Hi all, Is there any way within Avid FX to draw a custom shape to create an alpha like you can with the BCC make alpha? All I can find is set shapes like circles and rectangles etc. When I try to draw a spline I can't seem to work out how to use that as a key. Thanks, Craig.

[quote user="Mike Shaw"]Douglas has just Skyped me and shown me how that works. Could be very useful when I get the windows all messed up - as I do when exploring ... [/quote] That should be quite soon, Mike Actually, when I was chatting with Mike, I soon realised that he was slowing down and...

Helo, Woking on some text layers in AvidFX. I would lke to achieve a camera DepthOfField effect for my text layers (animated)? I tried to put the text tracks inside a 3D container but the tracks display (eyes) are muted. They work fine in a regular container but no camera tab. If text layers on 3D container...

[quote user="AndrewAction"]As I said before Douglas's Avid FX Tutorials on the site here are a pretty good for starters.[/quote] Thanks for the mentions Andrew. (Sorry I am a bit low on cash just now......) Terry, If you are not in a big hurry, and you contact me, I'll give you some...

When using HD footage in an SD project, sometimes I want to zoom in but it would be great not to lose any quality. I know I can do that in AE and then render it out and I've also seen this in the forums: Start and HD project, capture the footage you want to resize at HD, if you are using HDV then...

It is quite easy to forget which filters you had originally after installing Media Composer and which filters are new ones that have been added after installing 3rd party applications. Hopefully this short Tutorial will help you decide if your installations have succeeded or not. Regards, Douglas This...