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In this episode, we'll create the Pleasantville Effect - everything is black-and-white except for one color - using a Spectramatte and an Animatte for creating a garbage matte.

SHOW NOTES

Genius DV: Pleasantville Effect for Avid

http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/pleasantville_effect_for_avid.php

Genius DV: Invert Key for Spectra Matte Effect in Media Composer

http://www.geniusdv.com/news_and_tutorials/2009/09/invert_key_for_spectra_matte_effect_in_media_compo.php

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In this episode, we'll combat the stuttery mess of wrongly imported or ingested interlaced video footage by swapping the field order with the help of the Matte Key real-time effect. Buckle up, this one's going to get geeky! And don't forget to check out the show notes for more.

SHOW NOTES

Download the Scanlines for the Matte Key:

http://avidscreencast.com/asc04

Learn more about field order:

All About Video Fields by Chris Pirazzi. From a graphics designer's perspective. But - like us - he hates the mess that is fields.

http://lurkertech.com/lg/fields/

Digital Video and Field Order by DVMP.

http://www.dvmp.co.uk/digital-video.htm

Which format uses which field order?

Generally speaking, it boils down to this:

1080i - upper field first

NTSC - lower field first

PAL (except PAL DV) - upper field first

DV (PAL/NTSC) - lower field first

PAL (Avid DV Codec) - upper field first (Simply because it's more fun. No, actually because they wanted to stay with the broadcast field order.)

Confused yet? Pop quiz in five minutes!

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In this episode, we'll create a swish-pan effect without using 3rd-party plug-ins. So it's gonna be cheap, easy and will play in real-time!

Links:

The Avid-L2 Mailing List:

http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Avid-L2/

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In this episode, we'll increase your productivity by being able to quickly switch between different timeline views. For example, just press a button on your keyboard and automatically enlarge the audio tracks while turning on the audio waveforms. It's quick and easy!

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In this episode, we'll create shiny reflections of video as you may know them from the iTunes Store or advertisements. To accomplish that, we'll use the real-time 3D Warp effect and all of it is going to take less than five minutes!

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