Video Filters effect on footage

If I capture footage inverted, like from a 35mm adapter, and rotate it twice so it is right side up does the render effect the quality of the footage? it seems it shouldn't, but i'd like to know for sure.
thanks
vince

As any effect, scale or rotation, and you render. There is a quality. Not much but there.

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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.
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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
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I know this seems like an easy question but I am trying to create a sequence in which all of my clips appear as one clip so that I can fade a video effect in and out over the course of a a few minutes. I thought the answer was by nesting the files but when I do this there doesn't seem to be a way to access the viewer's filter controls to alter the amount of the effect that I want. I click on the nest and it sends me to the original sequence in which it only allows me to alter video filters clip by clip. Please let me know what I should be doing instead. Thanks in advance.

If you NEST the footage then if you CONTROL click on the nest you can select OPEN IN VIEWER. But personally I hate nesting...very messy. I would Mark IN, and OUT in the range you want, then export a Quicktime Movie, self contained...then reimport that.
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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.

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Hi, was wondering if someone could help me pls! I am doing a title sequence for a charity cabaret I was involved in organising, had it filmed and now Im editing it together. Im doing it up like the Saturday Night Live titles (big fan!) I've used footage I have taken from around London of theatres etc. mucked around with them in photoshop freezeframed them taken out the original theatre signs and replaced them with either pictures or strobed video footage. Im doing one of them in Picadilly Circus, bit fiddly, I want to try and mimic the video screen effect that you get. What I mean is the small lines that make up a video screen, so it looks vaguely connected to the picture. I;ve tried some filiters, but none of them look good. Halftone kind of works but its in black and white, I want to keep it in colour. I have tried doing a texture screen but the shapes dont seem to work at all. I hope Ive explained myself well! Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks!

Just came up with an idea - take the stripes generator, rotate it, put a compound blur on it and feed that with the image you want to do the line-screen with, then put a threshold on that and voilá!
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Is this what you had in mind?
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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.
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I'm sort of new to FCP, and have a question about filters.
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http://www.watchmojo.com/blogs/images/twilight_1.jpg
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Main Menu/Effects/Video Filters/Color Correctio/Color Corrector 3way - lower the 'Sat'. (chroma saturation)
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http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/basic_pleasantvillelook.html
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Probably asking too much, but seems like there should be a way to do this. If there isn't I can't imagine my situation is novel by any means - might be a great feature to offer.

If you're good with FXScript you can make your own based upon the filters used.
If you're not, like me, make a stack in a bin in the browser and save it in the favorites folder, or where ever. Name the bin something useful and then put the filters you've used, in operational order, in the bin. Then rename the filters beginning with 001 as when you reopen Final Cut Pro, all filters will reorder back to alphanumeric order.
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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
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[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)
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Opening video filter: [scale]
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[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)
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Video filters not working anymore in FCE 3.5.1

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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.
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