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Introducing keyframes and composite shots

Introducing keyframes and composite shots

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Introducing keyframes and composite shots

- [Instructor] Here I have a brand-new empty project. You know all about the editor timeline of course. But this time, let's do something a little different. In the Media panel, click the New button. Then select Composite Shot. This opens up a window with lots of options, most of which are quite similar to the ones you'd choose when starting a new project. I'm going to change the name to Example, then select the 1080p Full HD @ 25 frames per second template. Feel free to choose the template that best matches the kind of footage and projects that you're going to be working on. Leave all the other settings as they are and hit the OK button. Take a look. We now have a completely new timeline. You can swap back to the editor timeline whenever you want by clicking the Editor tab. You can create as many of these composite shots as you want. So being able to switch between them using tabs like in a web browser is really useful. So what is a composite shot? They are not the same as the editor…

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