NewBlueFX Mastery: Your Path to Professional Video Editing

Master the NewBlueFX essentials volume one plugins, pixelator, eta, region, scope, selective touch up, and stabilizer to accelerate professional video editing and streamline workflows.

Explore open effects interfaces across editors, compare plugins from different vendors, and master the three core elements: basic feathers, positional controls, and color controls.

Master the open effects interface across cross-platform plugins. Use faders and color wheels to adjust color, position, and pivot points.

Explore how to manipulate colors in open effects using RGB, HSV, HSL, and Lab, learn color wheels, selectors, and the dynamics of white, black, and color mixing.

Explore the open effects color tools from hsv to hsl and lab, mix shadows with the A and B channels, and animate all parameters using the animation timeline and keyframes.

Master color correction workflows using the chrominance wheel, create and edit keyframes on the timeline, and manage grouped versus individual keyframes to control hue and gain across the clip.

Master the open effects interface in NewBlueFX Essentials, learning to manipulate key points and apply linear, smooth, fast, slow fades, holds, and manual splits to shape timeline transitions.

Master the sharp fade in video editing, starting with a jump, slowing in the middle, then speeding up at the end. Apply hold keyframes to create abrupt transitions across plugins.

Learn to pixelate or blur areas with the Pixelator in Open Effects, for static or moving scenes, and animate the center for precise coverage.

Learn to pixelate a targeted area, adjust block size and center, and blur or smooth with a scroll, then save and load presets for multi-layer pixel effects.

Master the Pixelmator plugin to pixelate and blur video areas using adjustable width, height, and block size, with precise placement for multiple instances such as defocus number plates.

Increase block size to control blur and pixelation, then apply selective blurring to obscure moving details while tracking moving objects for clean, professional video edits.

Operate the NewBlueFX Pixelmator plugin to track a moving subject with a Pixelmator mask and keep the blur synced with motion using keyframes.

Learn to animate moving pixelation with masks and blur adjustments, adjust block size, and refine placement using key points on the timeline to anonymize faces.

Mask and blur birds using moving pixelation with masks, track the bird's path via keyframes, and refine motion with linear or smooth fades.

Learn to track a moving bird and apply selective masking to pixelate and vanish it, using linear tracking, mask adjustments, and blur to hide objects in video.

Learn to pixelate moving objects with the Pixelator, track the bird’s path, duplicate the effect, and animate masks with keyframes for precise, professional video editing using NewBlue effects.

Track a moving bird by placing keyframes, syncing the mask with motion, and adjusting points to follow it. Refine with blur and region scope for multi-movement scenes in Pixelmator.

Analyze video regions with the region scope plugin to measure luminance and color using waveform monitor and vectorscope, compare to Vegas scopes, and adjust width, height, and target regions.

Learn to use region scope to analyze and measure color across shots with rgb parade, vectorscope, and histogram, improving color correction and balance.

Master selective touch up in NewBlue effects essentials, defining target areas with crosshairs, adjusting smoothing from 0-100, blending with the original, and using masks with show mask and invert.

Focus on a targeted area using the mask and crosshairs to apply smoothing, adjust blending, and feather edges for a seamless transition within the selected region.

Explore selective touch up with the Blue Effects Essentials plugin, mastering masking, feathering, and curve-based shapes to smooth and enhance footage while preserving the original.

Master selective touch up by drawing masks, shaping areas with curves, and applying feathering and smoothing to blend targeted regions with the background, achieving a natural, soft look.

Master basic masking with selective touch up to track a face as it turns, adjusting mask points for smoothing and blending to preserve hair detail while softening the skin.

Master animated masking to keep the mask synced with a moving face while applying selective skin smoothing and lighting adjustments. Learn adjusting top points and frame-by-frame keyframes for natural results.

Master the new blue effects essentials plugin suite to perform animated face touch ups, adjust masks frame by frame, and preserve hair and facial detail in professional video edits.

Master skin touch ups with animated facial masking, feathered edges, and selective softness, comparing plugin on versus off, while keeping hair outside the mask and prioritizing makeup on set.

Apply masking with selective touch up to animate a moving bandage, following the object and adjusting the mask frame by frame for precise skin and bandage detail.

Master masking techniques for bandage animation using dual masks with four anchor points and feathered edges. Preview and render with ram preview to ensure smooth motion.

Explore how the stabilizer plugin reduces shaky footage by splitting a shot into segments, analyzing motion, and applying default and customized stabilization with slow/fast, center/edge, and motion emphasis controls.

Master advanced stabilization using the New Blue Effect Essentials stabilizer plugin, adjusting camera motion smoothing, rotation, rolling shutter, and border fill with instant analysis and dynamic preview.

Explore NewBlueFX Essentials Volume Two, a cross-platform plugin set compatible with Premiere, Magix, FCP, and Vegas Pro, and learn to install and use the open effects interface for color fixing.

Install NewBlueFX volume two, featuring eight plugins like flash remover, lens correction, selective focus, and video tuner plus, compatible with Vegas Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

Explore how open effects standardizes plugin interfaces across brands, aligning faders and controls while demonstrating with gradient map, fill light, and Hitfilm plugins.

Master the color correction tool with color wheels, master and sub categories, and positional faders for intensity and scaling, plus input values by typing numbers and pressing enter.

Explore essentials volume two plugins in open effects, focusing on color corrector and color wheel adjustments, saturation, brightness, and endpoint concepts, and learn how to use faders, presets, and resets.

Explore color correction in the open effects interface, with color wheels and saturation, gamma, gain, offset. Learn positional control with crosshairs and pivot through dragging or direct input.

Learn to work with colors in the open effects interface of the NewBlueFX Essentials Volume Two, using HSV, HSL, RGB, and lab color methods.

Explore hsv, hsl, and rgb color models, adjust hue, saturation, and lightness to create white, black, and nuanced tones, and compare different mixing methods.

Explore the open effects interface for Vegas Pro, compare hsv, hsl, rgb and lab color spaces, and learn to animate with per-plugin timelines, keyframes, and grouped movements.

Manipulate the OpenCV interface by deleting individual or group nodes and adjusting key points. Apply fades—linear, smooth, fast, slow, or hold—to control color and motion.

Learn to create and adjust aspect ratios with the NewBlue Essentials plugin, manipulating width, height, and centering, applying fit frame, cropping, and black bars for Cinemascope.

Learn to control width, height, and rounding, manage alpha areas and color options, and crop or fit frames while adjusting aspect ratios, then animate transitions with render previews.

Detail by luma in new blue effects essentials volume two on Vegas Pro sharpens edges by adjusting highlights and shadows with strength, halo, and threshold.

Master luminance-based detail with the highlight mask, shadow threshold, and halo controls, applying define clouds and detail by Luma across shots for crisper edges.

Explore defining clouds with Newblue Effects Essential in Vegas Pro, focusing on masking, threshold, and highlights and shadows control to achieve crisper, cleaner reeds.

Master detail by luma to crisp highlights using threshold and highlight masks. Adjust thresholds for blacks and whites to sharpen specific areas while preserving overall image quality.

Enhance dark areas with the detail by Luma tool in NewBlueFX Essentials Volume Two for Vegas Pro, using presets, shadow masks, and threshold adjustments to sharpen shadows.

Explore using a black mask and shadow mask to crisply define darks, adjust thresholds, and selectively sharpen luminance for crisper, more defined edges.

Explore new presets from the essentials pack in Vegas Pro, using the Detail by Luma plugin and Fat crossover to sharpen, balance shadows and highlights, and preview results.

Explore how fat crossover presets lift shadows, adjust hollow strengths, and refine edges using mask weights. Compare silky lows, circulos, cellulose, and nun settings to sharpen blacks and preview results.

Explore the smooth definition preset in blue effects essentials volume two, applying shadow masks, thresholds, and halos to define edges and refine highlights across multiple shots.

Learn how to apply strong shadows with a detail by Luma preset, adjust shadow masks, threshold, and cleanup to balance highlights and create a crisp, painting-like look across shots.

Learn to use Flash Remover Pro to detect and minimize flashes in footage across Vegas Pro and other editors, tweaking gain and gamma to manage bright frames.

Render a new video track as an avi, then apply Flash Remover Pro, adjust brightness, sensitivity, and frames to detect and remove flashes, noting artificial flashes complicate detection.

Explore the lens correction tools in the new Blue Effects Essentials plugin set, adjusting distortion, zoom, and focal center to create or restore lens effects and counter distortion.

Apply lens correction with the reduce fisheye option to correct distorted footage. Adjust focal center, zoom, and distortion to create and balance effects, including picture-in-picture and three-dimensional space animation.

Learn to correct distorted footage in Vegas Pro using Newbluefx essentials volume two lens correction and a workflow of multiple plugins, including crop borders and aspect ratio, to salvage distortion.

Master cross-platform plugins from the new effects essentials, learn the open effects interface, and creatively apply funhouse distortions, color correction, and detail by luma to match blacks across shots.

Discover how lens distortion tools shape creative looks, compare distortion effects with and without correction, and explore practical adjustments like zoom, making the image transparent, and pan and crop.

Explore essential NewBlue FX plugins to correct lenses and apply distortion, including Phantasm, then animate the TV in space effect for dynamic, news-style video inserts.

Explore lens correction animation by combining picture-in-picture transitions, zoom adjustments, and smooth fades across shots using multiple plugins and practical preview techniques.

Explore NewBlue FX essentials vol 2, covering pixel, eta, region, scope, selective touch up, and stabilizer plugins for core video editing tasks.

Install NewBlueFX Essentials Vol 2 and explore the open effects interface across editors, mastering basic feathers, positional controls, color controls, and fader ranges.

Explore the open effects interface across platforms, learning to adjust color wheels, color correctors, and faders, and control positioning with crosshairs, pivot points, and numeric x–y values.

Learn how the open effects color wheels and color spaces work, including RGB, HSV, HSL, and LAB, and explore mixing, adjusting values, and applying precise color correction.

Explore hsl adjustments in open effects, compare hsl with hsv, and learn to use color wheels, animation timelines, and keyframes to control color mixes and shadows.

Learn to create and manage keyframes for chrominance on the color wheel, using cursor-based or crosshair methods, with grouping, hue and gain adjustments, and timeline navigation.

Explore the open effects interface, manipulate key points, and apply linear, smooth, fast, and slow fades to shape the fader progression on the timeline.

Explore the sharp fade in open effects, contrasting it with slow and smooth fades, and learn to use hold, keyframes, and manual changes to control speed.

Learn to use the pixelate plugin in Open Effects to blur faces and plates, and animate pixelation to follow moving subjects with center, width, height, and block size controls.

Learn how to manually pixelate and blur specific areas, adjust block size, center the selection, and apply selective blurring with multiple pixel data instances and presets in NewBlueFX Mastery.

Learn to adjust width, height, and block size with the Pixelmator plugin to pixelate and blur targeted video areas, place effects precisely, and apply multiple instances for privacy-style concealment.

Learn how to apply selective pixelation and blur to project media by adjusting block size, position, and tracking moving objects, with techniques for static shots and moving footage.

Master the NewBlueFX Pixelate plugin for selective pixelation that tracks a moving subject with dynamic blur. Animate a motion-tracked mask on green-screen footage, adjusting size and keyframes for smooth tracking.

Animate a blur mask to track a moving subject along the timeline, adjusting width, height, and placement with keyframes to progressively obscure the face for witness protection.

Master multiple moving pixilation by masking birds, setting keyframes, and aligning movement with the animator; adjust timing with copy-paste key points and compare smooth versus linear fades.

Track moving subjects and apply selective masking to pixelate or hide objects in video, using linear masks, blur, and diffusion to maintain tracking and achieve vanishing effects.

Learn to pixelate moving birds by tracking their path with keyframes, duplicating the pixelator, and masking to vanish a bird from the shot.

learn to pixelate moving subjects by creating key points with masks and keyframes, track motion, and apply controlled blur to keep two birds, or car number plates, in sync.

Learn to use the region scope plugin to analyze specific video areas with vector scope, histogram, and RGB parade, comparing it to Vegas scopes and adjusting target regions.

Explore region scope to measure color across shots using rgb parade, vectorscope, and histogram for informed color correction and balance.

Explore the NewBlue selective touch up plugin, learn to define target areas with crosshairs, adjust smoothing from 0 to 100, and use masks and inversion to refine the result.

Master selective touch up in video editing as part of NewBlueFX Mastery, by isolating a region with masks, adjusting smoothing and blending, and feathering edges.

Master advanced masking techniques using selective touch up, adjusting masks, diffusion, feather, and curve shaping to blend touched-up areas with original footage.

Define the target area with a mask and shape it with curves. Feather the mask and merge the touched-up area with the background for a soft, natural look.

Learn to apply selective touch up to a human face using masking and tracking in NewBlueFX effects, adjusting mask points, smoothing, and blending for natural facial enhancement.

Apply animated masking with face smoothing, moving the mask with the face in sync with the timeline, and adjust the top left and right points for lighting and hair detail.

Master animated touch up using the NewBlue effects essentials plugin, adjusting the mask frame by frame to follow movement while preserving facial and hair detail.

Learn to create animated masks that keep the face in frame while controlling hair outside the mask, using feathering for natural edges and subtle skin tones with a plugin.

Apply selective touch up with masking to follow a moving bandage, using curves and frame-by-frame animation to refine the mask and preserve essential details.

Learn how to perform multiple selective touch ups with dual masks, adjust and feather edges, and animate mask tracking with four control points for smooth, natural results.

Learn to stabilize shaky footage using the NewBlueFX stabilizer, including scene splitting, default stabilization, and iterative analysis to tame camera motion and rolling shutter.

Explore advanced stabilization with camera motion smoothing, rolling shutter, and border fill, using dynamic previews and analysis to optimize footage with the New Blue FX stabilizer.

Explore NewBlueFX essentials volume three for Vegas Pro, featuring eight editing boosts like white balance correction, selective sharpening, and skin blemish removal to improve color and detail.

Discover how to install Essentials Three Volume Three plugins, including Color Fixer Pro, Detail by Chroma, Edge Smoother, and Gamma Corrector, with download steps and compatibility.

Explore the open effects interface and how volume three presents eight plugins across two sets with common presets and auto corrections for cross-software use.

Explore how open effects unify plugin interfaces, compare vendors, and master controls—dropdowns, triangles, positional markers, faders, color pickers, and animation for video editing.

Explore the open effects interface, adjusting faders and controls across global and rays with keyboard, dragging, or mouse wheel to shape brightness, rotation, and scale, noting defaults and negative values.

Master feather controls and color properties, and manage plugin chains—save, load, reorder, and toggle plugins—to see how color and positional effects vary in open effects.

Learn to position effects in open effects using positional markers, crosshair dragging, and x and y inputs to center objects, adjust pivot, and apply color with color wheels and vectorscope.

Explore color correction with Sony color corrector, mastering the color wheel, hue, saturation, and lightness across HSV, HSL, RGB, and LAB to control color strength and tone.

Explore animating with the new blue effects plugins, mastering keyframes, timelines, and synchronized hue shift, intensity, and scale across elements for cohesive motion.

Explore open effects animation by grouping and moving keyframes, deleting them individually or as a group, and animating colors, color band, hue change, and position across multiple videos with fades.

Learn to use Color Fixer Pro from Blue Effects Essentials Volume Three to correct and enhance colors in Vegas Pro, with scopes, sampling, saturation, brightness, film gamma, and presets.

Master white balance by sampling a color and adjusting toward white using the rgb parade, then refine with saturation, brightness, and gamma while watching the histogram.

Learn four color correction techniques using Color Fixer Pro, including sampling whites, balancing tones, adjusting warmth and saturation, then exploring a black-and-white workflow with gamma and filmic contrast.

Adjust rgb levels, saturation, brightness, and gamma to balance highlights and blacks for richer whites. Use filmic gamma and color fixer to create dynamic contrast.

Learn to color correct and boost brightness with Color Fixer Pro, apply film gamma for better contrast, and adjust mid tones, blacks, and saturation for a vivid image.

Explore applying add pop presets within the NewBlueFX workflow, adjust saturation and gamma, and customize blue tones across indoor and outdoor shots for balanced color corrections.

Learn to use the remove blue preset from the Essentials volume three pack in Vegas Pro, shaping warm tones by removing blue, then adjust red, green, gamma, contrast, and sepia.

Learn to fine tune the vibrant preset by adjusting blacks, whites, gamma, contrast, brightness, and saturation across shots, using film gamma and plugin tweaks for balanced, vibrant footage.

Detail by chroma enhances specific image areas using chrominance values. Use the color chooser with HSV, HSL, RGB, or lab modes, and refine with mask and range controls.

Enhance footage with detail by chroma, using masks, range, and sampling color to target specific areas, adjust tonal quality and contrast, and test presets for a crisper, more vivid look.

Enhance video contrast by applying detail by chroma with precise masking and color-targeted adjustments, sharpening blades while keeping the effect aligned to the moving chroma mask.

Adjust strength to sharpen blades and craft a darker, gothic mood, then fine-tune definition and detail by chroma or luma. Use masks and invert to target regions for cinematic impact.

Apply better blue contrast with the detail by chroma plugin in blue effects essentials volume three, using color-based masking to isolate blues and refine edge details.

Master color-based masking to highlight blue jeans and yellow accents with chroma and range controls, and use the stabilizer plugin to manage camera shake.

Learn to use detail by chroma in vegas pro with newbluefx essentials volume three to target colors, highlight the bag, and refine skin tone contrast without pink hue spill.

Discover how to use masking, range controls, and color correction to selectively highlight skin tones, greens, and other elements, balance contrast, soften details, and sharpen overall video quality.

Explore edge smoothing with the edge smoother under the new effects essentials, comparing front smoothing medium and strong, adjust strength, and use change pixels to see which edges are affected.

Apply edge smoother to soften and straighten edges while showing changed pixels to compare original and worked-on footage across shots.

Master gamma correction using the Gamma Corrector plugin in Vegas Pro, exploring gamma lift and drop, expansion and compression with scopes and histograms to guide mid-tones, blacks, and whites.

Explore gamma correction techniques using plugins to lift highlights, manage blacks, and create dramatic, dark atmospheres. Use scopes and creative adjustments to balance contrast and experiment with artistic looks.

Explore the essentials three ultimate pack from NewBlueFX to correct, stabilize, and sharpen video with tools like aspect ratio, auto contrast, color fixer pro, and lens correction.

Master the proportion helper to use grids for composition and balance, with region scope and selective focus, plus sharpen and skin touch up for improved colors and luminescence.

Discover how open effects standards unify plugin interfaces across brands, so blur effects, color correction, and other plugins look the same in Vegas, saving editors time learning multiple tools.

Explore the open effects interface across plugins, focusing on drop-down menus, faders, groups, positional markers, and color interfaces, and animation of effects.

Explore the open effects interface and learn to apply blur effects with feather controls, adjusting intensity, scale, gamma, hue shift, and other fader properties using precise mouse and keyboard interactions.

Explore open effects by manually inputting values beyond default fader ranges, such as hue shift, rotation, and gamma, while noting plugins vary their gamma and saturation ranges.

Explore the open effects interface on Sony Vegas Pro with Essentials Volume Three, mastering positional elements like hotspot and pivot, plus crosshair controls and x/y axis input.

Master pivot position and positional elements in open effects using on-screen controls or numeric inputs; double-click to reset, hold ctrl for precise, incremental moves.

Master the Open Effects interface and color tools—color wheel and disk—using vectorscope and scopes to adjust hue (red, blue, green), colors (magenta, cyan, yellow), and midtones by angle and strength.

Master the color wheel and color selectors in Hitfilm, exploring HSV, HSL, RGB, and Lab to control hue, saturation, and value across color variations.

Explore open effects controls across plugins in Vegas Pro and other software, learn color concepts from HSV to HSL and RGB, and master keyframe animation for intensity, position, and color.

Learn how to animate hit film light flares by adjusting x and y values and gamma, using linear and various fade curves, and syncing grouped keyframes for real-time preview.

Master progressive stretch with NewBlueFX Essentials volume three in Vegas Pro, blending stretch, crop, and alpha manipulation with keyframe animation and sharp or linear fades.

Learn to master progressive stretch in video editing by matching blacks across shots, applying color corrector offsets, and animating stretch and crop using the animate tool for creative transitions.

Learn progressive stretch with the essentials volume three pack in Vegas Pro, animating stretch and crop to create alpha-compatible motion, and compare sharp fade with linear fade for varied pacing.

Explore how slight compression shapes transitions by adjusting speed points, comparing slow in/slow out fades with linear motion, and combining progressive stretch and animation for artistic edits.

Explore how the proportion helper in Blue Effects Essentials volume three provides grid marks, overlays, and safe-area guides to accurately position and align titles and elements in video projects.

Use the proportion helper and grid overlays to accurately center and size titles, adjust diagonals, and align rulers within the video for precise composition.

Master the proportion helper to align elements to screen proportions using markers and the center rotating button, then apply cookie cutter and media generator tools across layers for polished effects.

Learn to use the proportion helper and Vegas grids to keep text and graphics proportionate, centered, and easily animated.

Learn to use the proportion helper plugin from New Blur Effects to apply the rule of thirds with adjustable thickness and angle, featuring grid marks, diagonals, and precise alignment.

Position titles with grid guides and rule of thirds, refine alignment and animation, and apply NewBlueFX plugins such as color fixer pro and detail by luma for a polished look.

Master proportional helper with grid marks to align animations, using the rule of thirds and golden section guides to position text and graphics in Vegas Pro and other editors.

Learn to position text using spiral sections and safe-area guides, aligning with grid marks, proportion helpers, and the rule of thirds, golden section, and diagonals for strong composition.

Explore the sharpen plugin from new blue effects essentials volume three, applying global and region-specific sharpening, and compare detail by chroma and detail by luma for selective edge enhancement.

Apply selective sharpening with detail by chroma and detail by luma. Then blend with overall sharpening and use masks and gamma corrector for refined highlights and shadows.

Learn to apply the skin touch up plugin in NewBlueFX Essentials to target skin tones, use masking and sensitivity controls, and animate color tracking as the subject turns.

Master skin touch up with masking and selective smoothing in a color corrector workflow, balancing lighting and skin tones using gain, gamma, saturation, and contrast.

Learn to apply the blue effects plugin for skin touch up and color correction. Animate skin areas with key points, masks, and sensitivity tweaks for natural results.

Master selective touch up in video editing by masking the face region, adjusting smoothing and blend to compare selective versus skin touch up, and fine-tune for natural skin tones.

Master selective touch up versus skin touch up in new blue effects, using color correction, scopes, gain, offset, and gamma to elevate underlit footage across Vegas Pro and other platforms.

Explore a Sony color correction workflow by adjusting auto contrast, intensity, and vibrance, then refine skin tone with skin touch up and masks for consistent across-clip results.

Apply skin and region touch ups with NewBlue Apex plugins in Vegas Pro, balancing color corrections using gamma and saturation while evaluating masks for consistent face and belt tones.

Apply mild auto contrast from NewBlue Effects to adjust mid tonal range and reintroduce saturation, then use color correction and face masking with skin touch up for a natural look.