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Local contrast enhancement increases the appearance of light-dark transitions in your source media.

This effect was designed to give you similar functionality to what is available in image retouching programs such as Adobe® Photoshop®.

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FxFactory is a revolutionary visual effects architecture powering hundreds of plug-ins for Final Cut Pro, Motion, Final Cut Express and Adobe After Effects:

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