Color, effects and privacy
Ask for a look and Valmera applies it: six grade presets with custom controls, five one-request looks, transitions and fades, film-style effects like grain and VHS, picture sharpening and stabilization, and privacy tools that blur a region or erase burned-in text and objects outright. Every effect is a layer you can adjust or remove later.
Color grade
- Ask for a grade or a look
Name a preset (“make it cinematic”) or a whole look (“give it the hype look”).
- Fine-tune with custom controls
Adjust exposure, contrast, saturation, temperature, tint, shadows and highlights in plain words: “a touch warmer, less saturated, lift the shadows.”
- Review the preview
Check skin tones and the brightest and darkest shots. Captions and graphics are never graded.
- Change or clear it
Ask for a different preset, a lighter touch, or “remove the grade.”
| Control | Options |
|---|---|
| Presets | vibrant, warm, cool, black and white, vintage, cinematic |
| Custom | exposure, contrast, saturation, temperature (cool to warm), tint (green to magenta), shadows, highlights |
| Combining | Custom controls apply on top of a preset: “cinematic, but warmer and less saturated” |
- Make it cinematic, but a touch warmer.
- Brighten the shadows and bring back the sky in the highlights.
- Black and white for the whole video.
- Remove the grade.
Type these in Studio chat, or ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or another assistant connected to Valmera’s MCP server. More in the prompt library.
One-request looks
A look sets captions, grade, transitions, fades and effects together, then every part stays adjustable on its own.
| Look | What it sets |
|---|---|
| hype | Bold extra-large captions, vibrant grade, zoom-punch transitions, a closing fade |
| clean | Clean white captions, no grade, gentle fades |
| cinematic | Elegant captions, cinematic grade with slight warmth, one-second fades, dip-to-black transitions |
| luxury | Luxe captions, warm grade, long fades |
| meme | Impact-style extra-large captions, flash transitions, film grain |
Looks never touch your cuts, music or sound effects.
Transitions and fades
| Style | Feels like | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| dip to black | A quick dip through black | Calm, universal |
| dip to white | A soft fade through white | Light, upbeat edits |
| whip left / whip right | A fast directional slide with motion blur | Vlogs and reels |
| zoom punch | An accelerating push through the cut | Hype and sports |
| glitch | An RGB-split noise burst | Tech and gaming |
| flash | A white pop that peaks on the cut | Beat-synced edits |
By default transitions land only where the shot actually changes or an inserted clip starts, not on the jump cuts left by silence removal, where a whip every few seconds would look broken. Ask for “every cut” when you want them everywhere, or “just two or three” for restraint. Durations run from 0.1 to 1.5 seconds (0.3 seconds by default).
Fades: fade in from black at the start and out to black at the end, picture and sound together. For a hard glitch beat between sections, ask for a glitch screen.
- Use whip transitions at scene changes and fade in from black.
- Use a quick dip to black, but only on two or three of the biggest scene changes.
Stylize effects
Layer a texture on the whole video or on any time window, at the intensity you describe: film grain, vignette, glow, halation, chromatic aberration, dream blur, VHS, flash, camera shake and motion blur. One or two read as a look; five at once read as a broken TV.
- Subtle film grain and a light vignette over everything.
- Heavy VHS on the intro only, up to 0:08.
Need a look no preset covers, such as a green CRT tint or a slow hue drift? Describe it. Valmera can write a custom filter, test it on your footage and apply it to the whole video or a window.
Sharpen, denoise and stabilize
- Sharpen: “make it sharper” recovers detail softened by compression.
- Denoise the picture: “clean up the grain” smooths noisy low-light footage; Valmera applies it before sharpening.
- Stabilize: “stabilize it” smooths modest handheld wobble across the whole video. It can’t fix a walk, a whip pan or rolling shutter.
None of these add resolution that isn’t in the source. Picture denoise is visual only; there’s no audio denoise.
Blur a face, plate or username
- Describe what to hide and when: “blur the license plate from 0:12 to 0:20.”
- Valmera looks at the frames, places a blur, pixelation or solid black bar over that area, renders and checks the preview, and enlarges the box if anything still shows.
- Review the whole window. The box stays fixed; it doesn’t follow movement.
Censors are placed on the original frame, so the covered area stays covered when you reframe to 9:16. They apply to your main footage only: inserted clips and images aren’t censored, so check those before adding them. If you cut or rearrange the video afterwards, watch the censored moments again.
- Pixelate the email address in the top-right corner for the whole video.
- Black out the phone number on the whiteboard from 1:02 to 1:15.
Erase text, watermarks and objects
“Remove the burned-in subtitles” measures every subtitle region and repaints the pixels, reconstructing the picture behind them. That’s real removal, not a blur. The same works for watermarks, usernames, signs, logos and small objects. Do it before adding new captions so the old text doesn’t show through.
- Remove the burned-in subtitles, then add new captions.
- Remove the watermark in the bottom-right corner.
- Erase the sign behind me from 0:10 to 0:18.
Troubleshooting
| Symptom | Fix |
|---|---|
| The grade is too strong | Ask for “half as strong”, or adjust one control: “less contrast.” |
| Transitions appear on every jump cut | Ask for transitions only at scene changes, or limit them to two or three. |
| You wanted a crossfade | Crossfades aren’t supported. Use dip to black or dip to white. |
| Text still shows at the edge of a blur | Ask to make the blur box bigger, or give a tighter time window. |
| A moving face escapes the blur | Censor boxes don’t track. Split the moment into shorter windows with their own boxes. |
| An erase left a smudge | Erase a smaller area, limit it to the frames where the mark appears, or use a blur instead. |
| Sharpening didn’t make it HD | Sharpening recovers detail but can’t add resolution. Start from the best source you have. |
Limits
- No true crossfades or dissolves; one transition style per video.
- Grades apply to the whole video.
- Blur boxes don’t track moving subjects.
- Enhancement can’t add resolution; stabilization is whole-video and for modest wobble.
- No audio denoise.
Tools behind this page: set_color_grade set_grade_custom apply_look set_transitions set_fades add_stylize remove_stylize enhance_video add_custom_filter remove_custom_filter blur_region remove_blur find_burned_text erase_burned_text erase_region remove_erase · Full toolset reference
Frequently asked questions
Can Valmera color grade my video?
Yes. Choose a preset (vibrant, warm, cool, black and white, vintage or cinematic) and fine-tune exposure, contrast, saturation, temperature, tint, shadows and highlights in plain words. The grade applies to the whole video; captions and graphics are never graded.
Does Valmera support crossfades?
No. True crossfades, where two clips overlap and dissolve, aren't supported. The closest options are dip to black and dip to white.
Can Valmera blur faces automatically?
Valmera places a blur, pixelation or black bar over the area you describe, checks the preview and enlarges the box if anything still shows. The box is fixed in place: it doesn't track a face that moves, so split a moving subject into shorter time windows.
Can Valmera remove a watermark or burned-in captions?
Yes. It measures the text and repaints the pixels to reconstruct the picture behind it, which removes the text rather than covering it. It works best on thin text and steady shots.
Can I use different transitions on different cuts?
One transition style applies across the video. By default it lands only where the shot changes or an inserted clip starts; you can ask for every cut or just a few.
Can Valmera make blurry footage sharp or HD?
It can sharpen detail softened by compression and reduce grain, but it can't add resolution that isn't in the source.