FCE Video Filters

Is there a way to blur only a portion of the screen, say a person's face?

http://www.fcpbook.com/Effects5.html

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Need information on FCE video filters

I am in post and have a shot that has the sky as a background. I used a 3CCD camera (DVX-100B) and notice that after a while the sky background really begins to look "hot," meaning it begins to glare around the subject and it's a bit annoying to me at least. This is mainly evident when I watch it on my television, not the laptop.
Is there a video filter or video fix that can bring down this bright, "hot" look? I brought down the opacity already about 15% but wonder if there is more I can do?

You might try using a garbage matte and fiddling with brightness.
There is also a very interesting free filter that Patrick Sheffield wrote called Captain's Blowout Fixer that looks like it could do the job very nicely, lots of control. It was written for FCP and it may also work in FCE.

Video filters not working anymore in FCE 3.5.1

My video filters (i.e. color correction, levels, RGB balance) don't seem to be working anymore. The only things I've done lately are upgrade to 3.5.1 and also OS 10.4.8. I believe this problem started happening after the 10.4.8 upgrade.
I've been working with video for some time, but am relatively new to FCE. My workflow was to doubleclick to open the filter, make the adjustments to the filter settings, then drag the filter to the clip on the timeline. This was working just fine but just doesn't work anymore.
Other things such as transitions work fine. LiveType and Soundtrack also seem fine.
Anyone else have this problem, and how did they correct it? I have a project due tomorrow afternoon and would like to be able to fix ASAP.
Thx in advance.
G5 dual, 23 Apple Cinema Display, 19" ViewSonic widescreen Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Tom,
First:
I did trash my prefs, first thing. However, I might not have gone deep enough with this. I only trashed User > Library > Preferences > com.apple.FinalCutExpress.plist.
I produce a 10-minute weekly announcements DVD and as such have very little downtime for my apps. The project I'm working on now is much more important, although only about 6 minutes, but it's crucial and I didn't want to risk downtime if I screwed up by trashing something else and possibly causing me more work. So I've had a feeling maybe more should have been trashed.
Second:
To better explain my incorrect workflow, I've created some movies you can find here:
http://little-works.com/sepia_ex.html
In this first example, I created an exaggerated color for a sepia tone, something I would never use. If you click the link and go on to the next page, you'll see where I apply that filter to the clip in the timeline (it's actually a still picture, not a video clip), and beside that, you'll see the unchanged result. BTW, I did render that still after I applied the green sepia filter.
What happened when I first installed FCE was that any and all changes I made in this manner immediately presented themselves (in other words, they "worked"). Now I see no change at all.
I burned a rough cut of this project yesterday and it looks fine, but I've worked as an art director for too many years and am very picky! I know it's fine for my audience but a) I know it could look better b) I want it to work right.
I appreciate any and all help on this. I've been a Mac user for over 20 years, but am a newbie to FCE and am learning on the fly. So far my results have been great and very much appreciated by my audience(s), but I want to go much deeper into the program, as I am only touching the tip of the iceberg and don't want to develop bad habits from the get-go!
Thx --
G5 dual, 23 Apple Cinema Display Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Video filters screen setup

Hello All,
Help please...
I have tons of filters/plugins. When I open my video filters screen (from the effects window), I always have to arrange my window so that I can see the majority of the filters. Is there a way to have this setup when launching FCE HD so that I don't have to always re arrange my video filters window?
I have a custom setup that I am using with two monitors. Viewer, Canvas & Browser on one screen and Effects & timeline on my other monitor.

You can make custom window arrangements of course, but they won't leave contents of windows open as I think you'd like. Might I suggest that it's more efficient to access the filters from the Effects menu rather than from the bins in the Effects tab of the browser.

Looking for FCE Video Filter - "Old Movie"

I'm creating a movie where I would like to have the footage look "old"; where the film may be scratched or discolored, maybe even some dropped frames, etc...
I went through all of the video filters on FCE and didn't see anything that got me this effect. (unless I overlooked something or have to use Sepia + ?)
Any recommendations on how to accomplish this?
Thanks for the help!
Power Mac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

It is in the QuickTime filters which you access via :-
File>Export Using QT Conversion>Options>Filter>Special Effects.
There you will find a number of effects including the old film look, which you can customise with hairs, scratches, dust and film fading.
Ian.

Video filters not working when applied to sequence clips

I have looked through the forums and haven't found the solution to my problem. I am having problems with video filters on clips in the timeline. I have footage that needs color correction. In the viewer I created a 3 way filter for one clip, saved it, and applied to all clips in the browser. They all open corrected in the viewer. (I did this because i was reviewing the clips with my client).
When I put the clip in the timeline it does not indicate it needs a render, the filter does not appear on the clip, but when I double click and open the sequence clip in the viewer the color correction tab is there. I've removed attributes and tried again several times, both using the menu with the clip selected, and by doulbleclicking the clip into the viewer and apply the filter there. The tab is always there but the filter does not appear on the clip. It only appears when the process is done to clips from the browser inthe viewer. I've checked the RT for unlimted, I've done a render all video, I've checked settings under the render tab and filters is checked. I've gone into another project and have the same problem in a different project with different clips. I had a recent project where I used a blur effect and it worked fine. My video is DV and my sequence settings are DV NTSC.
I've run out of my ideas and comments from ither threads. What is my next troubleshoot? Should I delete preferecnes? I haven't done that with FCP, can I do it myself or use Rescue? Could that create other problems for me? Any other ideas?
I work in Afghanistan and have no resources here for any Mac support besides books and forums.
Thanks

Hey Catrina
Not sure what the issue is with your application of the 3-Way Color Corrector in the Browser. My guess, is that perhaps you only thought you applied the "saved" instance of the 3-way corrector but instead applied a default neutral instance of the corrector. How did you save the correction you applied to the other instances? A good method is, having applied and tweaked it as needed to a sample clip instance, you can drag a copy of it out of the clip's Filter tab and drop it directly into your Browser window. To check, then double click that Browser instance of the corrector to open it in the Viewer window and see if has the corrections settings as expected and no the default ones. If so, go ahead and drag it to another clip instance in the Browser and then drag that clip to your sequence ... has the correction "stuck" bow? But while we figure it out, for now, why not just apply the saved correction directly to the clips in the sequence? Regarding trashing your preferences ... download Preference Manager from Digital Rebellion. Very straightforward to use.
Cheers
Andy

Mplayer doesn't play anything, could not initialize video filters

When trying to play a video, this is what I get. I've tried changing the video driver, same error
[max@gayforceone ~]$ mplayer capture.avi
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 3, Stepping: 4)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
115 audio & 237 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing capture.avi.
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
Detected NON-INTERLEAVED AVI file format.
VIDEO: [MJPG] 800x600 24bpp 15.015 fps 11713.4 kbps (1429.9 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Name:
Software: guvcview-0.9.5
Comments: Fri Nov 28 06:58:53 2008
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG decoder)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 705.6 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 88200->88200)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 800 x 600 (preferred colorspace: Planar 422P)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Planar 422P as output csp (no 1)
Movie-Aspect is nan:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8
[swscaler @ 0x89d5f50]SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from yuv422p to yuv420p using MMX2
[swscaler @ 0x89d5f50]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 0x89d5f50]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 0x89d5f50]SwScaler: using 1-tap MMX "scaler" for vertical scaling (YV12 like)
[swscaler @ 0x89d5f50]SwScaler: 800x600 -> 800x600
VO: invalid dimensions!
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
VDec: vo config request - 800 x 600 (preferred colorspace: Planar 422P)
VDec: using Planar 422P as output csp (no 1)
Movie-Aspect is nan:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: invalid dimensions!
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
FATAL: Could not initialize video filters (-vf) or video output (-vo).
Exiting... (End of file)

I've tried all the options in gmplayer, they all don't work. I'm assuming the command line carries out the same functions. I've tried a couple (but not all) and they didn't work either.

Displaying FCE Video on TV

Before burning a FCE video onto a DVD, I would like to review it on a Sony Bravia XBR television. The FCE video is on a 17 inch MacBook Pro, which I connected to the Sony television with a DVI-to-HDMI cable. Resolution of the MacBook Pro is set at 1680 x 1050. How do I get the FCE video to play full screen on the television the way a DVD would play full screen?

Is the Bravia mirroring your computer? Then use View>Video>Digital Cinema Desktop.

How to complete FCE video for upload to youtube

Hi Apple Community,
Does any one know how, exactly step by step
how to finish FCE video for SUCCESFUL upload
to youtube? I so appreciate your help.

Check this out.
Note the link to supported
formats. You probably want to give them an h.264 .mov file. If you don't have Compressor, export using QT Conversion. Or download the free MPEG Streamclip and have it do the transcode (in which case you would export from FCE as a QT Movie Current Settings).
Good luck.
Russ

Automating video filters based on audio changes?

Hello,
I'm wondering if there is a non-manual way to automate the parameters of video filters based on increases and decreases in audio track
I'm aware that filter parameters can be modified by hand using keyframes and curves, I'm just wondering if there is someway to have the software make these modifications based on changes in an audio track (or any other parameter).
Thanks,
T

You need Motion …
Here demo Mark&Steve, how audio manipulates a text.
https://youtu.be/m7WTBbx9VNI
You'll find many mor, all demo, how audio can be used to manipulate other values of objects.

FCP crashes when Video Filters folder is double clicked

I edit in FCP 5.0.4 with 2 monitors and like to keep the Video Filters folder open as a separate window along with the Effects folder. However, my custom window layout with this setting has disappeared and when I try to open Video Filters, FCP crashes. I've used FCP Rescue to no avail and have re-installed FCP software.

I am capturing to a Ciprico dual channel U320 array attached to a ATTO UL4D SCSI controller. I don't use the system for these data intensive captures all that often and sometimes I have no problem at all and other times I do. I noticed that the raw movies would play in the quicktime player ok without stalling or dropping frames so the issue seems to be with final cut. The last time I had this problem was with playing back 720p DVCProHD files and it would only play for a few minutes and then give a error message about dropping frames and suggesting lowering the number of audio tracks and changing the RT settings. I am thinking there must be a software conflict. We just installed FCP 6 and this was the first capture I did with it and had the same old problem right off the bat.

FCE video upload forum

Hi
Is there a FCE video upload discussion forum within the Apple website, where members can upload videos or post links to videos uploaded to youtube, myspace, etc? It would be nice to be able to view other peoples work done in FCE for inspiration or provide feedback if they want it or vice versa.
Or is something like that (video upload discussion forum) part of this discussion forum?
Thanks

There is nothing like that provided by Apple. I asked nearly 4 years ago and there have been regular requests from other people.
The most that happens is that occasionally people post links to their videos on Vimeo, YouTube etc.
I agree that it would be nice to have a site dedicated to reasonably well edited videos from Final Cut and iMovie users as opposed to the likes of YouTube submissions which are probably 99% rubbish.

Making a browser tab of video filters

I've forgotten how to do this. I want my video filters to be displayed as list in the browser window (in addition to the pull down menu, of course.)
Thanks!

Are you saying the EFFECTS tab isn't there? Command-5
Are you saying you want the VIDEO FILTERs folder to be a TAB? Click and drag it up to the tab area. Or dbl click to open it as a window and drag it to the TAB area of the browser window.
Good luck,
CaptM

Video filters became disabled. video in timeline reverted back to glowing images. Broadcast safe button does nothing. Black and white went back to color. what happened to my video filters?

video filters became disabled. My timeline now shows video in pre-broadcast safe look. black and white video went back to original color. video filters not responding at all. what happened?

First thing to do is reset your fcp preferences
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2491
Have you done any software updates or installed any new software recently?
What format are your sources and what are your sequence settings?
Here are some other troubleshooting tips
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2591

Video filters for FCP 5.1

Hey everybody-
I'm sort of new to FCP, and have a question about filters.
I've tested out all the video filters in version 5.1, but none of them create the effects I am looking for-- little color, almost pale looking.
Am I able to create this effect on FCP, or must I use a filter on my actual camera lens? I'm using a canon xl2...
Below are some shots from movies that replicate the look I'm going for:
http://www.watchmojo.com/blogs/images/twilight_1.jpg
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2007/07/25/atonement460 .jpg
Thanks for your help!

Main Menu/Effects/Video Filters/Color Correctio/Color Corrector 3way - lower the 'Sat'. (chroma saturation)
Here's a great tuturial that expands a bit on the processes involved.
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/basic_pleasantvillelook.html
K

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