Effect catalog

Every video effect of the editor, grouped and ordered like the + Add Effect list. Click a card to open the effect’s page. How to add, compare, reorder and animate effects: Using effects.

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• BrightnessLightens or darkens the mid-tones while black and white stay where they are.
• ContrastAdds punch: deeper shadows and brighter highlights on a soft S-curve that never burns out.
• ExposureChanges the amount of light, like a camera's exposure: +1 doubles the light, −1 halves it.
• LevelsChooses which tone becomes black, which becomes white and how bright the middle is.
• SaturationMakes colours stronger or weaker, from black and white to rich and glowing.
• VibranceA gentle saturation that strengthens pale colours a lot and strong colours and skin only a little.
• TemperatureMakes the light warmer or cooler, like the white balance of a camera.
• Hue ShiftTurns every colour around the colour wheel, so orange can become green and pink yellow.
• InvertTurns the picture into its negative: dark becomes light, light becomes dark, and every colour becomes its opposite.
• PosterizeReduces the picture to a few flat tones, like a screen print or a poster.
• ThresholdTurns the picture into pure black and white: everything brighter than Level becomes white, the rest black.

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• Box BlurAverages a square around every pixel: a graphic softness in which small lights turn into flat squares.
• Gaussian BlurA smooth, even softening, like a lens out of focus.
• Motion BlurSmears the picture in one direction, as if the camera or the subject moved fast while the shutter was open.
• Radial BlurBlurs the picture around a centre point: Zoom streaks it outward from the middle, Spin turns it in circles.
• Zoom BlurStreaks the picture outward from a centre point, as if the camera rushed in while the shutter was open.
• SharpenBrings out detail and crisp edges in soft footage, without the thick bright and dark outlines of strong sharpening.

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• GlowMakes the bright parts of the picture shine with a soft halo, like light blooming in a lens.
• SheenA band of light that sweeps across the layer, the classic shine over a logo or a title.
• VignetteDarkens the edges and corners so the eye goes to the middle of the frame.
• Edge DetectTurns the picture into its outlines: bright lines where things meet, dark everywhere else.
• AcuarelaPaints the picture as a watercolour, with flat washes of colour and the grain of the paper.
• Rom1Watery smoke: bright parts of the picture leave trails that drift along slow, invisible currents and fade.

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• Color WheelPaints a hue wheel: the colours go round the centre and reach full strength at the rim.
• Perspective GridA glowing floor grid that runs to a vanishing point and scrolls towards the viewer: the classic retro stage floor.
• Stick FigureA posable stick figure for choreography sketches, storyboards and animated characters.

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• Lens CorrectionRepairs what a camera lens does to a picture: bowed lines, coloured fringes along hard edges and dark corners.
• Guided PerspectiveStraightens walls and buildings that lean because the camera was tilted, from lines you draw on the photo.
• AI Edge FillFills the empty edges a lens or perspective correction leaves on a still photo with AI-made scenery.
• Fisheye LensThe rounded look of an ultra-wide fisheye lens: the middle comes closer and straight lines bend towards the edges.
• Bulge & PinchSwells a round area of the picture like a lens bump, or squeezes it together.
• TwirlWinds the picture into a spiral around a centre point, strongest in the middle.
• WaveRipples the picture with smooth, travelling waves, from a faint heat shimmer to a funhouse wobble.
• KaleidoscopeFolds a slice of the picture into mirrored wedges around a centre, like looking through a kaleidoscope.
• MirrorReflects one half of the picture onto the other for perfect symmetry, with a seamless mirror line.
• RGB SplitShifts the red and blue colour layers apart, like a misprinted poster, a cheap lens or a glitching screen.
• Crystal GlassLooks at the picture through cut glass: a grid of facets that each bend it a little.
• Glass DispersionSplits the colours in small cells, as if seen through rippled glass.
• Film PrismFilm shot through a cheap lens or a glass prism: edges gain soft rainbow fringes under a fine, living grain.
• HoloLays a holographic foil over the picture: rainbow bands that bend with its tones.

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• PixelateRebuilds the picture from squares, each in the average colour of what it covers.
• Block MosaicRebuilds the picture as a tiled wall: small tiles mixed with larger ones, separated by grout lines.
• BlockifyRebuilds the picture from square blocks in a few flat colours, like an old computer game.
• Quadtree ZoomSplits the picture into square tiles, small where there is detail and large where it is flat.
• Scatter MosaicBreaks the image into tiles that sample from randomly jittered, drifting positions.
• Pixel PosterPixelates the image into blocks and posterizes each to a few color levels.
• Pixel SortSorts short runs of pixels by brightness, so bright areas break into fine sideways streaks.
• VoronoiBreaks the picture into irregular cells like cracked or stained glass, each filled with one colour and edged with a thin light line.

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• HalftonePrints the picture as a grid of round dots that grow in the dark parts, like a newspaper photo or a pop-art poster.
• Pattern HalftoneHalftone screen of circle, diamond or line marks sized by image darkness, in Ink on Paper.
• DitheringTurns the picture into big pixels of a few flat colours in a checked pattern, like an early computer screen.
• Dither StudioReduces the image to two ink colors using a selectable dither pattern.
• RisoPrints the picture in two inks of fine dots on cream paper, a little off register, like a risograph.
• Riso GlowA two-ink riso print whose bright ink glows and slowly breathes, like fluorescent ink.
• Paper PrintPrints the picture in one ink on paper, made of a fine grain, like an old mezzotint or a photo in a book.
• Tone GeometryReplaces the image with a grid of squares, circles or triangles sized by darkness, in Ink on Paper.

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• CrosshatchDraws the picture with crossing pen lines: more directions and heavier strokes where it is darker.
• Vector EngravingDraws the picture with rows of wavy engraved lines: heavy and deeply waved where it is dark, fine and almost straight where it is light.
• ContourDraws iso-contour lines where brightness crosses Iso Level, in Line color on Paper.
• Contour MapTurns the picture into a map of its own light: bands from dark to light, like the height zones of a hiking map, with a fine contour line on every edge between two bands.
• OutlineTurns the image into an edge drawing.
• Wave LinesRedraws the picture as wavy lines on a plain background, a graphic line-art look.
• Drift LinesCuts the picture into thin bands that slide back and forth in a slow wave.

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• EmbroideryCovers the image in wavy animated thread rows tinted with the Ink color for a knitted fabric look.
• Kilim CarpetOverlays a woven diamond-and-stripe carpet pattern in two colors, shaded by image brightness.
• Cross StitchRenders the image as X-shaped cross stitches on Paper-colored fabric.
• Stitch PosterCombines character art with cross-stitch X marks that get denser in dark areas over a paper-tinted background.

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• ASCIIRebuilds the picture from characters chosen by brightness: classic ASCII art in the picture's own colours.
• ASCII GhostASCII art whose characters cycle over time and leave fading ghost trails.
• Glyph MatrixRebuilds the picture from characters that keep rolling on to their neighbours, in diagonal waves.
• Symbol MatrixRebuilds the picture from small signs that twinkle: each cell swaps its sign at its own moment and breathes.
• Retro MatrixTurns the picture into glowing text on an old computer screen that slowly scrolls upwards.
• Matrix RainLets glowing code rain down the picture, and the figure appears in the falling characters.
• Grid GlyphRebuilds the picture from characters, each in its own ruled box, like a type case or a table of figures.
• Number FieldRebuilds the picture from figures in a few flat colours, like a picture to paint by numbers.
• Pixel CodeWrites the picture in code: zeros and ones, denser and lighter where the picture is bright.
• Word MosaicBuilds the image from rows of characters joined by thin connector strokes in brighter areas so they read like words.
• InscribeDraws characters only along brightness edges over a darkened image, like text etched into the outlines.
• Dither TextCharacter art dithered with a checkerboard threshold and flickering noise so glyphs show mostly in brighter cells.
• Data HatchingMixes cycling characters with diagonal hatching that thickens in darker areas.
• Dither GlowRenders glowing neon characters with soft cell halos, colored from Dark to Light by brightness.
• Contour TypePlaces numeric characters along brightness contour bands and edges, like a typographic topographic map.
• Brand GeneratorBlock-glyph art whose characters shift in concentric rings around the center, framed by a border, for a logo-like pattern.
• Tag PillsPlaces each character inside a faint rounded pill, like a cloud of UI tags, with glyphs cycling over time.
• Creative UI CollageTurns the image into boxed UI-like cells with characters, borders and cursor dots that shuffle over time.

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• Analog Signal LabSends the picture through a simulated PAL television chain: antenna, video tape and tube TV.
• CRT ScreenTurns the picture into an old tube TV: glowing lines, fine red, green and blue stripes and a curved screen.
• ScanlinesLays fine horizontal lines over the picture, like an old TV or computer monitor.
• Film GrainAdds the fine, living texture of film.
• GlitchA broken digital signal: rows tear sideways, blocks jump and the colours split, in short bursts.
• Glitch GridRandomly jumps grid cells sideways in flickering bursts for a blocky digital glitch.
• Block DissolveBreaks an object into blocks of different shapes, like a product render dissolving in a data glitch.
• Block SilhouetteTurns the picture into a flat two-colour silhouette on a block grid, like a neon poster.
• Data HUDDraws a measurement overlay over the object, like a product render under analysis.
• Pixel Sort BandsA pixel sorter whose streaks grow with Progress.
• Block CloudSolid colour blocks on a grid that gather in drifting clouds and clear away as Progress falls.
• Flow MoshThe picture flows along its own contours in whole cells, like a datamosh: colours stream along the edges and in one drift direction, cells copy cells, some race ahead and leave copies behind, rows slip sideways.
• Ribbon ScanRolls soft horizontal ribbons down the picture that push it sideways, like a wobbling video signal.
• Memory LeakShows bytes the editor's video decoder left in memory as pixels: real data, not noise, for databending glitches.

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• Chroma KeyMakes a green or blue screen transparent, so a performer can stand in front of any background.
• Slit ScanShows every part of the frame from a different moment, so movement smears and folds through the picture.
• Time StackShows delayed copies of a moving video clip at once, like a long-exposure photo of a dance.
• Motion TrailsLeaves fading light streaks behind everything that moves, like a dancer turning under a spotlight.

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• Face CablesRopes that hang between points of a face and swing with gravity, wind and every head movement, like cables plugged into the performer.
• Hand ParticlesAdds drifting glowing particles around tracked hands in the Overlay color.
• HUD TrackerOverlays a sci-fi HUD with a corner-bracket target box around the tracked subject.
• CCTVTurns footage into greenish monochrome security-camera video with scanlines, noise and a target box around the tracked subject.
• Subject HighlightSpotlights the tracked subject by keeping areas around face, body and hand landmarks bright while dimming the rest.
• Tracked SceneDraws tracked face landmarks as dots connected by lines in the Overlay color, like a motion-capture mesh.
• StardustScatters sparkling star particles in the Overlay color around the tracked landmarks, or a ring around the subject.
• Rain RevealPours falling streaks of the Overlay color over the scene.

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• Voxel ReliefBuilds the picture out of small blocks in 3D: bright parts rise, dark parts stay low.
• Splat ExplorationStylizes a Gaussian splat clip by layering the splat with stretched light streaks, drifting particles and a wireframe surface mesh.
• Toy BricksRebuilds the image from staggered, beveled toy bricks, each filled with one color.
• Pixel Particle DisintegrateThe picture breaks into small particles that blow away, as the clip's exit.
• FlockingA swarm of birds, fish or sparks that moves by itself in 3D, with real depth, above the clip.
• WeaveDraws threads of yarn in 3D: a net that weaves itself in, or a knitted jellyfish with pulsing ribbons.