From the course: Media Composer 2019 Essential Training: 101 Fundamentals 1
Auto-nesting - Media Composer Tutorial
From the course: Media Composer 2019 Essential Training: 101 Fundamentals 1
Auto-nesting
- [Instructor] For this tutorial, I'm using a new project called Combining Multiple Effects. This project has a version of our jacuzzi sequence and it's just been a little bit cleaned up so we can now continue and work on some effects. We've got two versions of the sequence in the sequences bin. The one we're looking at right now, which is described as version one, and if I double click on the version two, you can see there are already some effects applied so you can compare and contrast. I'm going to go back to this version one and just as a clip for us to work on, I'm going to pick this shot that's a little after 40 seconds into the sequence. I want to give this film what I would call a little bit of a more filmic look, so we're going to put some letter boxing on to make the image wider or appear wider at least. I'm going to go to the effect palate and in the film section of the filters category, I'm going to take this 1.66 mask and drag this onto the clip. Looking in the composer window at this preview monitor, it kind of looks as if the clip has been shrunk. You can see this wide outline around the image, but what's actually happened is we've got black letter boxing applied at the top and bottom of the image, so it's actually cropping the image and applying a background color. Just to illustrate what's going on, if I turn off the scaling fixed aspect control and adjust the height, you can see very clearly what's happening. The original image is still behind the crop, so this is really just a preset that happens to be set to 1.66 to one. I'll just undo to restore that 80% crop. Now, let's say I want to make an adjustment to the size of this image as well, so I'm going to go to the image category and I'm going to take our resize effect and I'm going to drop this onto the clip as well. As soon as I do this, of course, the resize effect replaces the mask that I already had on the clip. This is what happens any segment effect onto another segment effect, so I'm going to undo and this time I'm going to drag the resize effect on again, but I'm going to hold our favorite modifier key, which is alt on Windows or option on Mac OS. So I'm holding alt here on Windows and I'm dragging the effect on top of the mask and I release the mouse and now you can see that we've got the resize icon on the clip segment in the timeline window, but we're still retaining the mask. You can combine any number of segment effects this way in Media Composer. Just hold down alt or option and drag the effect you want onto the clip. The technique is called autonesting and we'll look at how you can navigate nested clips and effects in a moment.
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Contents
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Launching Media Composer3m 55s
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Creating a user profile4m 46s
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Overview of the Media Composer interface6m 29s
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The Bin Container window4m 23s
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Creating bins3m 55s
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Floating and docking windows2m 27s
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Working in bins5m 44s
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Filtering bins1m 8s
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Sifting bins3m 15s
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The Bin Map2m 34s
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Introducing the Composer window5m 30s
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Keys and buttons in the Composer window1m 29s
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The Timeline window4m 29s
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Importing6m 10s
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Overview of the Source Browser6m 7s
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Linking with the Source Browser2m 51s
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Importing with the Source Browser1m 57s
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Importing audio media4m 7s
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Installing AMA plugins1m 50s
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Deleting unwanted clips2m 33s
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Working with source settings5m 2s
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Relinking media files6m 22s
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Adjusting source clip audio level4m 50s
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Building your sequence with Splice-In5m 55s
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Inserting a shot2m 59s
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Maintaining sync when splicing in clips4m 18s
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Understanding filler3m 54s
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Editing with Overwrite6m 18s
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Removing material with the Lift tool5m 16s
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Removing material with the Extract tool5m 19s
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Adding edits2m 34s
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Working with timecode4m 35s
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The Timecode window1m 49s
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Match Frame1m 58s
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Find Bin2m
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Go to Next Event and Go to Previous Event2m 39s
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The Smart Tools5m 52s
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The Settings keyboard shortcut1m 22s
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Smart Tool settings6m 7s
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Dragging options4m 15s
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Automatically creating a sequence2m 36s
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Drag and drop to splice-in6m 13s
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Drag-and-drop overwrite3m 17s
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Timeline View options3m 14s
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Dark and light text3m 12s
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Dupe Detection2m 53s
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Digital audio scrub2m 17s
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Change the volume of a segment3m 17s
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Soloing and muting tracks3m 4s
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Adding quick transitions6m 56s
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Adding multiple transition effects1m 55s
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Modifying transition effects in the timeline2m 37s
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Accessing effects from the Effect palette2m 15s
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Modifying effects in Effect mode5m 21s
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Creating an effect template3m 48s
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Removing transitions1m 21s
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Add audio transitions2m 55s
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Replacing standard transition effects2m 30s
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Types of effect2m 59s
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The Effect Palette1m 46s
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Applying segment effects1m 24s
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Removing segment effects1m 41s
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The Effects workspace2m 30s
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Flop a shot2m 37s
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Stabilize a shot4m 34s
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Locking down a shot2m 47s
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Configure automatic color correction4m 5s
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Apply automatic color correction4m 36s
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Hiding jump cuts with Fluid Morph5m 2s
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Advanced Fluid Morph settings2m 59s
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Resize a shot5m 26s
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Animate a shot with key frames3m 29s
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Create a title with the Avid Titler+ tool6m 6s
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Exploring the Avid Titler+ formatting options6m 24s
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Shadow, edge, and frame options3m 23s
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Default title parameters1m 12s
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Saving a title5m 3s
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Modifying a title2m 27s
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Creating shapes4m 43s
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Fading a title up and down1m 58s
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Using Head Fade and Tail Fade3m 53s
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Removing titles4m 45s
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The Video Quality menu5m 10s
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