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I was asked if it was possible to get the Glow Effect without Boris Continuum Complete. Had I been a smart-ass, I would have replied: "Sure, buy Sapphire!"

But I'm trying not to be, so I came up with something that looks kinda similar, and I called it Film Flash, because "Glow Part 2" seemed lame.

In this tutorial, I'll use a Blur and the Color Effect to create that Film Flash.

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Nothing fancy, but a solid workhorse: Want to make sure that your sequence is complying with technical broadcast standards? The Safe Color Limiter Effect is your friend.

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In this episode, we'll transition into a title by starting with a blur and then slowly letting it focus.

To do this we'll have to look into how titles actually work, redoing it as a simple Matte Key and then manipulating Key and Fill to achieve out goal. You see, it's fun for the whole family!

And if you were hoping for Media Composer 5 content: As soon as I get my hands on the new version, there'll be some. Might take a bit, though, sorry.

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Avid's Marquee video tutorial

http://learn.avid.com/content/tutorials/marquee/tutorial.html

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This week's episode features a request from Youtube user Instantslugger, who wanted to know how to do a curtain transition within Media Composer.

Turns out it's not that hard. We'll do it using Avid's Paint effect and a Matte Key, plus I'll show you how to make the transition reusable and real-time.

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Props to Instantslugger for making this cool request:

http://www.youtube.com/instantslugger

The transition was oroginally used by skee.tv:

http://www.youtube.com/skeetv

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Everybody knows the Timewarp only applies to video. But what if you want to change the speed of your audio as well?

In this episode, we'll do just that with the help of a couple of different AudioSuite plugins that come with Media Composer.

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No show this week, so I thought I'd give you some food for thought. Paul Sampson created a great document listing a bunch of useful Avid Console commands. (You find the console under Tools. But if you didn't know about it before reading this, maybe you don't want to mess with it.)

So I added the document to the feed and hope Paul doesn't go DMCA on me.

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Paul Sampson's Console Commands Page

http://paul-sampson.ca/AVIDSupport/

Wanna know ALL commands there are? What are you, crazy?

http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=243109

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In this episode, we'll create a nice Glow transition using a Boris Continuum Complete Effect that ships with Media Composer.

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In the final installment of the Color Correction series, we'll highlight parts of a shot by using a vignette.

Then, I'll go through some Color Correction options that I hadnn't mentioned in previous episodes.

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If you really want to learn about color correction, I strongly recommend Steve Hullfish's "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0240809904?ie=UTF8&tag=avidscree-20

(Disclaimer: If you buy the book from the link above, I'll get a small kickback from Amazon.)

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In this episode, we'll continue matching one shot to another. We'll do it manually, and we'll use Avid's curves.

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If you really want to learn about color correction, I strongly recommend Steve Hullfish's "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"

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One of the most common tasks when doing color correction is matching two shots. So this week and next, we'll do exactly that.

As always, I like working with the curves in Avid, but you should be able to use the skills learned in this tutorial when using the Color Wheels as well.

Sorry for splitting this tutorial into two episodes, but I try to keep the length of the podcast around ten minutes -- this one would have been too long.

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If you really want to learn about color correction, I strongly recommend Steve Hullfish's "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0240809904?ie=UTF8&tag=avidscree-20

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