This page documents all the additions and changes to Joe's Filters included in Version 3.0. Joe's Filters are comprised of 24 shareware image processing tools and effects for Final Cut Pro.

New Filters:

• Joe's Channel Blur
• Joe's De-Interlacer
• Joe's Diffuser
• Joe's Field Blender
• Joe's Flexi-Smear
• Joe's Levels - Sampled Color
• Joe's Noise - Levels
• Joe's Noise - Saturation
• Joe's Soft Ellipse
• Joe's Soft Shapes
• Joe's Time Bender
• Joe's Y/C Corrector

Updated Filters:

Joe's Levels

• No more flickering in bright whites
• Switched to RGB219 from RGB255 for better YUV translation
• Chroma added to targeting options
• Individual Chroma components added to targeting options
• individual Chroma elements (Cb, Cr) added to targeting options.

Joe's Maximizer

• Formerly known as Joe's Minimum Maximum
• Completely rewritten
• Pixel expansion into geometric shapes between 2 and 12 sides

Joe's Motion Blur

• Now blurs equally in both directions
• Previous "biased blur" still available as an option
• Channel targeting added, same routines as Joe's Channel Blur

Joe's Noise - Color

• Formerly known as Joe's Noise
• Improved display for zoomed desktop previews.
• Redefined presets
• Minor interface tweaks

Joe's Soft Gradients

• Added "Fade Only" compositing mode
• Simplified interface elements
• Dither option now hard-coded

Joe's Simple Saturation

• Formerly Joe's RGB Desaturate
• Completely re-written saturation routines
• Now includes saturation as well as desaturation
• Added Luma to targeting options

Joe's Saturation & Colorize

• Formerly Joe's Radial Desaturate
• Completely re-written saturation routines
• Now includes saturation as well as desaturation
• Colorize now a checkbox option
• Fixed a bug in secondary colorization, now maintains overall brightness

Joe's Soft Spot

• Aspect stretching added to spot shape
• Reversed default spot vs. frame behavior. Now starts as a fuzzy spot
• Dither option now hard-coded