From the course: Avid Media Composer: Narrative Scene Editing
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Color grading and stylizing the flashback scene - Media Composer Tutorial
From the course: Avid Media Composer: Narrative Scene Editing
Color grading and stylizing the flashback scene
So, we've edited our flashback scene and have applied some nice stylistic elements to it with some third-party effects. Now, this might very well be good enough, but we do have the option of taking it a step further to see what a little color grading might do to make it just a little bit more authentic. So, in our Rough Cut Bin, I have Sequence 1 here. And again, this is everything we've done so far. Looks good. And what I'm going to do is actually add a video track. Command+Y, or Ctrl+Y on a PC. Let's go into the Effect palette, under Image, and we're going to go ahead and add a color effect like so, and I want to move our monitor up so we can actually see what we're doing. Actually, let's deselect all tracks, Command+Shift+A or Ctrl+Shift+A on a PC and just select V2. We don't want the effect over the first shot. So I'll just lift that out. And we don't want the effect over the last two shots, so lift that out. Okay, so we're isolating it to just the flashback. So we already have…
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