c_major wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, it would be a good idea to save effect chains as presets.
I would like to point out very important diffrence between saving chains as presets and coloring presets.
Yes, from coders point of view, all coloring presets are just combination of effects chain, but end-users like me, for example, do not know at all what combination of effects and with what settings should I apply to get movie look style
the diffrence is in motivation
1) saving chains as presets - it is motivation to save time. this is for people who know to make movie look style with combination of effects
2) but coloring presets built by your specialits - it is motivation to get result without knowlege in using effects like hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, gamma, color balance and so on. this is for people like me, who want to get movie look style by choosing option - apply movie look filter
for example, there are instagram photo fillters
I do tell you the truth, that I just do not know to make all these effects by combination of simple effects like hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, gamma, color balance and so on
but I can use these "presets" which was made by professionals who work in instagram, and they created 15 "presets" (filters, effects - you may call it as you want) and I just chose one of 15 filters and I love it
yes, professionals can get more great look with settings of each parameter, but press button and get instant movie look effect is that simple users dream of
so,
the idea is that "move look effect" is not a preset of effect chain, it is a part of a chain
for example, I want to apply "movie look effect" and after that i want to increase saturation, and decrease contrast, that it a chain of 3 effects
PS. by the way, for all the time of using VideoPad I always was dreaming about standard layers effects - you know burn, dodge, multiply, overlay and so on
for example, I add effect in chain, choose multiply mode and set opacity to 50% and computer creates virtual second layer with the same video and adds it over itself with 50% opacity on multiply algorithm
