ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at and works with Final Cut's filters to create some special effects. Radial Blur, Wind Blur, Zoom Blur, animated borders, all of the Distortion group of filters, garbage mattes, mask shapes, soft edges, widescreen edges, basic 3D, curl, mirror, blink effects, stop-motion blur, and viewfinder all have animate-able properties that can't be reproduced with a simple dissolve. In it each filter has been applied with its default settings to a two-second portion of Dance1, except for the two Color Smoothing filters. The high temporal resolution of NTSC video, giving 60 discrete fields every second, is one of the reasons that video looks like video; but film, which has a lower frame rate and no interlacing, produces a more blurred motion, a softer look that we associate with film. Removing interlacing is the first step toward trying to recreate that ever-popular film look.
