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1 Clip - Multiple Effects - Basic Nesting Concept

drbgaijin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:12:50 GMT

Most Newcomers fall into the trap of dragging yet another effect onto a clip which has already an effect applied.
The results are met by questions on the Forums like, "Isn't it possible to add multiple effects to a clip?"
Here is the answer - Yes, it is.
And here is a very simple look at the procedure of nesting effects.

Regards,
Douglas

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Stumbling around in the Effect Palette - 1. A Ray of Light

drbgaijin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:41:41 GMT

There are so many effects and variations on effects that it is very easy to overlook one that might just be what you are looking for.

From time to time I will add a short tutorial on some effect that I may have stumbled across in the Effect Palette.

This one is known as "Streaky Rays".

Regards,
Douglas

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Handwriting Revisited

drbgaijin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:30:55 GMT

Unfortunately my emphasis on using a continuous stroke while masking out the handwriting in my original tutorial on this topic gave the wrong signals.
AvidFX is not limited to 1-stroke in this case.
Multiple strokes are quite feasible.
This follow-up tutorial is to show that multiple strokes can be used if preferred.

Regards,
Douglas

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Handwriting Effect with AvidFX

drbgaijin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:34:02 GMT

Making text appear to be written onto the screen can be easily done with the Paint Effect.
However the text that you write with a mouse or even a graphic tablet can leave a lot to be desired.

This tutorial shows one method of using a standard Handwriting Font as your base for the effect.

Good Luck.......

Regards,
Douglas

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Expanding Library of Media Composer Tutorials

drbgaijin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:40:12 GMT

I am a relative newcomer to Media Composer (early 2008) and as I began to feel my way around I got the idea of documenting my adventures by creating short video tutorials,
Avid had already a large number of excellent, professionally produced tutorials online.
I learned very much from watching them. However I sometimes felt that newcomers like myself needed a much more basic approach to many of the things that were being taken for granted.

The first 20 or so tutorials were specifically made to help migrants from Avid/Pinnacle Liquid. However, many of those contain tips that can be useful to any newcomers.

The two main points that I have learned since arriving here are:

1. Media Composer has many, many ways of achieving a given result. My tutorials usually show only 1 of them. Be flexible and experiment for yourself. Nothing is set in stone.

2. If you are coming from a different NLE family, try and leave your old workflows behind you.
Don't try and figure out how to emulate them in MC.
The sooner you begin to accept the MC way, the sooner you will get up to speed and discover its flexibility.
It took me only 14 days before I completely stopped using Liquid.

SEE ALL THE TUTORIALS HERE on the MEDIA COMPOSER - PC FORUM

The tutorial page is, as the title above says, "Expanding".
Please drop in every now and then to see what has been added!

Hope you find something useful.

Regards,
Douglas

Using Keyframes in Effects

drbgaijin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:19:13 GMT

To say the least, I was very confused by keyframes when I first began using BorisFX and later AvidFX.

I could never seem to get consistent results.

Hopefully this very basic look at keyframing will point you in the correct direction.

Good luck!

Douglas

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The SubCap Generator 2 - Exporting a subcap to AvidDVD

drbgaijin — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:11:22 GMT

Having succeeded in entering Japanese text into the SubCap Generator, I began to wonder if I could export it easily and then import it into AvidDVD.
That was not as easy as I had hoped for.
However I did find a way to do it in the end.
The method will work for subcaps in any language.

Regards,
Douglas

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The SubCap Generator and Japanese Text

drbgaijin — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:50:11 GMT

It was most out of curiosity that I tested the SubCap generator.
Normally I add subtitles to my projects when authoring in Avid DVD.
As my editing computer is running under Windows XP Pro, Japanese edition, I was surprised to see that there were problems with entering Japanese text.
Here is how I solved the problem.
There is a follow up to this Tutorial named, "The SubCap Generator - Exporting a Subcap to AvidDVD"

Regards,
Douglas

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