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Importing and animating matte keys

Importing and animating matte keys - Media Composer Tutorial

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Importing and animating matte keys

So now that we, A, know what alpha channels are, B, know how to create alpha channels in graphic creation programs, and C, know all the rules for importing graphics into Avid, we're finally ready to import. I know there's a lot of buildup here, but you'll be glad to have all this preliminary knowledge so that you're spared many of the problems that can exist when amateurs try to work with graphics that contain alpha channels. What we want to do is build the part of the scene where the spaceship is approaching Saturn. So I've already edited the stars in as our background. And we just want to import those other two images which are matte keys. So I'm going to right-click, and Import. And the first one is inside the planets with alphas folder, and it's Saturn. So Saturn already has an alpha channel. It's also sized correctly, so I want to make sure that I have Image sized for current format selected. And I want to make sure that my alpha channel is inverted on import. I'm going to select…

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