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Creating Colour Warper Soft Effects

Use the Colour Warper soft effect to colour correct elements directly on the timeline.

You can apply colour corrections with the Colour Warper tool from the Colour Correction quick menu or the Colour Correction Editor. Access the Colour Warper from the Colour Correction quick menu to make basic colour corrections. Access the Colour Warper from the Colour Correction Editor for more control over the Colour Correction soft effect.

With the soft effect preferences, you can also define which colour correction tool (Colour Corrector or Colour Warper) is applied by default. See Colour Corrector.

To access the Colour Warper from the Colour Correction quick menu:

1. Select the element to which you want to apply the colour correction.
2. Click the CC soft effect button.
3. Click CC.

   The Colour Warper quick menu appears.

4. Modify the values for black level, white level, hue, saturation, and gamma.

To access the Colour Warper soft effect from the Colour Correction Editor:

1. Select the element to which you want to apply the colour correction.
2. Click the CC soft effect button.
3. Double-click the element or click E beside the soft effect button.

   The Colour Correction Editor appears.

4. Click CC.

   The Colour Warper editor appears. In the Preferences menu, you can specify whether the Colour Corrector or the Colour Warper editor is shown by default in the Colour Corrector soft effect menu. When a Colour Correction soft effect is applied, the selected menu appears in the editor.

   Use the Basics, Selective, and Subsetups menus to apply colour corrections to the selected element. See Colour Warper.