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The principles and elements of composition

The principles and elements of composition - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Motion Graphics in Motion and After Effects

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The principles and elements of composition

- As Final Cut Pro X video editors, you're probably like me and always looking at better ways to help tell your stories. The minute we begin to connect titles, work with green screens and add logos on top of our footage we enter into a whole new realm: the world of composition, that has its own set of rules. If we can begin to understand them, they can assist the overall story we're trying to tell. Let's take a look at some of these concepts. Alright, so I just wanted to refer everyone that some of the stuff that I'm covering is covered in depth in a ton of online fundamental classes. Anywhere from learning the basics of graphic design, to following along with color, to learning about typography, and all different types of things that can help you learn the world of motion graphics. So I'm going to list off here, some of the main principles of composition, that you should be aware of, that apply to both graphic design and somewhat to motion graphic design as well, and those are:…

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