Video Effects Filters

As an integrated effects application, RED has had two choices: provide features that are otherwise missing from host applications, and improve on features that they do offer. Red has in fact done both.

In addition to the filters already described, RED delivers dozens of compositing filters with comprehensive controls for Blurs, Color Corrections, Distortions, Displacement Maps, Particles, Lights, and Keying. Each can be applied as a standalone adjustment layer, as a downstream (post-transformation) filter, or as an upstream (pre-transformation) filter, easily combined with other filters.

RED also offers support for many Adobe® After Effects™ format plug-ins which can be applied through the filter menu just like native Red filters, the only option most editors have for using these compositing filters in their editing applications.

Here's a closer look at the filters introduced in RED

BCC Dust and Scratches
Allows you to remove unwanted dust and scratches from an image.

BCC DeNoise
Removes unwanted pixel noise from an image. This is especially useful when working with archival materials.

BCC Fast Blur
Emulates the look of shooting in soft focus or with lens diffusion. It also allows you to blur the horizontal and vertical components of the image separately. The functionality is similar to Red's existing Blur filter, but uses a refined algorithm that speeds rendering approximately 20 to 40 percent.

BCC Glow Edges
Is designed for use with masks or images that include an alpha channel. It applies a stroke or glow to the contours of the alpha channel or mask.

BCC Match Grain
Provides sophisticated analysis of the grain in source footage and applies it to composited footage or graphic elements for a seamless blend. In most cases, the matching is automatic, although the filter includes powerful, easy-to-use tools for customizing the results. This high-end compositing feature has never been available to most NLE editors before.

BCC DeGrain
Is also an exceptionally sophisticated yet easy-to-use filter that carefully analyzes an image and removes grain without degrading image quality or detail.

BCC Light Wrap
Is designed to reflect a background image over and around the edges of another image in the form of a border or stroke to create a more realistic composite.

BCC Motion Blur
Creates a realistic blur on the motion in an image, simulating the effect of shooting a moving object on film. The blur is most pronounced when the object moves quickly and more subtle when it moves slowly. Motion blur is not visible if the image is static. You can use an image in the timeline as a source for motion and then apply the motion from the selected image to the filtered track.

BCC Radial Blur
Creates a blur around a specific point, simulating the affect of a zooming or rotating camera. For a Spin blur, which applies blurs in circles around the center point, the Amount value indicates the degree of rotation. For a Zoom blur, which applies blur that radiates out from the center point, the Amount value specifies the degree of radial blurring.

BCC Spiral Blur
Creates a blur or smear that appears as though it is spiraling toward the center of the image.

BCC Wire Remover
Removes wires and rigs from an image, using three different methods: blending pixels from the sides of a defined area, creating a mask from one area to cover another, and cloning one area to cover another. The clone source may be offset in space, from other parts of the frame, or in time, from other frames in the timeline.

BCC Z-Blur
Emulates a rack focus effect where the focal plane moves between a near and far plane. This is most noticeable in real life with a long focal lens. The near and far planes in the filter define the area of the image along the Z axis that is blurred. The area between the planes remains sharp. With this filter, you can set a channel from the image clip, and then use that channel to control the racking focus blur.

RED Filters

Blurs (13 filters) Including Gaussian, basic and directional blurs, with Unsharp Mask. Exceptional flexibility and clear rendering.

Color correction (13 filters) Including Correct Selected Color for fast, one-click spot color correction. HSL, Shift Channel, Tritone, and custom posterization filters.

Distortion (13 filters) Including Displacement maps, vector displacement, polar displacement, Bulge, Ripple, Wave, Bevel and Burnt Film.

Keying (19 filters) Including exceptionally powerful keying: Chroma, Luma and RGB difference Keyers with spill suppression. Clean Up Alpha includes choke matte, spread, and gain. Fast, flexible alpha channel creation with Make Alpha filter.

Lights (5 filters) Simulated extrusions, bump maps, and user-defined gel and matte effects. Adjust and animate light intensity, color, opacity, specular highlights, apply mode and XYZ positioning.

Motion (3 filters) Corner Pin Tracker, Motion Tracker, Motion Stabilizer. Four trackers per layer, up to 1/256th subpixel accuracy

Natural (7 filters) Including Clouds, Comet, Fire, Rain, Snow, Sparks, Stars.

Noise Filters (8 filters) Including Noise maps, Scatterize, Mosaic, and custom channel-based noise.

Particles (4 filters) 2D and 3D particles, image shatter, Particle System.

Time Filters (10 filters) Including Velocity Remapping, Temporal Blur and Optical Flow. Smooth, fast rendering of easily constructed effects.

Pixel Chooser™ Built-in masking tools for filters. Apply filters based on any pixel or channel attribute.

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