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Accessing the Processing Menu

Use the Processing menu to apply basic commands and filters to clips. You can create visual effects, generate mattes, and enhance image quality. You can also generate s or noise.

To access the Processing menu, click the Processing button in the Main menu.

The Processing commands are described as follows.

Filter
  Applies effects to a clip such as textures, blurring, edge detection, embossing, sharpening, or a combination of effects. You can use the filters supplied with Flame or you can create a custom filter. See Image Filters.
Average
  Uses an image averaging function to add motion blur to a clip. See Simulating the Motion Blur of a Moving Object.
Compound
  Removes noise from a static image by compressing several frames into a single frame. See Creating Compound Images.
Flip
  Flips the frames in a clip horizontally, vertically, or both horizontally and vertically. See Flipping Images.
Logic Ops
  Accesses the Add, Subtract, Multiply, Max/Lighten, Min/Darken, Screen, Overlay, Hard Light, Soft Light, Difference, and Exclusion modes, as well as various other Boolean operations. Use these modes to combine two source clips by applying the selected operation to their colour components. See Using Logical Operations.
Difference
  Generates a matte clip from two clips that contain the same background but different foreground elements. See Generating a Difference Matte.
Auto Matte
  Generates a high-contrast matte from a clip. See Using the Auto Matte Command.
Batch
  Opens the Batch module, which lets you build a process tree of connected tasks. The result of one task is used as the input of the next task. You can preview the result at any point in the process tree, and modify or delete any task without affecting the other tasks in the tree. See Batch Processing.
DeGrain
  Removes grain from clips originating from film. Removing grain from a clip can make compositing processes such as keying easier to perform. See Removing Grain from a Clip.
ReGrain
  Restores grain to clips from which you removed grain, thereby restoring the grainy look of film. You can also add grain to video footage that you want to composite more convincingly with other grainy clips. See Adding Grain to a Clip.
Monochrome
  Generates a monochrome copy of a clip. See Creating a Monochrome Clip.
Negative
  Generates a negative copy of a clip. See Creating a Negative Clip.
Colour Correct
  Adjusts the colours in a clip. Options include:

- Adjusting the gamma, luma (brightness), contrast, hue, and saturation
- Colour balancing
- Rewiring the RGB channels
- Creating colour curves to accurately remap the colour values for different colour models of an image

See Colour Corrector.

Posterise
  Produces a posterised copy of a clip by reducing the number of luma and chroma levels in the clip. See Modifying the Luma and Chroma of a Clip.
Coloured Frame
  Generates clips of identical frames of a solid colour, a two or four colour gradient, noise, or colour bars. See Creating Coloured Frames.

#### Topics in this section

- Previewing Results for Processing Commands