| You apply a video filter in one of two ways, similar to the way you applied transitions. You can drag it from the Video Filters bin in the Effects tab directly to a clip in the Timeline. Or you can select the clip in the Timeline, and choose a filter from the Effects menu. But unlike transitions, which are applied to an edit point, filters are applied to the body of the clip. Filters can be applied to a clip in the Viewer or in the Timeline. In this exercise, to acquaint you with some of the filters used to create style, you will apply a different filter to each clip in the Without Filters sequence. Each of these filters can be modified, which you will do in the next exercise. 1. | Move the playhead to the first clip, CU pan starting line. Select this clip.
As with transitions, parking the playhead on the clip allows you to see in the Canvas how that clip is changed as you apply a filter.
| 2. | Choose Effects > Video Filters, and drag your pointer through some of the categories in the submenu.
As with transitions, each filter category has a submenu of options. Based on the names of the filters, you can anticipate that some might add an interesting visual effect to a clip, whereas others might be used to correct images.
| 3. | To apply a filter to the selected clip in the Timeline, choose Effects > Video Filters > Stylize > Find Edges. Play the clip.
The Find Edges filter creates an effect of extreme contrast that outlines the edges of the image in the clip.
Look at the Timeline ruler area. If an orange render bar appears above this clip, the clip will play in real time but may drop frames along the way. If the render bar is red, the clip must be rendered to view it in real time. You can also press Option-P to preview the effect but not in real time.
NOTE When you apply a filter in the Timeline, you are not changing the master clip in the Browser or the media file on your hard drive; you are changing only the sequence clip. | 4. | To add a filter to the next clip, click the Effects tab in the Browser, display the contents of the Video Filters bin, and then the Distort bin.
NOTE All filter icons look the same regardless of how a specific filter affects a clip. 
| 5. | Drag the Pond Ripple filter to the second clip in the sequence, race begins, but don't release the mouse.
When you use the drag-and-drop approach to applying a filter, you see a brown selection outline around the entire clip.
| 6. | Release the filter, and play the clip.
| 7. | Move the playhead to the third clip, BS over hill, and select it. Choose Effects > Video Filters > Stylize > Solarize, and play the clip.
This is another filter that changes the look or style of a clip.
| 8. | Select the fourth clip, lots of bikers over hill, and choose Effects > Video Filters > Perspective > Mirror. Play the clip.
This effect splits the action with one side mirroring the other.
| 9. | For the last three clips, apply the following filters by using either the Effects tab drag-and-drop approach, or by choosing an option from the Effects menu:
| Border > Bevel | | Stylize > Replicate | | Stylize > Diffuse |
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