Lynda - Editing with Composites and Effects in Avid Media Composer

This course shows how to create complex composites using mattes, keys, and intraframe effects?elements that allow editors and motion graphics artists to seamlessly combine and animate multiple layers of video content?with Avid Media Composer.

Avid Certified Instructor Ashley Kennedy demonstrates chroma-keying with SpectraMatte, creating shape masks with AniMatte, working with alpha channels using Matte Keys, and changing the color and/or characteristics of specific objects within the video frame using the Paint effect.

The course includes real-world examples of how these tools can be used in a production setting.

Topics include:

Introducing compositing

Pulling chroma keys with SpectraMatte

Animating a chroma key

Working with luma keys using the 3D Luma Keyer

Masking out part of an image with the AniMatte effect

Using AniMatte effects as transitions

Using alpha channels in keys

Creating a title sequence using a layered Photoshop file

Changing the color or characteristics of an area inside the video frame using the Paint effect

Writing words with the Brush tool

Cloning and tracking objects

Removing scratches and artifacts

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