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Opacity and built-in effects

Opacity and built-in effects - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

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Opacity and built-in effects

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- [Instructor] I'm going to close up my Effects Library and scroll down the timeline a little bit to a section I have with some stacked clips. And I'm going to go ahead to the timeline view options and just shrink down my audio tracks. And let's even shrink down the video tracks, just so we can barely see the icons. There we go. I'm going to pull this down just a little bit so we get a little bit more real estate. I'm selecting the top clip here. I'd like to point out that under the inspector, we have standard transform tools. Now, not every editorial tool has these built in. But I happen to have things like opacity that I can adjust. I happen to have different composite or blending modes. Choose Darken here, and it provides a kind of neat textured look. Everybody's favorite overlay is here. These are fairly standard and really useful for when you want things to combine. Every graphic compositor I know, everybody who works in motion graphics software, one of their great secrets is to…

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