Effects and color

Add visual effects, color grades, LUTs, and adjustments to your video. From subtle tweaks to bold creative looks.

Enhance your video with visual effects: color grading, LUTs, blurs, grain, vignette, and more. Apply to individual clips or the whole project.

Effect types

Color and adjustment

  • Adjust — brightness, contrast, saturation, exposure
  • LUT — lookup table color transforms
  • Tone curve — custom contrast curves
  • Color wheels — shadows, midtones, highlights

Stylization

  • Blur — gaussian, directional
  • Film grain — textured analog look
  • Vignette — darkened edges
  • Sharpen — edge enhancement
  • RGB split — chromatic aberration
  • Pixelate — mosaic effect
  • Invert — negative colors
  • Posterize — reduced color depth
  • Glow — bloom effect

Compositing

  • Chroma key — green screen / blue screen
  • Opacity — transparency
  • Blend mode — overlay, screen, multiply, etc.

How to add effects

Via agent:

"Add a slight color grade to match the viral-cut style"

"Apply vignette to the intro"

"Chroma key this green screen clip"

Manually:

  1. Select the clip
  2. Click Effects tab in left panel (or right panel Properties → Effects)
  3. Click Add Effect
  4. Choose an effect from the library
  5. Adjust parameters in the panel

Adjust effect

Control the fundamental look:

  • Brightness — overall lightness
  • Contrast — difference between darks and lights
  • Saturation — color intensity
  • Temperature — warm (yellow) vs cool (blue)
  • Tint — magenta vs green
  • Exposure — EV stops
  • Vibrance — smart saturation (protects skin tones)
  • Hue — rotate color wheel
  • Shadows — lift dark areas
  • Highlights — recover bright areas
  • Whites/Blacks — set pure white/black points

LUT effects

LUTs (Look-Up Tables) apply cinematic color grading:

  • Intensity — blend between original and LUT
  • Built-in presets — included LUT library
  • Custom LUTs — upload .cube files

Chroma key controls

For green/blue screen:

  • Key color — the color to remove
  • Similarity — color range to key
  • Smoothness — edge softening
  • Spill suppression — remove color cast on subject

Per-clip vs. global

  • Per-clip — effect applies to selected clip only
  • Adjustment layer — effect applies to everything underneath

Keyframe animation

Animate effects over time:

  1. Add effect to clip
  2. Move playhead to start frame
  3. Click keyframe button (diamond icon)
  4. Move playhead to end frame
  5. Change parameter value (auto-creates keyframe)
  6. Fine-tune curve in graph editor

Style packs (agent)

Apply complete looks:

"Apply the viral-cut style pack"

"Make this look cinematic with grain and vignette"

"Clean educator look for tutorials"

Style packs apply:

  • Project background
  • Clip effects (LUTs, grain, etc.)
  • Text overlay restyling
  • Overall aesthetic

Tips

  • Order matters — effects apply top-to-bottom; grain before blur is different than blur before grain
  • Copy/paste effects — Cmd/Ctrl+C on clip with effects, then paste on another
  • Effect intensity — subtle often wins; start at 30-50%
  • Match to platform — bold effects for TikTok, subtle for course content
  • Undo freely — every effect is non-destructive

See also

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