06/0813-Lesson Advice: Learning about timeline, browser, sequences, effects, viewer and the canvas

Yellow arrow (play head)- this tells you exactly what frame you are on and informs you of the timecode. If you do not have this above the shot you want to see you will not be able to see what effect you are applying or what you have edited.

Effects Window- click from browser onto the effects tab. This should include video transitions from one shot to the other and when one shot merges into another shot. This is includes things like fade to white, fade to black and many others. The only one we should be using is a cross dissolve or fade in or fade out dissolve. No ammuture video transitions (page curls, flips and stars.) This will also include video filters. THis is things such as blurs, defocus, focus and many others. Each blur would be used for different genres and sub-genres for example soft blur for a romantic type of film. DO NOT FORGET TO DOUBLE CLICK CLIP! THEN MOVE THE PLAY HEAD ON TOP!  and then you can continue editing the blur in the aspects of amount, sides and angles. If you add to many focuses or effects click on it and click delete. Effects we need to know are blur, distort, glow and maybe stylise. Do not use colour correction - too hard. Instead use control and use colour balance, brightness and contrast, levels, sepia and maybe some others.

If your editing does not work, click sequence, render and then render selection. To undo press command Z and then double click on shot. Then just delete anything edited.

Video Generators: if you want a black video to add text on click on matte and then use it as a a file under your sequence. You can then click this and cut/edit just like a normal shot. To add text onto it then click on text also under video generators, under text and then text again.

How to speed up a shot: double click clip, then click motion and then click time remap.