Creative tools
Effects and looks
Apply quick Looks, stack GPU effects, import LUTs, and isolate corrections.
Add and manage effects
- Select a visual clip and find Creative tools in Properties.
- For video, image, GIF, or composition clips, choose Looks, select a category and preset, then adjust Intensity. Selecting the active Look again removes it.
- Choose Effects, then use Add Effect to search or pick from a category. You can also add built-in Presets or your own saved presets.
- Reorder the stack with Move up and Move down — order changes how effects combine.
- Disable, reset, or remove an effect from its panel; numeric parameters can be keyframed.
The effect catalog
| Category | Effects |
|---|---|
| Color | Brightness, Contrast, Exposure, Saturation, Vibrance, Hue Shift, Temperature, Levels, Curves, Color Wheels, Gradient Map, LUT |
| Blur | Gaussian, Box, Motion, Radial, Zoom |
| Distort | Pixelate, RGB Split, Twirl, Wave, Bulge/Pinch, Kaleidoscope, Mirror, Fluted Glass, Ripple Glass, Glass Mosaic, Blocks, Droste, and more |
| Stylize | Vignette, Film Grain, Sharpen, Glow, Scanlines, CRT, VHS, Halftone, Dither, ASCII, Ink, Pixel Sort, Block Glitch, Color Glitch |
| Keying | Chroma Key (green- and blue-screen removal) |
Color inputs and the eyedropper
- Every color control accepts a hex value; type it directly into the field (it updates the preview as you go).
- Where transparency is supported, the field takes 8-digit hex (
#rrggbbaa) and the picker adds an alpha slider. - Click the eyedropper (pipette) to sample a color from anywhere in the app or preview; a magnifier loupe follows the cursor so you can land on the exact pixel, then click to apply.
Use quick Looks
- Looks are ordinary editable
gpu-color-wheelsgrades, not baked image overlays. - Correct, Cinematic, Film, Modern, and Mono categories keep the picker compact while exposing distinct starting points.
- Intensity interpolates from the neutral grade to the selected Look, so reducing it does not fade the whole clip.
- Applying, changing intensity, and removing a Look use the same undo and auto-keyframe paths as other effect edits.
LUTs and isolated corrections
- Add the LUT (.cube) effect, choose Import .cube LUT, then set Intensity to blend it in.
- Secondary Qualifier keys a correction to a range of hue, saturation, and luminance.
- Power Window limits a correction to an ellipse or rectangle mask with feather and invert.
- Add an adjustment layer to grade or apply effects to every clip on the tracks below it.