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Changing the order of nested effects

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Changing the order of nested effects

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- [Instructor] Nesting effects in the wrong order can produce unwanted results. And there's a great example, I can give you here at the end of this sequence. If you look at the top left image, one could argue that it's a little bit dark relative to the others. And we want to brighten it up. The question is which image is that one? Well, I'm going to hold the Control key here on Windows, that's the Command key on Mac OS, and I'm going to click through each of these track monitoring buttons to identify which one has the clip on it that I want to work on. And here it is, it's this clip right at the top. I'll just Control click again, to go back to monitoring the composition of all of the layers. I'm going to go back to my effect palette. And I'm going to drag that color effect onto the clip. And I'm going to hold the Alt or Option key. So, I auto nest the effect. This puts the picture-in-picture effect inside the nest.…

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