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Resize a shot

Resize a shot - Media Composer Tutorial

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Resize a shot

- [Instructor] Well I think all editors dream of treating the post production process as an entirely creative one, the truth is a lot of the work that we do is really to save our content, you're either going to have media that's too bright or too dark or the framings wrong and you're going to need to correct that before you can get in to the creative process. You'll find that quite a lot of the effects in Media Composer make this process easier and the resize effect is a good example, in fact if I go to my effect pallette and scroll down to the image category you can see here we've got quite a few options that will help us with this sort of thing, simple flip and flop effects, blur effects, mosaics, even the masks which help us to reframe the shot with letter boxing, and the effect we're going to use now is the resize, this has got a green dot so on a reasonably powerful machine I'd expect this to play back without dropping frames. I'm in this resizer shot sequence and I've got a mark…

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