Color and effects

Add a filter

Select a clip, card, text, graphic, the captions or the cutout and click a filter in the Filters panel, or drag the filter onto it in the picture. With nothing selected, a click puts the filter on a Filters track at the playhead for 3 seconds. Intensity sets how much shows.

1. Choose Filters on the left rail. Each tile shows your own picture with the filter on.
2. To put it on one clip, card, text, graphic, the captions or the cutout, select that first, then click the tile, or drag the tile onto it in the picture. An fx chip on the clip or card shows it is there. With nothing selected, a click adds the filter at the playhead for 3 seconds, as a bar on a Filters track.
3. Or drag the tile onto the timeline: onto a clip or card to put it on that, or anywhere else for a bar on the track under the pointer.
4. On its page, drag Intensity (0 to 100%). Turn on Whole video to make the bar run the whole reel.

The 24 filters

On the page you can also set how the filter comes In and goes Out: Cut, Fade or Wipe.

A filter on a clip, card, text, graphic, the captions or the cutout changes only that one. A filter bar changes everything on the tracks under its own. A new one goes under your cards, text and captions, so it changes your video and you. Drag its track higher to grade more: see Choose what a filter or effect changes.

Adjust brightness, contrast and color

Open Adjust, click Adjustment, and use the Basic tab: brightness, contrast, saturation, exposure, temperature and more. Every setting starts at 0.

1. Choose Adjust on the left rail and click Adjustment. Select a clip, card, text, graphic, the captions or the cutout first to put it on that, or drag the tile onto it in the picture; with nothing selected, it goes on an Adjust track at the playhead, changing everything on the tracks under it.
2. On the Basic tab, drag the sliders. Each tab has its own Reset.
3. To keep your settings for next time, choose Save as preset, name it and choose Save. Presets appear under My presets in every project.

Fine-tune color with HSL, Curves and Color wheels

On an adjustment’s page, the HSL, Curves and Color wheels tabs shift single colors, bend the tones and tint the shadows, midtones and highlights.

HSL

Pick one of eight colors (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Aqua, Blue, Purple, Magenta) and change its Hue, Saturation and Luminance, each from −100 to 100. Try lowering Orange saturation to calm skin.

Curves

Choose Brightness, Red, Green or Blue. Click the curve to add a point and drag it. Double-click a point to remove it.

Color wheels

Three wheels, Shadows, Midtones and Highlights. Drag the pad toward a color to tint that part of the picture, and use Brightness (−100 to 100) to lighten or darken it. Each wheel has its own Reset.

Use a LUT for flat footage

On Adjust, pick a LUT from the list, or choose Import LUT for your own .cube or .3dl file. Two are built in, for Sony S-Log3 and Canon Log3 footage.

1. Choose Adjust. Under LUTs, click Sony S-Log3 to Rec.709 or Canon Log3 to Rec.709 to put it on the selected clip.
2. Or open an adjustment’s LUT tab and choose from the LUT menu. A LUT intensity slider (0 to 100) appears.
3. To bring your own, choose Import LUT and pick a .cube or .3dl file.

Imported LUTs and presets are yours: they are available in every project, and a LUT a project uses is copied into it. Use More, then Remove from library, to delete one.

Add an effect

Open Effects and click one. There are 20 in nine groups, from Blur and Fisheye to VHS, Glitch, Glow, Camera shake and Cinematic bars.

1. Choose Effects on the left rail. Search, or hover a moving tile to see it play.
2. Select a clip, card, text, graphic, the captions or the cutout first to put the effect on that, or drag the tile onto it in the picture. With nothing selected, a click adds it at the playhead for 3 seconds, as a bar on an Effects track. You can also drag it onto the timeline.
3. Change its settings on its page. Most numbers have a keyframe diamond.

Spotlight and Color pop use the cutout of you. It is made the first time you use one, and they go on a clip or an Effects track, never on a card, text, graphic, the captions or the cutout.

An effect bar changes everything on the tracks under its own. A new one goes under your cards, so it changes your video and you, but a new Blur area or Mosaic goes over your cards, so it covers them. See Choose what a filter or effect changes.

Want an effect that is not in the list?

Choose what a filter or effect changes

A filter, effect or adjustment on its own track changes everything on the tracks under it, and nothing above. Drag its track up or down to choose what it reaches.

A filter, effect or adjustment added with nothing selected is a bar on a Filters, Effects or Adjust track. It changes the picture made by everything on the tracks under it: your video, the cutout of you, cards, text, graphics and captions. Nothing on a track over it changes.

Where a new one goes

• A new filter, adjustment or effect goes just over your video and the cutout of you, under your cards, text and captions. So it changes you and the room, and nothing else.
• A new Blur area or Mosaic goes over your cards, so it covers them.

Choose what it reaches

1. Drag the track by its name. Above the Overlays track, it grades your cards too. At the top, just under the Captions track, it grades everything but the captions.
2. Click the track’s name to check. Its page says what it changes, such as Changes everything on the tracks under it: overlays, the cutout of you and your video.

Under the cutout of you

A filter or effect on a track under the Cutout of you track changes the room but not you. A Black and white filter there leaves you in color. See Remove background.

When two overlap

The one on the lower track is drawn first. A filter, effect or adjustment put on a clip, card, text, graphic, the captions or the cutout changes only that one, before the tracks over it.

Cover a face or a name with Blur area or Mosaic

Put a Blur area or Mosaic over what should not show, drag it into place on the preview, and for something that moves, add keyframes to follow it.

1. Open Effects and click Blur area or Mosaic (search "censor" finds both).
2. Pause on a frame. Handles appear on the preview. Drag to move the area, drag the handles to size and feather it.
3. For something that moves, click the diamond beside Point, step forward about half a second and drag again. Repeat. Size can be keyed too, as a face comes nearer.
4. Play the whole stretch and look at the frames between your keyframes.

Yapp Studio does not find faces by itself. You cover a face by hand with Blur area or Mosaic, or with an Emoji pop whose place and size you key.

A Blur area or Mosaic covers everything on the tracks under its own. A new one goes over your cards, so it covers B-roll and photos too. To cover a title or graphic as well, drag its track above theirs (see Choose what a filter or effect changes).