving me nuts .

I've just started using Final Cut Express ( current version) and have decided I could use a good tutorial. If anyone has a favorite I'd appreciate the tip. In the mean time , one thing has been driving me crazy. When I'm viewing a clip, in either the viewer or the canvas, and want to apply a filter, FCE doesn't seem to allow one to view the filter adjustment in real time. At least not all filter adjustments. Brightness/ Contrast and Gamma are two examples. When I select ethier of these from the Video Effects pull down menu, they are simply added to the filter tab of the viewer. To make an adjustment, I select the filter TAB, which closes the viewer, and I can then make adjustments. Unfortunately, I can't see the effect until I select the video TAB. Since every adjustment effects every othere adjustment, I want to see the change on the video as I adjust, without the need to TAB back and forth between Filters and Video. Please tell me I'm doing something wrong and that there is a simple solution. I want to keep both TABs open at the same time. Regards Herb

You do know that all those tabs in the Viewer can be pulled off into their own separate windows, don't you? Just put the mouse cursor on a tab, hold down the mouse button, and drag the tab off to one side where it will stand alone in its own window. When you click that window closed, it will once again become a tab on the Viewer.
Thus, for example, you can double-click a clip on the Timeline up into the Viewer window, and then drag the Motion tab off the Viewer window so that it becomes its own window. Then whatever you do in the Motion tab's window, you can watch to see how it affects the video in the Video tab.
A big monitor, or two of them, are helpful when you get a bunch of these windows open.
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