Get Started Fast with Avid Media Composer—Episode 4

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In the fourth of our "Get Started Fast with Avid Media Composer" tutorials, we're ready to give your projects a professional polish with eye-catching effects. In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe demonstrates basic transitions, like dissolves and color flashes. Then, he takes effects to the next level with the 3D Warp tool. Kevin shows how simple it is to add animation to any effect with basic keyframing. To wrap up the lesson, you'll learn how integrate elements created in third-party compositing applications with a demonstration of matte keys and alpha channels.