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id: REC-2
title: Filters
group: Recording
summary: The six filters, how to change them, and how your fingers move the look
keywords: [filters, modes, look, digital, film, noir, synth, rotoscope, comic, color, lens, wear out, shake, remove, ring]
---

A filter is the material your picture is made of.

## The six filters

There are six, on the ring around the red button.

- **DIGITAL:** the picture as shot, until you drag it somewhere else.
- **FILM:** a soft color negative, with grain and a print's blacks.
- **NOIR:** rich black and white, with deep blacks and fine grain.
- **SYNTH:** shadows and highlights pushed into invented color.
- **ROTOSCOPE:** your footage traced into a color drawing, with ink lines.
- **COMIC:** a printed halftone of colored dots on warm newsprint.

## Change filter

Turn the ring around the red button, or tap a filter on it. The filter's name shows for a moment, then leaves. A project remembers the filter you left it on.

## Move the look

Every filter answers the same three gestures, each in its own way.

- **Color filter:** drag one finger on the picture.
- **Lens filter:** drag two fingers on the picture.
- **Wear out filter:** hold two fingers still, then drag. This is the filter falling apart: tape losing tracking, film getting dust and light leaks.

There is no slider. The picture itself shows where you are.

## Remove filter

Shake the phone.

## It stays in the clip

The look is recorded into the clip as you film. You cannot change a clip's filter afterward, and you cannot remove it. Each clip keeps the look it was filmed with, so one film can hold several.