…You no doubt encounter chroma key effects on a…regular basis, whether you're aware of it or not.…Keying removes the background from behind an actor, for…instance, and replaces it with any real or imagined background.…And you'll see this process used in everything from big…budget fantasy and science fiction movies, to nightly TV weather reports.…Now you can do it on your home computer, how cool is that.…The basic principles of…chroma key or video merge, are that we take a video…that has a green background or a blue background, any kind…of smooth colored background, and we make that background transparent so…that another video or a still photo behind it becomes its background.…
So we have a chroma key clip here.…I'm going to double click it to open it up in the clip monitor.…And you see what we have. It's a bicyclist and he's in front…of a green background.…Now, one real important thing if you're going to try to do a chroma…key effect, and that is make sure that you have a well shot key shot.…This is a beautifully shot key shot. Notice the background is evenly lit.…
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12/20/2013- Downloading media from your camcorder
- Importing media on your computer
- Managing media with the Organizer
- Performing slice, trim, and ripple edits
- Creating a motion path with the Pan & Zoom tool
- Speeding up or slowing down video segments with Time Remapping
- Color-correcting video
- Building custom music tracks with Scores
- Creating fade-ins and fade-outs
- Adding text animation
- Keyframing video effects
- Adding effects to your entire movie at once with the new Adjustment Layer feature
- Burning a DVD or Blu-ray disc
- Uploading your video to Facebook, Vimeo, and YouTube
- Uploading to Adobe Revel
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 16s
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1. Gather Your Assets
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2. The Basics of Timeline Editing
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Using Guided Edit3m 12s
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3. The Premiere Elements Toolkit
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Recording narration3m 33s
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4. Color Correction and Effects
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5. Audio Production Tools
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6. Transitions
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7. Titles and Text
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Adding a text animation5m 3s
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8. Keyframing
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Keyframing video effects7m 19s
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9. DVD and Blu-ray Production
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Adding menu markers4m 29s
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Applying a menu template8m 38s
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10. Share Your Video
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Conclusion
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Goodbye1m 41s
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Video: Using the Chroma Key and Videomerge effects