Sharpen Settings

DGates wrote on 7/29/2005, 4:15 AM

Is it just me, or are there really only 3 sharpen settings? Light, Medium and High? Even though there is a slider for amounts between these settings, it doesn't work. Sometimes I need half the sharpness of the light setting, but it doesn't allow me to do it.

I'm using V5. Does V6 allow such increment settings beyond just 3?

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Grazie wrote on 7/29/2005, 5:25 AM

I just fired up V5. Er .. tell me, can you actually see a slider? This gives increments down to 1000% of the WHOLE value? Can you see it?

Click on the Slider Button and if you have/use a mouse wheel and hold down the Ctrl button you get increments of 1/1000. OR you can use the UP and DOWN arrows for the same incremental changes.

Grazie

GlennChan wrote on 7/29/2005, 6:48 PM

Grazie, that holding-down-the-CRTL-button to get smaller increments is a very useful tip. For me, it lets me adjust the offset slider in the color corrector without huge steppy increments. Thanks!

RichMacDonald wrote on 7/31/2005, 10:59 AM

IMHO, best answer is never to use the sharpen filter at all. Use the convolution filter instead, as it gives you far more control. A number of posts here in the past. Search on RichMacDonald/unsharp mask/convolution filter. Basically, insert a convolution kernel filter and select "sharpen" from the drop down. Then alter the middle value to taste: Lower is more extreme and higher is less, although certain low values will turn it haywire. For even more control, duplicate the normal clip on a lower track and vary the opacity of the filtered clip.

mjroddy wrote on 7/31/2005, 1:31 PM

I have much to learn...
What is Sharpen (or the convolution kernel) used primarily for?

DGates wrote on 7/31/2005, 4:35 PM

Thanks folks. Good tips.

I use sharpen just to tweak footage that might be a tad blurry.