Lesson 8

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What you'll learn in this lesson:

  • To apply Track Mattes to video clips to create custom transitions
  • To create a garbage matte to simplify color keying
  • To apply a color key to remove a green screen background

Video Compositing

You can combine video footage together to create a variety of visually appealing and engaging effects.

Starting up

In this lesson, you will work with the project files from the pr081essons folder. Make sure that you have loaded the prlessons folder onto your hard drive from the supplied DVD. The Starting up section at the beginning of this book provides detailed information about loading lesson files, resetting your workspace, locating missing media, and opening the files in CC. If you have not already done so, please review these instructions before starting this lesson.

When opening the Premiere Pro project files used in this lesson you may experience a missing media message. You must locate any missing media before trying to proceed through the lessons. Please refer to “Locating missing media” in the Starting up section of this book.

image See Lesson 8 in action!

Use the accompanying video to gain a better understanding of how to use some of the features shown in this lesson. The video tutorial for this lesson can be found on the included DVD.

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