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Using Head Fade and Tail Fade

Using Head Fade and Tail Fade - Media Composer Tutorial

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Using Head Fade and Tail Fade

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- One of the issues with using the regular quick transition button to have a title fade up and down in Media Composer is that it's difficult to automate having the titles fade up and down inside the title and there's a shortcut for that. We don't really want our transition effects for a title to be centered on the cut. If I go back into this transition effect, I really want this to be starting at the cut, I'll just add that and I want this transition effect to be ending at the cut I know and that. There's a quick, easy shortcut to achieve this that I'm an enormous fan of in Media Composer. And I'll show you how we can quickly choose the durations of our fades and make sure they're located as we want them. I'm going to remove this transition effect and I'm going to remove this transition effect. And I'll just trim with the red trim tool and I'm going to hold Control or Command to snap and I'll do the same at the end…

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