The final tutorial in this series created to assist Avid/Pinnacle Liquid users who are considering migrating to Media Composer.
Instead of pointing out problems likely to be encountered in making the migration I decided to end on a more positive note and show one of the features in MC which will make you glad that you did.
If you would like to watch this tutorial as a full-size QT-movie I suggest you right click HERE and download the file to your computer.
Douglas, Kumamoto, Japan - Avid Media Composer 3/ Mojo DX, (+Avid Liquid 7.2), http://www.gaijin-eyes.com
I think it's great that you've taken on the task of helping Liquid users become accustomed to the ways of the Media Composer.
The FluidMorph trick is a great one, I use it all the time for interviews - I generally do a 6 frame (centered) duration so the "morphing" is minimized. Also, there's a setting to switch whether you morph a still frame or video. That can also help smooth out some of the motion blending.
And finally, if it's an effect you find yourself using over and over with the same custom settings you can click on the effect's icon in the Effect Palette and drag it to a bin to re-use later. Also, (in the case of FluidMorph especially) if you create a bin named exactly as "Quick Transitions" (minus quotations) and place any Transition type effects in that bin, then when you hit the "Quick Transitions" button ( "\" on the keyboard) your customized transition fx will appear in the selection list.
-------------------------- Kenton VanNatten Avid Editor "I'm not obsessed... I'm detail-oriented" --------------------------
Thanks for the positive feedback.
I have enjoyed making the tutorials and I am getting a few emails from around the world - all with positive reactions.
I run them on my own site too and have had about 900 hits from about 20 countries.
In the next day or so there will be links here on the Avid site to full size QT versions so that newcomers will be able to see them in better detail.
Regards,
Douglas
PS. Thanks, too, for your tips.
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