Joe’s Soft Spot blurs the image inside or around a user-specified spot. The spot’s size and softness can be adjusted and the spot itself can either contain the blur or blur everything outside it. The resulting effect is similar to a photographic soft spot filter such as the Tiffen Center Spot filter.
Example Images
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| Blur: | 20 |
| radius: | 150 |
| edge: | 150 |
| mode: | Normal, 100% |
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| Blur: | 30 |
| radius: | 175 |
| edge: | 0 |
| mode: | Normal, 100% |
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| Blur: | 40 |
| radius: | 15 |
| edge: | 80 |
| mode: | Normal, 100% |
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| Blur: | 5 |
| radius: | 220 |
| edge: | 200 |
| mode: | Multiply, 100% |
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The Aspect slider can be used to tweak the soft shape vertically or horizontally. For other angles, see Joe’s Soft Ellipse.
Joe’s Soft Effects
There are four different soft effects included with Joe’s Filters bringing a wide range of soft filtering to Final Cut Pro. Each plugin’s offers different shapes for more creative freedom.
Controls
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Blur (0 - 250)
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Amount to blur the affected portion of the image.
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Origin
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The centerpoint of the effect circle.
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Radius (0 - 500)
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The radius of the effect circle.
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Edge Soften (0 - 200)
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The softness of the blur-circle’s edge. A value of zero results in a hard-edged circle.
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Gaussian
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This setting determines the falloff of the gradient’s edge. I think Gaussian looks more natural, so I made it on by default.
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Invert
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Reverses the affected area between a soft spot and a soft circular frame.
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Aspect (0.1 - 10)
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Defines the effect aspect ratio. Values less than one skew vertically, values greater than one skew horizontally. This amount is multiplied by the sequence aspect ratio, so a value of 1 is round no matter what aspect ratio is being used in the sequence.
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Mode, Opacity
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Composite controls to specify how to apply the blurred image back onto the original.
Feeds