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Nothing fancy, but a solid workhorse: Want to make sure that your sequence is complying with technical broadcast standards? The Safe Color Limiter Effect is your friend.

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In this episode, we’ll transition into a title by starting with a blur and then slowly letting it focus.

To do this we’ll have to look into how titles actually work, redoing it as a simple Matte Key and then manipulating Key and Fill to achieve out goal. You see, it’s fun for the whole family!

And if you were hoping for Media Composer 5 content: As soon as I get my hands on the new version, there’ll be some. Might take a bit, though, sorry.

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This week’s episode features a request from Youtube user Instantslugger, who wanted to know how to do a curtain transition within Media Composer.

Turns out it’s not that hard. We’ll do it using Avid’s Paint effect and a Matte Key, plus I’ll show you how to make the transition reusable and real-time.

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