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Edit Well: Final Cut Studio Techniques from the Pros
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Edit Well: Final Cut Studio Techniques from the Pros

by Larry Jordan
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 57m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 7. Blending the Light Away with Composite Modes

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I’m sure many of you have tried blending images by dropping the opacity on an overlapping clip. It looks OK, but each clip gets a bit dim. Final Cut Pro offers a cool method to blend clips in a better way: These secret weapons are called composite modes. If you’re familiar with transfer modes in Adobe After Effects or Photoshop, then you should have no trouble with composite modes in Final Cut Pro; they behave in precisely the same way. If you’ve never experimented with them, you’ll wonder why you waited so long.

You probably already know that the colors found in video are made up of pixels displaying some combination of red, green, and blue, each with ...

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