
Media Composer: Working with Still Graphics and Mattes
Give us 30 minutes, and we’ll show you how to take a basic image and create a fantastic new look in your Media Composer project.

Give us 30 minutes, and we’ll show you how to take a basic image and create a fantastic new look in your Media Composer project.

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In this advanced lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how to quickly and easily recreate the “Ken Burns” effect right from within your Media Composer timeline, using the Avid Pan & Zoom effect, located in the “Image” category of the effects palette.

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_70 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how to create the Ken Burns effect, known more commonly as a “Pan & Zoom” effect. This effect, which people will normally create in a compositing application, can be easily created right from within your MC/Symphony timeline with no 3rd party plug-ins needed.

How and why, and when you should use the Avid Pan and Zoom Effect.

Learn how to create the ‘Ken Burns’ effect using the Pan and Zoom feature within Avid Media Composer. You can view a full text based tutorial with screen shots on this same concept by visiting: